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.
But the perspicacity of applying such techniques to one's own employees, who are almost as well versed in the stuff as you are, is questionable.
Several methods of gait analysis are available, including visual analysis, which depends on the ability and perspicacity of the investigator, and specific analysis, which requires specialised equipment [ 2- 4].
She is intimate and moving on the anguish that carried her into the company of hawks, but the world of her book is like the world we really live in, crowded with humans and human ideas, and she turns on it all the triple perspicacity of a poet, a naturalist, and a historian.
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.
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".
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.
The perspicacity of some of these studies is astonishing.
Having seen Ms. Dion's show, I can attest to the perspicacity of that assessment.
It's the part of criticism that doesn't depend on perspicacity or knowledge; it depends on rapture, submission, and literary invention.
