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Discover LudwigThe phrase "perspicacity about" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when discussing someone's keen insight or understanding regarding a particular subject or issue.
Example: "Her perspicacity about market trends has made her an invaluable asset to the team."
Alternatives: "insight into" or "understanding of"
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(True, Vince Cable has earned esteem for his relative perspicacity about the crash, but that has not yet been translated into support for the Liberal Democrats).
It's rare that human beings develop this level of perspicacity about themselves, particularly when the insight they are making refers to the absence rather than a presence of characterological attributes.
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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.
Your coworker is disrespecting boundaries laid down by the employer and seeks to undermine the rationale behind having varied personalities and skills in the workplace, showing a marked lack of perspicacity and intelligence about the inter-relational aspect of work.
The more articles you don't see the point of, the more questions are going to be asked about your perspicacity.
This week Lionel watched Being There for the third time: "A film about nonsense passing for political perspicacity that remains eternally germane".
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".
His prose stinks of perspicacity.
Given their perspicacity, it is to be hoped that in their next book these two authors will tackle in more detail the really hard questions about the cost of rights.
Posterity has confirmed Beethoven's perspicacity.
But perhaps I'm selling Williams's perspicacity short.
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