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Another person bought a word that wasn't in the text just because they liked it so much: "perspicacity".
Thirty-odd years ago, it didn't require all that much perspicacity to see that the Vietnam War could not be won or could not be won at a remotely acceptable cost in blood and treasure, which amounts to the same thing.
It doesn't take much perspicacity to see that where sexual activity -- from masturbation to extramarital activity -- is suppressed, women and girls bear much more of the cost than men and boys.
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Other recent graduates recall the loan details with much less perspicacity.
Instinct is involved, surely as much as perspicacity, in sifting through the mass of observation and anecdote.
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.
Much as I would like to claim credit for my perspicacity in approving production of this movie, I have to admit, in all honesty, that I did everything I could do to prevent it being made.
With the perspicacity that would lead him to become, arguably, our greatest postwar playwright, Williams had pretty much hit the nail on the head.
His prose stinks of perspicacity.
Her perspicacity, and her strong convictions — a forcefulness distilled from her latent Presbyterianism — made her a valuable commodity, literally so: Ford famously hired her to name its much anticipated new model for the year 1958.
Posterity has confirmed Beethoven's perspicacity.
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