acuteness

Example Sentences

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A bout of weepy swooning, marveling at the acuteness of an aspartame-induced diet soda headache, was a bracing warning that even joy could be distractingly paralyzing.

From Washington Post • Mar. 11, 2022

Those confidentiality interests the executive seeks to shield from disclosure must be weighed against the acuteness of congressional need.

From Slate • Feb. 14, 2019

And I think that the acuteness of that anger is embodied in that emotional response to the news cycle is present, definitely present in some way in the pilot.

From Salon • Aug. 23, 2018

Albee may never have been able to summon the emotional openness to match Williams’s honesty, grotesque comedy and lyricism, nor the political commitment to match Miller’s state-of-the-nation acuteness, but he was no also-ran.

From The Guardian • Sep. 18, 2016

She looked at trie with a kind of fresh acuteness.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger