Sentences with phrase «great sagacity»

Fear is an instructer of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.

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The editor of the New Yorker, David Remnick, recently contrasted modern writers in Russia with the tradition of the Great Russian Writer: such figures as Gogol, Tolstoy, and even Solzhenitsyn, who represented both sagacity and idealism.

And this did a great deal to prepare the ministers for separation by training them in dependence upon persuasion unbacked by even a possibility of coercive power, and teaching them reliance upon political sagacity and the necessity for very down - to - earth political activity at least in ecclesiastical affairs.

For no current - affairs commentator do I have greater respect than Peggy Noonan, whose sagacity, common sense, plain - spokenness, and «big picture» view of things are as welcome — and rare — as the clarity and persuasiveness of her prose.

I shall be so rash, moreover, as to challenge the conclusions, and thus, in effect, to question the sagacity, of many of the greatest and most justly reverenced of men.»