Sentence examples for made more acute from inspiring English sources

"The awareness was certainly made more acute," he said.

"Love is made more acute when it requires exertion".

That invisibility is palpable, and made more acute by the silence of the putative leaders.

Two centuries later, we still grapple with these questions - questions made more acute in moments of crisis.

The situation has just been made more acute this year by the procrastination and unease of European leaders.

The growing irritation is perhaps made more acute because the economy is displaying its first signs of vitality since 1997.

This puts a curious distance between us and most of the characters in the film — it makes us, in effect, Susie's fellow ghosts — a detachment that Mr. Jackson's stylish, busy technique makes more acute.

Another is descriptive: "hone in" is an improvement on "home in," enjoying the connotations of the verb "to hone" (Web 11) — "to make more acute, intense, or effective (helped her hone her comic timing to perfection — Patricia Bosworth)"; that is to say, to home in sharply.

One is prescriptive: "hone in" is an error for "home in". Another is descriptive: "hone in" is an improvement on "home in," enjoying the connotations of the verb "to hone" (Web 11)—"to make more acute, intense, or effective (helped her hone her comic timing to perfection Patricia Bosworth)"; that is to say, to home in sharply.

In modern English, it can also mean "to make more acute, intense or effective," according to Merriam-Webster's.

Such is the modern, populist anxiety of a serious, talented, highbrow writer - an anxiety now made infinitely more acute by wild commercial success.