Sentence examples for sharp attentiveness from inspiring English sources

In fact, Mr. Schivelbusch's epilogue, with its cursory examination of recent events after 9/11, would have benefited from the same sharp attentiveness found in his three case histories of catastrophic defeats: the surrender of the South after the Civil War, the routing of France in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71, and the capitulation of Germany after the First World War.

Attentiveness is a human state, and our reserves of attention are finite.

They dramatize sheer attentiveness.

Silent attentiveness was expected.

Beware unusual attentiveness.

It may also promote attentiveness.

His attentiveness has been reciprocated.

Bellow accepted the proffer of adulatory attentiveness.

So is exaggerated attentiveness to props.

Tayyab speaks quietly, with courtly attentiveness.

Her family's attentiveness was equally evident.