Here Sheehan is most sagacious.
"Don't worry," said that most sagacious and influential member of the quartet, "I'll talk him round".
He compared the glistening and gothically tentacled sundew plant, or Drosera, to a "most sagacious animal" and said, "I will stick up for Drosera to the day of my death". To which a sagacious sundew might well have replied, Thanks, but I'll take a damselfly instead.
He was also one of the most sagacious, uncompromising and punctilious archbishops of All England, a quiet-mannered family man who wore the purple amethyst on his ring finger humbly.
No great musician, however, was ever understood at once; and, in regard to such musicians as Beethoven, for example, the most sagacious critics have found themselves aridly committed by opinions hastily expressed.
O'Hara, one of the Giants' most sagacious players, did eventually concede that the game probably hinged on the Giants' physical play early, when the line and the running backs overpowered the Ravens.
FaceTime also meant that I was spared having to visit her so often, as she well understood: "Does this mean that you're not coming over tonight because we're speaking with my iPad?" My mother, for all her deficits, was among the most sagacious people I have known.
Rather, it's that when the spotlight isn't on Limbaugh, and when his excesses aren't front-and-center and thus impossible to deny, too many conservatives — including not just finger-in-the-wind politicians, but some of the country's most sagacious conservative intellectuals — are weirdly reluctant to acknowledge that there are any valid critiques of him at all.
Going Sane by Adam Phillips 256pp, Hamish Hamilton, £14.99 Not so very long ago that most sagacious of literary critics, Frank Kermode, said that we were ready for the adjective "Phillipsian" - derived, of course, from Adam Phillips's growing body of work, mostly collections of essays so agile and exuberant in their performance of thought that jumping in is irresistible.
And so, the island nation has established Churchill 2015, tailoring a dozen tourist attractions to honor perhaps the 20th century's most sagacious and colorful leader, and to teach visitors about him and his time.
She was the safest, most conventional choice.
