keenness

So the claim of responsibility while the perpetrators were still at large is unusual, and indicates keenness on IS's part to confirm its role.

Those of us who aren’t artists come here for them, too — their energy, ideas, ambition, scrappiness and keenness are what give this city its inimitable character.

The man responsible for that formative experience is the author’s father, Ronnie, a notorious con man who is this film’s shadow subject, his schemes and on-the-run existence priming his love-deprived boy for an alertness to deception and a keenness about lives that prioritize performance and secrets over reality and loyalty.

And the brothers’ keenness on following “Talk to Me” with future features is clear.

“We support what the Lebanese government is doing to impose law and order and we affirm our keenness on Lebanon’s sovereignty, including Palestinian refugee camps, and maintaining security and law,” the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, said in his statement.