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Lawyers remembered his ability to grasp complicated criminal law procedures and make acute strategy suggestions at his trials.

Transgressive artists and comedians have an age-old tradition of violating the first kind of politeness in order to say what they feel needs to be said, but only recently have both been called upon to make acute distinctions between this and the second kind of politeness.

Scrupulously faithful to the complexities of the score, the work's capricious phrasing and sudden direction changes make acute demands of its dancers, to which, in the first movement, Arancha Baselga and James Barton are not always equal, although the spirit is clearly willing.

Every natural influence conspired to make acute to me the warning whisper of my soul, which flashed the caution as I crossed the gang-plank, "Watch out!"

In opposition to these, the Apostle here lays down the broad principle that God has spoken, not in order to make acute theologians, or to provide materials for controversy, but in order to help us to love.