How To Use Perspicacity In A Sentence
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Gradually it dawned on Bob that this man was acting in the capacity of "barker" -- that with quite admirable perspicacity and accuracy, he was engaged in selecting from the countless throngs the few possible purchasers for Lucky Lands.
The Rules of the Game
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Channel 4's overseas buyers have foreseen the audience demand with their usual perspicacity.
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Now, obviously these observers were simply dupes, and I admire his perspicacity in seeing straight through them.
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Internet discussion groups at times appear to be founts of perspicacity and wisdom, at other times the ultimate refuge for sociopaths releasing years of pent-up frustration.
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Tony "perspicacity" Blair
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It is, moreover, written with an attention to syntax commensurate with the author's historical perspicacity.
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Your perspicacity in phrasing such a question is a source of wonder to me.
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When you come out of it (takes just a couple of minutes) all the fire and brimstone and luminous perspicacity is gone.
Under the Influence
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That pearl of perspicacity was merely a lagniappe, an amuse-bouche to prepare our palates for the big revelation, to wit Spielberg's new project ‘aimed at tackling that lack of understanding’.
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Then," I continued, "perhaps you have found a prince of the church, pale as alabaster, sitting in his red robe, who put together the indicatory evidence of the crime that baffled you with such uncanny acumen that you stood aghast at his perspicacity?
The Sleuth of St. James's Square
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And since we are sharing… intimacies… well, I am anyway - I might as well be totally frank and admit up-front that I often find myself in awe of my friend's perspicacity.
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Channel 4's overseas buyers have foreseen the audience demand with their usual perspicacity.
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Few can observe their impulses with perspicacity.
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It was a marvellous effort of perspicacity to discover that I did not love her.
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This characteristic, aided by the perspicacity which is bestowed upon every jealous woman, perchance enabled her to read the mysterious Sibyl with some approach to exactness.
The Whirlpool
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I hated it when her paranoia turned to perspicacity—in other words, when she was right.
The Dark Side of Innocence
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At the editing stage, Henry Volans at Faber was a font of sage suggestions while Trevor Horwood cleaned and polished the manuscript with perspicacity and good humor.
When a Billion Chinese Jump
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Winston Churchill, with extraordinary perspicacity, wrote at the time: Meeting an artillery attack is like catching a cricket ball.
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He only shrugged his shoulders in noninvolvement, but his countenance had a sliver of conviction for such a show of perspicacity.
Magnum Opus, or A Portrait of the Artist as a Dead Man
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Perspicacity is an abstract noun describing a certain capacity of a certain capability.
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I here, by the unexampled favour you stand in with our Sage, send not a Biography only, but an Autobiography: at least the materials for such; wherefrom, if I misreckon not, your perspicacity will draw fullest insight: and so the whole Philosophy and Philosopher of Clothes will stand clear to the wondering eyes of England, nay thence, through
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
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But here's a little fist bump for having the balls to use the word perspicacity as though you use it regularly.
Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
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There is nothing heartless about his intelligence or his perspicacity.
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Baker, with that supernatural perspicacity which is sometimes found in stupid mothers, saw that Agatha was refusing her usual partners.
The Grey Lady
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Because the existence of the Tibetan nation-in-exile is fragile and complex, his perspicacity and firmness have been essential in introducing such far-reaching changes.
Rio Helmi: From Exile, Showing the Way Forward
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The insurmountable hurdle for the Liberal Party is the perspicacity and discernment of the public.
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Artists, like great religious leaders, show amazing perspicacity in this respect.
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An intellectual dapperling of these times boasts chiefly of his irresistible perspicacity, his 'dwelling in the daylight of truth,' and so forth.
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Indeed the poisonous partisanship of present politics present a pernicious paradigm of parsimony preventing perspicacity from penetrating the public piazza of … of …. oh, poo!
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