Nevertheless, kudos to you, College Board, for your perspicacity in acknowledging your parochialism and for taking steps to ameliorate your antediluvian test.
This week Lionel watched Being There for the third time: "A film about nonsense passing for political perspicacity that remains eternally germane".
Middlesex is not, however, being universally congratulated for its perspicacity.
True, the almanac does contain a number of insights into the human condition that have never been surpassed for their perspicacity, conciseness and utility.
Mr Bergsten compliments the United States for its perspicacity in forging PTAs that can be opened wider in due course emphasising America's leadership, to be contrasted with the less public-spirited attitudes of the "inward-looking" EU.
Much as I would like to claim credit for my perspicacity in approving production of this movie, I have to admit, in all honesty, that I did everything I could do to prevent it being made.
By the end of World War I, when he was absorbed in the minutiae of publishing exquisite artist books, a labor of love (for which, as always, he turned an eventual profit), Vollard had become stupendously wealthy, despised by some as greedy and ruthless, admired by others for his perspicacity, identified with artists who now defined an era.
That is harsh, but it sounds uncannily close to the mood that has been reported, and recorded, at many of the rallies at which the Republican candidate appeared — deftly massaging the Universal Distrust, brandishing his plume, and even more cannily applauding the crowd for its perspicacity in seeing through the secrets and lies of the establishment.
Zhu Xi's methodology for achieving perspicacity (ming) in ethical judgment and "appropriateness" (yi) in practice can be summed up in his call to investigate things to extend knowledge (gewu zhizhi).
