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acute vision
Definition
sharp (highly perceptive in some area or mentally sharp)
(often with a connotation that resulting awareness is painful)
(often with a connotation that resulting awareness is painful)
- But she said it with a hesitation that did not escape the acuteness of the child.Chapter 6 -- Pearl (93% in)
acuteness = intelligence (sharpness or high perceptiveness)
There are no more uses of "acute" flagged with this meaning in The Scarlet Letter.
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- Sad, indeed, that an introspection so profound and acute as this poor minister's should be so miserably deceived!Chapter 20 -- The Minister in a Maze (14% in)
- His gifts were emphatically those of a man of business; prompt, acute, clear-minded; with an eye that saw through all perplexities, and a faculty of arrangement that made them vanish as by the waving of an enchanter's wand.Introductory (50% in)
- If, heretofore, I had been none of the warmest of partisans I began now, at this season of peril and adversity, to be pretty acutely sensible with which party my predilections lay; nor was it without something like regret and shame that, according to a reasonable calculation of chances, I saw my own prospect of retaining office to be better than those of my democratic brethren.Introductory (92% in)
- It was immediately responded to by a light, airy, childish laugh, in which, with a thrill of the heart—but he knew not whether of exquisite pain, or pleasure as acute—he recognised the tones of little Pearl.Chapter 12 -- The Minister's Vigil (47% in)
- But now the idea came strongly into Hester's mind, that Pearl, with her remarkable precocity and acuteness, might already have approached the age when she could have been made a friend, and intrusted with as much of her mother's sorrows as could be imparted, without irreverence either to the parent or the child.Chapter 15 -- Hester and Pearl (70% in)
- "Doth he love us?" said Pearl, looking up with acute intelligence into her mother's face.Chapter 19 -- The Child at the Brookside (84% in)
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