Sentence examples for keen by from inspiring English sources
If anything, the current crop of freshman novelists has been too keen, by and large, to create a watertight contrast between teller and tale.
It was shock resistant and chip-proof, good qualities for use in the ax, adz, and chisel, and the edges could be kept keen by hammering or abrasion; its sharpness was, however, inferior to that of good stone.
Keen: By all means, no! Keen: Of both, but mostly of structure, I would say.
At least this is one horror I don't have to worry about coming to rest in my lap.' That may sound cold, but having nearly died so many times during the drug years, my instinct for my own survival was now very keen". By 1983, "confident that the 10-year nightmare of addiction was over," wrote Davis, Susan gave birth to Alexandra, "the joy of our lives". "I was working again," he wrote.
But he's keener by far to talk about the places where their inner lives intersect.
No celebrities keened by his bedside, no theatrics unfolded in the hall; there was no last touch of the fabulous.
In the mid-80's there were several periods of anguish for Sakharov's family in Newton, an anguish made keener by distance.
He describes in some detail Mao's personal competitiveness with Khrushchev — made keener by China's abject dependence on the Soviet Union for loans and expert guidance — and his obsession with developing a uniquely Chinese model of socialist modernity.
rrThe debate over the use of Lasix, the trade name for the diuretic furosemide, has been made keener by the publication earlier this month of a study commissioned by the Jockey Club in 1988.
The burden of leadership is made keener by the fact that you are free to make poor choices: enter a battle in which you are vastly outnumbered and your troops will fall.
And there was a weave of voices: Yoruba chants by the Cuban singer Martha Galarraga, Arabic keening by the Moroccan singer Yassir Chadly, and performance poetry -- to call it rapping is a stretch -- by the Oakland-based Brutha Los.
