keenness

His speech fired the people with keenness for the plan.

A good teacher should be able to infect his students with his own keenness for his subject.

to show keenness in learning new skills

to demonstrate keenness in pursuing goals

to have a keenness for details

keenness in exploring new opportunities

to express keenness in trying new experiences

to possess a keenness for innovation

keenness in understanding different cultures

She gives the knife a human quality, the quality of keenness.

Appetite is the keenness of living.

" No; none. Have you" she retorted, repeating her former phrase with an added keenness of intention.

Before they had proceeded many rods, the Indians stopped, and appeared to gaze at some signs on the earth with more than their usual keenness.

Now, however, that the charming object of his distraction was out of sight he could deliberate, and measure, and weigh things with some approach to keenness.

It is a memory that gives a more exquisite touch to tenderness, that feeds the madness of jealousy and adds the last keenness to the agony of despair.

And Lupin, in a rapid view, with prodigious keenness of outlook, saw the long array of bloodthirsty adventures and guessed the mysterious paths which Dolores had pursued.

She felt as if she never could sleep again; as if her whole senses were acutely vital, and all endued with double keenness, for the purposes of watching.

This keenness of corner was only blunted when she was given over to sudden fits of gloom, one of the phases of the night-side of sentiment which she knew too well for her years.

Instead of watching the transports which he was bringing into existence, and those pangs of remorse which only set their keenness into fuller relief, the idea of duty was continually before his eyes.