acumen

• Miller has the acumen -- accumulated at Velocity Interactive, AOL and IAC -- to expand and establish a digital core to leverage and rejuvenate News Corp. 's struggling TV, newspaper and Internet operations. —  Internet Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
• The injustice and absurdity of estimating the talents for investigation and acumen, the skill, and industry, and perseverance of a chemical student, many centuries ago, by the knowledge of the most celebrated men of the present day, and to pronounce all who fell below that standard to have been deficient in natural talents, or in a faithful exercise of them, would be seen and acknowledged by all. —  Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth
• "Herz-Dame" was a person of extraordinary acumen, and a physiognomist of the highest order. —  The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales
• Neither Macaulay nor Carlyle possessed the critical acumen, the taste, ana the cultivated judgment of literary works, in such fullness as Matthew Arnold His greatest contributions to critical literature are the various magazine articles that were collected in the two volumes entitled Essays in Criticism (1865-1888). —  Halleck's New English Literature
• That I had not overrated my acumen was proved by her next in order, which, I was pleased to note, assayed a markedly larger percentage of the milk of human kindness As follows Well, this friend of yours has got here, and I must say that for a friend of yours he seems less sub-human than I had expected. —  Right Ho, Jeeves

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