Blake Crouch

I love taking a character and raining holy hell down on them and seeing how they respond, how they react. It's one of the things I do in almost all my books - my protagonist is put through a very stressful situation that tests their strength and their psychological acuity. That's one of the core components of who I am as a writer.

American Author

Walter Kirn

To young people born under the weird planet of the SAT, intelligence was equated with agility, with raw acuity. It produced a certain sort of person of which I was a typical specimen: the mental contortionist, able to rise to almost every challenge placed before him, except the challenge of real self-knowledge.

American Novelist

Richard Corliss

We all recall what is or was important to us and are astonished when it slips other people's minds. Perhaps we dismiss as irrelevant matters of crucial concern to those we love. That's life as most of us experience it, and which few movies document with such understated acuity as 'Boyhood' does.

American Writer

Bryce Courtenay

I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on and that you were gifted with and lose the gifts that were given.

South African Novelist

Has any movie captured a moment in social, let alone musical, history with as much acuity and joy as 'A Hard Day's Night'?

Yannick Bisson

I find biking challenges so many aspects of health that are important for longevity, acuity, and mental health.

Deborah Eisenberg

I suppose I'm always looking for a sort of acuity of perception either in my characters or about my characters.

Acuity also means quickness and cleverness in understanding or insight, not just sensory sharpness.

Beyond Sensory

Used metaphorically, acuity can describe a situation or idea's clarity, not only a person's ability.

Figurative Use

'Acuity' is a neutral term, often used in both formal and informal settings without an emotional charge.

Neutral Tone

In medical contexts, 'acuity' often indicates urgency or severity, especially related to patient conditions.

Medical Specificity

Here, acuity refers to fast brain processing, like in learning new skills or making decisions.

Mental Quickness

Acuity, particularly mental or sensory, can decrease with age; this is a common topic in medical discussions.

Decline with Age

'Acuity' in optometry indicates the exactness of vision, meaning how well one can discern fine details.

Vision Precision

Visual acuity is often measured by reading letters on a Snellen chart, which many find familiar.

Measure with Chart

Visual acuity affects abilities like reading or driving, making it a term often encountered in everyday contexts.

Impacts Daily Life

 we were able to see that the neurons of the dragonfly fired when we moved the target in one direction but not the other. Now, why is that? Remember when I said that the dragonfly had near 360-degree vision. Well, there's a section of the eye called the fovea and this is the part that has the sharpest visual acuity,

How a dragonfly's brain...

 of an elite, talented body. And yet, ladies and gentlemen, every single one of us on this planet probably engages with music on a daily basis. And if I can broaden this out for a second, I'm willing to bet that every single one of you sitting in this room would be happy to speak with acuity, with total confidence,

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 Those skills are useful. Those skills can save lives. Doctors, nurses, and law enforcement agents can use painting, sculpture, and photography as tools to improve their visual acuity and communication skills, which are critical during investigations and emergencies. If you're treating an injury,

How art can help you...

 body and yet ladies and gentlemen every single one of us on this planet probably engages with music on a daily basis and if I can broaden this out for a second I'm willing to bet that every single one of you sitting in this room would be happy to speak with acuity with total

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 But the corollary of that is that, if we all are brothers and sisters and share the same genetic material, all human populations share the same raw human genius, the same intellectual acuity. And so whether that genius is placed into -- technological wizardry

Wade Davis: The...

 With this drone setup, we show the potential for bedridden people to once again be able to explore the outside world, and robotics will eventually provide a level playing field where one is only limited by their mental acuity and imagination,

Henry Evans and Chad...

 I had no mental acuity to speak of during the day, but I had flexible hours. In the Brooklyn neighborhood that I lived in, Park Slope, there are a lot of writers -- it's like a very high per capita ratio of writers to normal people.

Dave Eggers: 2008 TED...

 the frontal and parietal lobes, which have to do with visual acuity, 3D understanding, and structural problem solving, so it helps develop their visualization skills and their predictive ability.

Gever Tulley: 5...

 because your brain fills it in from context. Also, the edges of our retinas have relatively few receptors for any wavelength light. So our visual acuity and ability to see color

Eye vs. camera - Michael...

 So, we modified the optics of the camera in order to mimic the baby's visual acuity. As some of you might know, babyies are born pretty much legally blind.