Generational divides are nothing new, but in Poland they can be acute.
But for those who do not make the grade, the sense of loss can be acute.
The temptation to pull up stakes can be acute for city dwellers whose work gives them some mobility.
At times, his insights can be acute, at others far-fetched and almost outrageously fanciful.
Erosions and ulcers can be acute or chronic according to how readily they heal.
Nothing is ever as bad as it first seems: the highs and lows of social enterprise, particularly as a founder, can be acute.
The tension in South Korea between reliance on China's economy and America's armed forces can be acute.
It is rarer for a battle to break out in a tiny spot like Alfred, despite financial strains that can be acute.
Both big cap-and-trade schemes in existence today Europe's Emissions-Trading Scheme for carbon and America's market for trading sulphur-dioxide permits (to reduce acid rain)— suggest this volatility can be acute.
And when a diagnosis is missed – when a student proceeds directly into college coursework and fails, or when someone's cancer is detected too late – the mistake is plainly visible, and the associated regret can be acute.
As the world goes through what scientists have called its "sixth great extinction", with animal species vanishing at a rate unheralded since the dinosaurs were wiped out 66 million years ago, the sense of helplessness can be acute among those who revere nature.
