keenness

How To Use keenness In A Sentence

• At the end, I was greatly impressed by the smartness and keenness of all of them, and by the firmness and intelligence of their questions.
• By the warmth of his greeting, his natural considerateness and the keenness of his intelligence -- which made his wit so sharp -- he was a delight to be with. A Heavenly Collaboration: Dizzy Gillespie and Dr. Jazz
• They held their peavies across their bodies as balancing-poles, and zig-zagged ashore with a calmness and lack of haste that were in reality only an indication of the keenness with which they fore-estimated each chance. Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day
• The problem is to assess how much of his vision he owed to his elevation, to his position in history and to the work of his predecessors and contemporaries, and how much to the keenness of his own sight.
• Lord Rochester's frolics in the character of a mountebank are well known, and the speech which he made upon the occasion of his first turning itinerant doctor, has been often printed; there is in it a true spirit of satire, and a keenness of lampoon, which is very much in the character of his lordship, who had certainly an original turn for invective and satirical composition. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland
• The only objection he had to make was that the stretta of the second finale was too abrupt, a criticism which proved his keenness of perception; and I was able to show him, by the score, how I had been compelled, much against my inclination, to curtail the opera, and thereby create the position to which he had taken exception. My Life — Volume 1
• The Northland gives a keenness and zest to the blood which cannot be obtained in warmer climes. CHAPTER 8
• His speech fired the people with keenness for the plan.
• The Congress veteran, K. Karunakaran's passion for politics is matched only by his keenness for keeping in the pink of health.
• The loss of the original keenness (dressed keenness) of the tool cutting edge and the outer comers in the process of cutting is called dulling, its result is called wear. 6. Basic Terms of Cutting