At 65 he has seen all there is to see in the game, and he brings to the piece a welcome sagacity.
'Riot Van', ostensibly a laddish account of 'winding coppers up', is underpinned by an observational sagacity.
We would be drunk all our lives,' Pablo says, adopting a tone of sagacity to make a basic point about his own needs.
It's a good story, marred only by moments of jejune men's-magazine sagacity: "A shipwreck gave a man limitless opportunity to know himself if only he cared to find out".
and directly from Latin prudentia "a foreseeing, foresight, sagacity, practical judgment," contraction of providentia "foresight" (see providence).
Robert Coover, in one of his early novellas, writes about a political fixer who, back when he was a congressman, had the sagacity to foresee his own electoral defeat against a "young tight-lipped challenger": You see, I am blessed — or damned, as you will — with puffy pink lips.
He could read a situation with uncanny sagacity; his editor for many years, Paul Webster, recalled him as "a rare combination of intellectual and foot-in-the-door hack.
They therefore view successful integration of all princely states into India as a triumph for the Government of India and Lord Mountbatten, and as a tribute to the sagacity of the majority of princes, who jointly achieved in a few months what the Empire had attempted, unsuccessfully, to do for over a century—unite all of India under one rule.
But he differs from them in the ruminative and sensitive qualities of his work, which suggest at once the sagacity of an old mind and the vulnerability of a young heart.
Lovingly packaged and designed, "Yes Is the Answer" is a paper treehouse for gentlemen of a certain age, a safe place to embrace a shared teenage fantasy of adult sagacity they can now re-access as an adult fantasy of innocent youth.
