It's the part of criticism that doesn't depend on perspicacity or knowledge; it depends on rapture, submission, and literary invention.
"I bow to your perspicacity, sir. It would appear that the Great British Public will happily tolerate extremes of inequality and privilege in life but likes to see them temporarily reversed in literature".
With his usual perspicacity, Remnick gets it right: Obama has been more moving at the lectern — at the Convention in Boston four years ago, when he relied mainly on the story of his modest, yet remarkable, multicultural upbringing; at the victory party after the breakthrough win in Iowa, last January — but he has never described himself and his political vision with more clarity.
MILAN — "The Beggar's Opera," John Gay's lampoon of the corruption, injustice and politics of 18th-century Britain, is often revived in contemporary guise to underscore the perspicacity of its observations on the downside of human nature.
That is where 50 years of revelation and cynicism has brought us -- to the point where the presidential election has become the biggest pseudo-event of all and power resides not in the electoral system but in those who feel they have the perspicacity to see through it.
Middlesex is not, however, being universally congratulated for its perspicacity.
That is harsh, but it sounds uncannily close to the mood that has been reported, and recorded, at many of the rallies at which the Republican candidate appeared — deftly massaging the Universal Distrust, brandishing his plume, and even more cannily applauding the crowd for its perspicacity in seeing through the secrets and lies of the establishment.
Mr Bergsten compliments the United States for its perspicacity in forging PTAs that can be opened wider in due course emphasising America's leadership, to be contrasted with the less public-spirited attitudes of the "inward-looking" EU.
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.
Another person bought a word that wasn't in the text just because they liked it so much: "perspicacity".
