acuter

• “Similarly, the 22 month-long oil scarcity in Nepal has now got far acuter than ever before.”

  Nepal Government Missing?

• “The reason is clear: they do not spend their resources on lessening human pain but making it further acuter.”

  South Asian Perspectives on Global Terrorism

• “Now the oil shortage has become far acuter than it was 22 months ago.”

  Nepal under regressive mafia rule

• “But of this the great majority have no feeling, but are merely hireling and professorial; except when it occasionally happens that some workman of acuter wit and covetous of honor applies himself to a new invention, which he mostly does at the expense of his fortunes.”

  The New Organon

• “But were our senses altered, and made much quicker and acuter, the appearance and outward scheme of things would have quite another face to us; and, I am apt to think, would be inconsistent with our being, or at least well-being, in this part of the universe which we inhabit.”

  God, Aids & Circumcision

• “Wait a bit," said the acuter intelligence of Jemmy Vetch.”

  For the term of his natural life

• “Adeline had no retrospect of past delight to give emphasis to present calamity — no weeping friends — no dear regretted objects to point the edge of sorrow, and throw a sickly hue upon her future prospects: she knew not yet the pangs of disappointed hope, or the acuter sting of self-accusation; she had no misery, but what patience could assuage, or fortitude overcome.”

  The Romance of the Forest

• “How one should solve this, is clear: for the word does not mean the same when spoken with an acuter and when spoken with a graver accent.”

  On Sophistical Refutations

• “For they solve the difficulty by a change of accent, pronouncing the ou with an acuter accent.”

  On Sophistical Refutations

• “And under her sense of the collective indifference came the acuter pang of hopes deceived.”

  Simon & Schuster: The House of Mirth

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