Founders with less sagacity would be donning new suits for their stock market debut.
More important, the Ravens have a middle linebacker and free safety with the sagacity to recognize New England's formations and personnel distributions.
He fled into southern Judah and Philistia, on the coastal plain of Palestine, where, with great sagacity and foresight, he began to lay the foundations of his career.
He could read a situation with uncanny sagacity; his editor for many years, Paul Webster, recalled him as "a rare combination of intellectual and foot-in-the-door hack.
Most descriptions of Mrs. McClelland suggest the savoir faire of Auntie Mame crossed with the sagacity of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle — as illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
Such a summary does no justice to a full life lived into its ninth decade, but Hastings recounts the mass of detail and the massive literary output with great sagacity and the sharpest of eyes.
Chief among these was Cecil (afterward Lord Burghley), whom Elizabeth appointed her principal secretary of state on the morning of her accession and who was to serve her (first in this capacity and after 1571 as lord treasurer) with remarkable sagacity and skill for 40 years.
"Why did I go through all that?" "Sometimes …," I surprised myself with such sagacity, " … you leave home in search of greener grasses and the search leads you right back to the field where you started". Dang, I'm good.
But to meet the aspirations of eLife (or any other would-be general-interest selective biology journal) demands a breadth and depth of knowledge, with the sagacity to apply it appropriately, that are in limited supply, as is the time of professional scientists, especially knowledgeable and sagacious ones.
McEwan, as ever, writes with tenderness and sagacity.
