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.
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.
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.
Rather they end up as consenting dupes for the others, simply because they do not have the energy or the perspicacity to counteract the plots against them.
Even the chemistry with Clara is starting to gel – the unspoken bond between, as one other character here had it with fine perspicacity, the "skeleton man and the girl in the nightie".
In The Duel, Ali provides a gossip-filled, witty and polemical history, revealing, with perspicacity and verve, the flight into the abyss.
He has the perspicacity and the gall to advance almost any proposal, and this is good.
Herein lies the audacity, the tenacity, the perspicacity of the independence project: to take the leap, to take the risk, to meet the challenge.
Not all of them are of the first order of psychological intimacy or perspicacity, but the documentation of artists' homes is fascinating.
