While in public life Conkling always attracted attention by his abilities, his keenness and eloquence in debate, his aggressive leadership and his striking personality.
But he writes with keenness and wit, and knows well how to use the materials already often taken advantage of by earlier deists.
It was all a little sad, especially so, given Triumph's keenness to get the dolomite onto the market.
She professed her keenness " to remove the elitism of the names used in the Upper Chamber " .
Destitute of natural oratorical gifts and somewhat ungainly in his manner, he attracted and even riveted the attention of his audience by a rare combination of intellectual keenness, emotional fervour, spiritual insight and power of dramatic representation of character and life.
