Sentence examples for keen powers from inspiring English sources

It took keen powers of observation (and didn't really become effective and powerful until statistics were applied a la Nate Silver – in fact, most of today's sophisticated statistical procedures were initially developed to deal with large scale plant breeding).

Just what golden hamsters are using their keen powers of genealogical discrimination for in nature remains unknown.

Rowling's first post-"Harry Potter" novel, a dissection of middle-class life in an outwardly idyllic English town, displays her keen powers of observation.

His keen powers of observation were enhanced by a rich imagination, a feeling for atmosphere, and a broad command of language.

Robert's own work reflected his keen powers of observation, exploring the symbolism inherent in common objects and filling his insatiable appetite for places and their history.

Scientists had predicted that animals might evolve such keen powers of discrimination because they allowed one to reap potentially huge evolutionary benefits.

Perhaps no one has keener powers of observation than a child.

Ms. Mann's stripped-down script often has a keener power than traditional productions, even for theatergoers who normally believe that making art accessible necessarily means dumbing it down.

If children were constrained by skillfulness rather than by size, they said, then the differences between adults and children should show up in measures of success in fishing tasks requiring keen cognitive powers, and they did not.

But the excerpts that others have published show that the frequent contact — thirty-three letters in a few years is a lot, considering the circumstances — led to a warm relationship between the two men, and that even these business letters were marked by Rimbaud's humor and keen descriptive powers.

As an experienced parent, I draw on my keen observational powers.