Ex-act-ly, pre-cisely: with your usual acuteness, you have hit the nail straight on the head.
Quotes about acuteness (8 Quotes)
But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But words turn and twist the understanding. This it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences inactive. Words are mostly cut to the common fashion and draw the distinctions which are most obvious to the common understanding. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true distinctions of nature, words complain.
I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
. . . for the stress of circumstances, Fred felt, was sharpening his acuteness and endowing him with all the constructive power of suspicion.
I enjoy the acuteness of situations. I enjoy treating patients and not waiting. I like to be able to have my patients under my hand. I feel bad when they go home. I want to know what's going on. I want to call them the next day and make sure everything is OK.
Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation but they have no power of abstraction, no general standard of taste, or scale of opinion. They see their objects always near, and never in the horizon. Hence arises that egotism which has been remarked as the characteristic of self-taught men.
But my mind clung to my wife's image, imagining it with an uncanny acuteness. I heard her answering me, saw her smile, her frank and encouraging look. Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise.
Alex is an experienced NHL player who has had a lot of different experience here in North America and with his Russian national team and is capable of having an impact in a high-competition game. I think he's enjoying the atmosphere of the Stanley Cup playoffs, with its heightened awareness and acuteness of competition.