Sentence examples for moral sagacity from inspiring English sources

If the "Julia letters" exhibit a good deal of political and moral sagacity, they are also underpinned by a sad sort of longing.

He has unquestioning faith in the righteousness and goodness of America, in the sagacity and moral probity of the founding fathers and the God-given destiny of a nation he says "is the most compassionate on the face of the earth".

The exercise of discretion and judgment along with the development of sagacity is not arbitrary, a-moral, aprioristic or free from any normative considerations concerning how one should act.

In Volume III Sterne's narrator says, "You will no more be able to penetrate the moral of the next marbled page (motly emblem of my work!) than the world with all its sagacity has been able to unravel the many opinions, transactions and truths which still lie mystically hid under the dark veil of the black one".

Call it the sagacity of hope.

He brings sagacity to the court.

PMs have marvelled at her sagacity.

Stanford continued to speak of his financial sagacity.

Keynes's sagacity and wit shifted public opinion.

McEwan, as ever, writes with tenderness and sagacity.

Mr Lincoln, by a rare combination of qualities patience, sagacity, and honesty by a still more rare sympathy, not with the best of his nation but the best average of his nation, and by a moderation rarest of all, had attained such vast moral authority that he could make all the hundred wheels of the Constitution move in one direction without exerting any physical force.