Significantly, if you are looking for clues as to who might be on this year's Booker shortlist, the novels of Jacobson and Barnes have been praised with characteristic perspicacity by one of the judges, the critic and literary editor David Sexton.
Because pretty much every journalist and pundit fervently believes that this is, indeed, the natural order of things, traditional media has rewarded Drudge's unctuous perspicacity by giving him a like amount of coverage.
The Taunton Courier noted that at one dinner, he "made a great impression by the perspicacity of his utterances, by the breadth of view they indicated, and by his fluency of speech".
All seven of the Glass children are sharp-witted intellectuals whose perspicacity was honed by regular appearances on a popular radio show "It's a Wise Child"; they're obsessed with learning and seem to have swallowed the entire philosophical canon of both east and west.
(Chinen) TANYA KALMANOVITCH AND MYRA MELFORD (Thursday) Ms. Kalmanovitch, a violist, and Ms. Melford, a pianist, engage in this dual improvisation with a common grounding in European classical and Indian traditional music; they have worked fruitfully together before, as evidenced by "Heart Mountain" (Perspicacity), released last year.
Serious cat people, like first-rate art critics, are chivvied by passion into perspicacity.
HILLARY AND RAHM While on Memory Lane, and because today's column was triggered by the rhetorical perspicacity of the Obaman chief-of-staff-designate, allow me another personal reminiscence.
By the end of World War I, when he was absorbed in the minutiae of publishing exquisite artist books, a labor of love (for which, as always, he turned an eventual profit), Vollard had become stupendously wealthy, despised by some as greedy and ruthless, admired by others for his perspicacity, identified with artists who now defined an era.
The doctor, just returned from the second Anglo-Afghan War, was amazed by the man's perspicacity.
Gibbons's writing has been praised by critics for its perspicacity, sense of fun, charm, wit and descriptive skill the last a product of her journalistic training which she used to convey both atmosphere and character.
He of the long beard and wire-rim glasses and Yiddish-inflected English, a man by all outward appearances belonging to the Old World, he was the person who by geographical coincidence and unexpected perspicacity adapted Coca-Cola's secret formula to make the iconic soft drink kosher in one version for Passover and in another for the rest of the year.
