keen sense
collocation in Englishmeaningsofkeenandsense
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keen
adjective
uk/kiːn/us/kiːn/
very interested, eager, or wanting (to do) something ...
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sense
noun
uk/sens/us/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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(Definition ofkeenandsensefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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His ' ' unimpressed ' ' visitors therefore left with a ' 'keensenseof disappointment ' ' (65, 60).
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On every level the edition is a model of meticulousness and authority, allied to akeensenseof practical musicianship.
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He retained hiskeensensethat one of the most important tasks of education was the preservation of democracy.
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He showed akeensenseof how to manage diverse organisational units in terms of effectiveness and efficiency.
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Farjeon, however, had not worked through his solutions that deeply nor had he akeensenseof irony.
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Alexander, who was to have a successful career as an army engineer, retained akeensenseof his debt.
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He spent endless hours with his students, providing them with guidance and attention balanced with akeensenseof knowing when to let students learn from their struggles.
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Further, such a creature might have akeensenseof smell, and be able to discriminate between thousands of categorically different smells assailing its smell organ.
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They have shown akeensenseof appreciation of the issues at stake in this directive, reducing the number of amendments to 15.
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Not all of them have anykeensenseof history or any special care or knowledge of the arts.
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Working-class people have akeensenseof humour.
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The parents have akeensenseof the advantage of education, and they send their children in every way they can.
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If he also feels that he is being unfairly treated in comparison with his neighbour, akeensenseof injustice is created.
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One of them delighted me particularly because it showed akeensenseof humour.
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He usually manifests akeensenseof humour, but for the moment it has forsaken him.
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True they will do what they can to work it, but they will do so with akeensenseof an abiding injustice.
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It is no exaggeration to say that most young adults have akeensenseof justice.
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She must also have akeensenseof irony!
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The first is a verykeensenseof humour and the second is impartiality of mind.
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