McEwan, as ever, writes with tenderness and sagacity.
"His office is anything he has the sagacity and force to make it," he wrote.
Robert Coover, in one of his early novellas, writes about a political fixer who, back when he was a congressman, had the sagacity to foresee his own electoral defeat against a "young tight-lipped challenger": You see, I am blessed — or damned, as you will — with puffy pink lips.
"It has required nothing less," Hawthorne wrote, "than the boorishness, the stolidity, the self-sufficiency, the contemptuous jealousy, the half-sagacity, invariably blind of one eye and often distorted of the other, that characterise this strange people, to compel us to be a great nation in our own right, instead of continuing virtually, if not in name, a province of their small island.
Dan Chiasson started a ruckus in Poetry magazine when he wrote about her book, "Some part of Hirshfield knows she's not writing very well, but she's decided to try and sell the problem as sagacity".
Writing (letter writing).
Serendipity: Coined by Horace Walpole in a letter he wrote to Horace Mann in 1754, after the title of the fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip, the heroes of which 'were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of'.
Thomas White wrote "a long, appreciative, but.. properly restrained review" of his brother's book in The Gentleman's Magazine of January 1789, commenting that "Sagacity of observation runs through the work".
It requires a certain sagacity.
Call it the sagacity of hope.
