Sentence Examples

1. He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, of hieroglyphics exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension præternatural.
2. For a man who was never in the country, and who did not evidently do much in the way of business, his knowledge and acumen were wonderful.
3. Navarrete has done all that industry and acumen could do, and it is no fault of his if he has not given us what we want.
4. He was almost universally loved in the House, and not just because of his business acumen.
5. Sometimes, ascending hills, when the winded horse breathed hard from his red nostrils, and heaved his flanks, the captain, left to more freedom of thought, reflected on the prodigious genius of Aramis, a genius of acumen and intrigue, a match to which the Fronde and the civil war had produced but twice.
6. The Parisian police, so much extolled for acumen, are cunning, but no more.
7. In draughts, on the contrary, where the moves are unique and have but little variation, the probabilities of inadvertence are diminished, and the mere attention being left comparatively unemployed, what advantages are obtained by either party are obtained by superior acumen.
8. She had worked her way through high school and college, finding and loving a man who was equally devoid of rich relatives or business acumen.
9. The wild disorder of the room the corpse thrust, with the head downward, up the chimney the frightful mutilation of the body of the old lady these considerations, with those just mentioned, and others which I need not mention, have sufficed to paralyze the powers, by putting completely at fault the boasted acumen, of the government agents.