21 adjectives to describe acumen

Baumer's work (translated into French by Biron) is a work showing wonderful industry, learning and critical acumen.

As a mere exhibition of dialectical acumen, minute distinctions, and logical precision in the use of words, it was wonderful.

Few letters in our language can compare with these for incisive but kindly and gentle irony; innocent but genuine fun; keen and striking acumen, and tender melancholy.

in logical acumen and sprightly wit.

Joseph Casey, a broker of considerable acumen, also accumulated desirable property, worth probably $75,000.

It could easily be proved that many of these voices are very rude; but it would take more philological acumen than was possessed by Horne Tooke to prove that any of them are without "signification."

A true heart, a generous nature, a broad mind, and keen mental acumen are qualities that do not die with their possessor; they bless the world to which she has gone and that she left behind.

And, although we can't quite sympathise with his suggestion that detachments of sappers and miners be employed in the spring-time, in Arctic (and doubtless also Antarctic) regions, in blowing up icebergs and otherwise facilitating the operations of old Sol, we give the ingenious Frenchman credit for at least as much philosophic acumen as we ourselves possess: and Heaven only knows how superb a compliment we thus convey!

"In regard to the application of the final pause in reading blank verse, nothing can betray a greater want of rhetorical taste and philosophical acumen, than the directions of Mr. Murray.

" For a green, inexperienced youth, he spoke with rare acumen, thought Mr. Merrick; but the old gentleman had now determined to shield the boy from a forced declaration of his finances, so he said: "My nieces can hardly afford to accept your proposition.

And the passage, which I am about to give, is very remarkable as an instance of the singular acumen, insight, and power of sympathy which enabled him to form so accurately correct an opinion on a matter of which he might be supposed to know nothing.

On the other hand, wherever refinement, tenderness, delicacy, sprightliness, spiritual acumen, and force, are to the fore, there the feminine ideal is represented, and these terms will be found nearly enough for all practical purposes to represent the differing endowments of actual men and women.

But on Wednesday I happened in a strange wayat Bristol, my lord, whither but for that abduction I might never have gone in my lifeon a discovery, which by my client's direction I am here to communicate.' 'Do you mean, sir,' the Earl said with sudden acumen, a note of keen surprise in his voice, 'that you are hereto abandon your claim?' 'My client's claim,' the attorney answered with a sorrowful look.

I read it once as a theologianand let me assure you, there is great theological acumen in the workonce with devotional feelings, and once as a poet.

It spoke well for my botanical acumen that I had recognized them at all.

" "Then," I continued, "perhaps you have found a prince of the church, pale as alabaster, sitting in his red robe, who put together the indicatory evidence of the crime that baffled you with such uncanny acumen that you stood aghast at his perspicacity?" "No," he said; and then his face lighted.

From these two pieces of evidence Boissevain with customary acumen concludes that Dio's original words were probably: "whom some name Livilla, and others Livia.

The most important and serious essay in this direction is a little book of great interest and almost hypercritical acumen published recently at Naples.

Troops measure their leaders with instinctive acumen, and a very astonishing accuracy.

In his personal appearance he made a fine impression,over six feet in height, with a frank and open countenance, but not expressive of intellectual acumen.

Here were girls who possessed something infinitely higher than journalistic acumen; they were true women, with genuine womanly qualities and natures that betrayed their worth at a glance, as do ingots of refined gold.

21 adjectives to describe  acumen