Sentences with word «sagacity»

«His death has deeply touched me personally and officially,» the President said, adding that Nigeria would miss the wisdom and political sagacity of Bukar.

Adeyeye noted that Fayose had contributed his wealth of experience and sagacity in developing Ekiti State as governor.

Our Little Sister (Umimachi Diary) may not be Hirokazu Kore - eda's strongest work, but it fits in neatly to the Japanese director's body of bittersweet family dramas; here he shows as much sagacity about girls as he has previously about boys in this tender and often very funny portrait of three sisters who, after their father's death, take in their half - sister from his other marriage.

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

I admire, with Steve Mosher and Andy Fuller «et al», Andy Revkin, I admire his balance and good sense, his strong journalistic sagacity which propels him, despite his feelings and possible politics, to report and give hearing to both sides.

And yet the movie, by showcasing his radiant sagacity as well as his musicianship, betrays that choice.

In Hawthorne we find in effect a comprehensive interpretation of early New England history in which the founding generation is criticized but also admired — it was «stern, severe, intolerant, but not superstitious, not even fanatical,» and possessed «a farseeing worldly sagacity.»

But, as Origen of Alexandria said in the third century in his response to charges brought against Christianity by its critics, the Christian religion has its origin in «God's manifestation not in human sagacity,» in the appearance of the divine Logos in human form.

In fact, however, apart from a few, easily extractable sagacities, it is not really very good «devotional» reading.

Although it might require sagacity to express this objectively, what he meant was that insofar as a person apprehends the value of something, he apprehends it as satisfying «principle,» that is as being a means to the end of incorporating the categoreal obligations in the process of making an actual thing out of initial data.

Kudos to Yerima and the Northern Youths for their political and strategic sagacity.

The more wisdom and sagacity within a piece of work, the further back its origins have to be in the past.

Mr. Lucas is not without a certain technocratic sagacity, but I don't think he's communicating even with the young as astutely as he once did.

Our jaded, post-Obama media have poisoned the plausibility of this gesture, yet Darkest Hour initiates a genuine, modern approach to political heroism and the Western sagacity that is out of favor.

The matinee of appreciation for Parker is not surprisingly around fifteen, when stuff like Mississippi Burning and Midnight Express has the weight of sagacity rather than the reek of puerile outrage and unbecoming grandstanding.

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.

- Michael Beschloss, Chicago Tribune «Mr. Vidal demonstrates a political imagination and insider's sagacity equaled by no other practicing fiction writer I can think of.»

Sagacity did not magically arrive with age.

It encouraged the middle classes to form optimistic conclusions about animal intelligence; it gave rise to innumerable anecdotes about animal sagacity; it stimulated the notion that animals could have character and individual personality; and it created the psychological foundation for the view that some animals at least were entitled to moral consideration.

A number of interactive works place the audience at the centre, including Sagacity created by Aidan Moesby (UK).

• Results - driven Retail Buyer looking for a position, using exceptional ability to achieve sales plans, profit margins, turnover and returns through effective business sagacity.

The other possibility, of course, is that we're not moving securely down the recovery trail at all, and the remaining gloomsters who see us — particularly the real estate market — dropping off the edge of the earth sometime soon are giving each other high - fives because of their seeming sagacity.

As his children, we have learnt a lot from his deep political sagacity.

«A committee is an odd potpourri of people whose collaborative idiosyncratic behaviour is often in no way reflective of the brilliance or sagacity of any of the individuals of which it is made.

As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, «Fear is an instructor of great sagacity and the herald of all revolutions.»

He emphasized that Governor Akinwunmi Ambode is a «rich blend of maturity, ingenuity, selflessness and sagacity which will make his tenure smooth and phenomenally successful».

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.

In seconding the sagacity of Long's opinion, if not its motive, Arendt wrote to Karl Jaspers that «all of it would be brought about without violence and only through pressure.»

He first gives a reminder of what is needed in political action, namely, sagacity and force, calculation and power.

Synonyms deepness, profoundness, profundity Related Words discernment, perception, perceptiveness, perceptivity, percipience, sagacity, sapience, sense, sensibility, wisdom; braininess, brightness, brilliance, intellect, intelligence, judgment (or judgement), reason, sense, smartness, wit; acuity, acuteness, keenness, penetration, perspicacity, sensitivity, sharpness

One of the common references from my youth was Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, the compendium of eloquence and sagacity that started in 1855 and sold 300,000 copies by 1905.

I'd be more impressed with your sagacity if you pointed out where you predicted the demise and / or exit of the Euro - periphery states.

I salute the SAN's courage and sagacity and I actually wish him well.

«Most of the party leaders and members are saying given his pedigree, I mean his integrity, democratic credentials and political sagacity, he is eminently qualified to make a success of this daunting task.»

While this distraction was in ascent, a leeway was created for imbuing the Chosen One with the political sagacity that he so pitifully lacks.

We grudge no man a fortune which represents his own power and sagacity, when exercised with entire regard to the welfare of his fellows.

Speaking further, the community spokesman said: «The Senator's political sagacity and prowess has robbed - off positively on former governors of the state including Akala, because everyone he supports, always coast to victory.»

The governor expressed sadness that death had again taken away one of the brightest, dutiful and committed political leaders in the state, who had used his sagacity in piloting the affairs of the Assembly without rancour.

Being passed on from teacher to pupil, the tradition seems to have lost a bit of its sagacity in each step.

Prudence (Latin: prudentia, contracted from providentia meaning seeing ahead, sagacity) is the ability to govern and discipline oneself by the use of Advances in Consumer Research Volume 18, 1991 Pages 521 - 527.

At least Wes Bentley is well cast in his role and provides one of the few solid performances, flashing moments of rage and sagacity.