Perspicacity

When you come out of it (takes just a couple of minutes) all the fire and brimstone and luminous perspicacity is gone. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But here's a little fist bump for having the balls to use the word perspicacity as though you use it regularly. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Not a sheep: Tony "perspicacity" Blair skip to main | skip to sidebar ❋ Not A Sheep (2008)

Baker, with that supernatural perspicacity which is sometimes found in stupid mothers, saw that Agatha was refusing her usual partners. ❋ Henry Seton Merriman (1882)

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. ❋ George Gissing (1880)

Meanwhile Danny Williams, Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, reveals his perspicacity: ❋ Unknown (2009)

I hated it when her paranoia turned to perspicacity—in other words, when she was right. ❋ Terri Cheney (2011)

FURTHER UPDATE: Glenn Greenwald, showing his usual perspicacity about all things Israeli, still has on his website, without correction: “Those on the ships emphatically state that the IDF came on board shooting.” ❋ Unknown (2010)

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 (2011)

As it was, the introduction of such evidence was an insult to their intelligence, and she had sufficient faith in their manhood and perspicacity to know that such puerility would not sway them in the verdict they were to give. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is one of those pub arguments which gradually loses relevance: you either conclude that the cavalry has turned up to rescue Martin Johnson in the nick of time or else congratulate him and his lieutenants on their patience and perspicacity. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Naturally just this one which is one of my favorites and causes me to miss the brilliance and perspicacity of JBG, whit, neurodoc and the like. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Five years for Amir shows perspicacity from the ICC. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A notoriously difficult play is laid out before us with rare perspicacity. ❋ Michael Billington (2010)

Usually they are of a base metal, allowing the like-minded merely to note each other's perspicacity. ❋ Sam Sacks (2011)

Indeed the poisonous partisanship of present politics present a pernicious paradigm of parsimony preventing perspicacity from penetrating the public piazza of … of …. oh, poo! ❋ Unknown (2010)

But since we all got used to saying things like, “I ride a 56cm frame,” or even, “I ride a 56cm frame with a 56.5cm top tube,” and understanding conceptually what it means, perspicacity with this measurement system could come with familiarity, too. ❋ Unknown (2011)