A quick and penetrating intelligence.
A positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something.
1 The bread-and-butter was arrested in her hand in the keenness of listening.
2 The keenness and the constructive genius of the individual count for much.
3 Having in mind the keenness of desert-bred stock, he watched the horse.
4 This sacristan has that simple keenness which is a rarity in Venice.
5 There was keenness about the exclamation which almost amounted to actual dislike.
6 They pounced upon the floating merchandise with the keenness of regular wreckers.
7 Her father was dead; but her brother inherited some of his keenness .
8 She has a keenness of observation which astonishes me; nothing escapes her.
9 His headache had departed; his every sense seemed to have gained keenness .
10 He watched with a keenness of interest which betokened a dawning idea.
11 And his look searched my thoughts with the keenness of a dagger.
12 The German officers at once exhibited a most un-Teutonic keenness about sea-fishing.
13 In keenness of observation he has been equalled, though perhaps never surpassed.
14 His eyes of almost preternatural keenness had recognized one of the figures.
15 Exhausted by the keenness of his affliction Jemshíd at length fell asleep.
16 The novelty of my enjoyment had doubtless added much to its keenness .
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