If a government fails, the sagacious ayatollah will be seen as indispensable to the establishment of a new one.Mr Khamenei's professed agnosticism about Mr Rohani's diplomatic forays could be an insurance policy against their failure.
Yet even in India, attitudes are changing.Manmohan Singh, its sagacious prime minister, has formed a powerful council of ministers, bureaucrats, scientists and businessmen to co-operate on the issue.
Mark Twain, described by Mr Schrecker as "a close friend" of the ambassador, wrote a paean to him in Horace Greely's New York Tribune, calling Burlingame "quick, sagacious" and "one of the ablest diplomats America has produced".
In each case, the investigator concerned was sagacious enough to link various seemingly unrelated facts together to come up with a valuable conclusion.
Against the sagacious Mr Singh, Mr Advani is an economic illiterate.
With his smiling, sad eyes, sagacious enthusiasm and constant references to Judaic texts, Solomon Galkin is rendered in broad strokes, a caricature of the Noble Jew.
"Some of the comments, compared with the actual facts, were found not to be so sagacious as they were supposed to be".
The Dalai Lama sometimes frustrates people who ask big questions in the hope of eliciting sagacious answers.
Mr Assad, a sagacious fellow, is keeping his options open.
He later portrayed a sagacious rancher in the inspirational golf drama Seven Days in Utopia (2011), a shooting-range owner in the action movie Jack Reacher (2012), and a judge accused of vehicular homicide in The Judge (2014).
As good as Bogart was in depicting Dobbs's descent into madness, most critics believed that he was out-acted by Walter Huston as the grizzled, sagacious Howard, who tries in vain to keep greed from consuming the little treasure-seeking band.
