Sentence examples for perspicacity to from inspiring English sources

(Apparently, Obama found the time to read — and, more remarkably, had the perspicacity to understand — Niebuhr quite some time ago).

"I don't think there's any relation to what one does in one's private life with my perspicacity to cast my vote," she said.

It has, in any case, been five years since the release of Porterfield's first feature, "Hamilton," which Anthology Film Archives had the perspicacity to program.

"I hope the three-year eulogising of Strauss has given him the perspicacity to realise that he's a drag on the team he obviously loves.

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.

Thirty-odd years ago, it didn't require all that much perspicacity to see that the Vietnam War could not be won or could not be won at a remotely acceptable cost in blood and treasure, which amounts to the same thing.

As agony aunt Virginia Ironside once said, with her usual perspicacity, not to stay friends with an ex is like enjoying a wonderful roast chicken then not making stock from the bones.

Greek literature is represented by the works of philosophers or sophists: Themistius, a political theoretician who advocated absolutism; Himerius of Prusias; and above all Libanius of Antioch, whose correspondence and political discourses from the Theodosian period bear witness to his perspicacity and, often, to his courage.

Lacking perspicacity, she failed to understand that, in France, kings' wives were supposed to be as peahens to the gaudy peacock husband; elegant, but drab and unshowy.

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.

I would be interested in your observations, if there are places where you believe you have actually seen racial profiling impact or chill an agent's perspicacity or desire to look into something.