acute

• I could only explain it to myself by saying that his impulse to fly at once from the scene of his disgrace was very acute, and therefore he resisted it, made up his mind not to budge, and so he sat there the butt of the derisive glances and whispered talk of everyone who came into the club in the next two or three hours. —  Oscar Wilde
• The latter writer is an acute, alert, industrious, and picturesque comparer of his own and a neighboring country, and is accompanied by a light battery of literary and pictorial criticism, detached from his heavier home armament. —  A Study Of Hawthorne
• That very evening my headache became acute, and I was seized with a strange shivering which lasted all night. —  The Story of a Soul
• His argument on topics of less absurdity is specious and acute, his manner is lively, his style forcible and clear; and, had not his vigorous mind been clouded by enthusiasm, he might be ranked with the most agreeable and ingenious writers of the times. —  Memoirs of My Life and Writings
• During the battles of the Wilderness, acute was the trepidation in Washington, where no news had come since a couple of days — Grant having —  The Lincoln Story Book

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