Sentence examples for sagacity is from inspiring English sources
This awful sagacity is the ally of my middle-aged form: both are too large, too concrete.
And Henry Fowler, in his Dictionary of Modern Usage of that same year, noted: "Vision, in the sense of statesman-like foresight or political sagacity, is enjoying a noticeable vogue".
As far as we are concerned here, sagacity is not to be intended as a specific type of knowledge enabling a person to gain control over a specific practical domain.
The exercise of discretion and judgment along with the development of sagacity is not arbitrary, a-moral, aprioristic or free from any normative considerations concerning how one should act.
"The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace".
In Hollywood, he was to sit at the feet of Clifford Odets, the leading wisdom merchant of the theatrical left (the sagacity was what marred Odets' plays).
The star, whose insight and sagacity are not confined to creating celluloid masterpieces, is also known to be the wily puppet master behind some of our highest government officials.
But in most cases in all four war zones children demonstrated a resilience, maturity and sagacity that was often unexpected.
If the "Julia letters" exhibit a good deal of political and moral sagacity, they are also underpinned by a sad sort of longing.
His songs use a few chords and lyrics that veer between bleak confession, ardent hope, doggerel and blunt sagacity: "We're all on our own/Scrounging for our share of good luck".
Lovingly packaged and designed, "Yes Is the Answer" is a paper treehouse for gentlemen of a certain age, a safe place to embrace a shared teenage fantasy of adult sagacity they can now re-access as an adult fantasy of innocent youth.
