Sentence examples for and perspicacity from inspiring English sources

Impressed by his diligence and perspicacity, Anger's masters appointed him second secretary at the Swedish legation in Budapest, a position he took up on November 26 1942.

I would also contend that Conrad prized moral intensity and perspicacity as much as Leavis, even if he did not believe in abstract moral principles.

An incisive investor and passionate outdoorsman, Bruce will be remembered for the wisdom and perspicacity that he shared with his family, business associates, and friends.

Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Training and Supervising Analyst at the NYU Psychoanalytic Institute, he was a gifted teacher, known for his pithiness and perspicacity.

It's bemusing that within the last few days two books that promise to deliver the wisdom of two men celebrated for their economic and business prescience and perspicacity received bids so large that many are questioning the fiscal prescience and perspicacity of the publishers who offered the money.

Wullschlager writes with extraordinary clarity and perspicacity about Andersen's productions, relating them to his life and to the culture of the age, but also standing back to reveal their universal, timeless qualities.

As Will Self wrote in the Guardian last weekend: "We can wax all we like about the importance of the traditional gatekeepers and the perspicacity of editors and critics in separating out the literary wheat from the pulpy chaff, but the fact is that these professions depend on the physical book as a commodity".

No other contemporary playwright has explored the nasty ways in which fathers and sons construct each other — and then smash the models — with such vibrancy and intellectual perspicacity.

Their value lies in their freshness and the perspicacity of Maisky's comments about the English.

For all his posturing and self-importance, Scott is capable of deliberate self-parody, generosity of spirit and some perspicacity, for instance, about the talents of Jane Austen.

It should go without saying that Duke; the University of California, Berkeley; and, next term, Harvard, are offering courses on the series, seminars focused not merely on the sophistication of its storytelling but also on its sociological and political perspicacity.