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1. Much respected and venerated by Lillian Hellman, who wrote „Scoundrel Time," never having had the perspicacity to recognize that she was in fact writing about herself
2. Knowledge lacking perspicacity is analogous to striking a book of matches without first understanding the principles of fire
3. They had to come up with something, which evaded his intuition and perspicacity
4. Where Mercury conjunction natives tend to sleepwalk through life, focusing all their attention on those areas in which they have some degree of superiority or control and ignoring everything else, the elongation natives tend to overuse mind – they are utterly taken by their own cleverness and perspicacity, and refuse to act on the pure promptings of their hearts without first thoroughly rationalizing them
5. "But we do know what to talk about next," he said, disconcerted by her perspicacity
6. The city was named after the statesman who, with great perspicacity, recognised Alaska's potential and strategic importance before anyone else
7. Monsieur Rodolphe Boulanger was thirty-four; he was of brutal temperament and intelligent perspicacity, having, moreover, had much to do with women, and knowing them well
8. It was a marvellous effort of perspicacity to discover that I did not love her
9. "Sire," said Villefort, "the suddenness of this event must prove to your majesty that the issue is in the hands of Providence; what your majesty is pleased to attribute to me as profound perspicacity is simply owing to chance, and I have profited by that chance, like a good and devoted servant—that's all
10. Godwyn was annoyed by her perspicacity
11. Your reading of my character does honour to your perspicacity
12. "E vero!" exclaimed the Capataz, surprised into the use of his native tongue by so much perspicacity
13. Very likely, with the perspicacity of her sex, she gave out as an accomplished fact what she felt was pretty sure to become a fact in a few days
14. When I entered at once into the closest direct relations with those forty tiny peasants that formed my school (I call them tiny peasants because I found in them the same characteristics of perspicacity, the same immense store of information from practical life, of jocularity, simplicity, and loathing for everything false, which distinguish the Russian peasant), when I saw that susceptibility, that readiness to acquire the information which they needed, I felt at once that the antiquated church method of instruction had outlived its usefulness and was not good for them
15. But a person has to have too little perspicacity not to see that the causes which now are leading to a conflict between England and America have remained the same, and that, if even the present conflict shall be settled without a war, there will inevitably to-morrow or the day after appear other conflicts, between England and Russia, between England and Turkey, in all possible permutations, as they arise every day, and one of these will lead to war
16. It is worthy the observation of those gentlemen who so clearly see an insult in this letter of the 11th of October, that they have found what had escaped the jealous perspicacity of Mr
17. But what will you?—to assume evil is easy, and always gives one a proud sense of superior perspicacity
18. I regret, as much as any one, that such is the state of things, that the question, whether a foreign despot has done a particular act, seems necessarily to be connected with the question concerning the prudence and perspicacity with which our own Chief Magistrate has done another act