Sentences with phrase «sagacity about»

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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.»

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.

The first writers to acquire an individual reputation as art critics in 18th - century France were Jean - Baptiste Dubos with his Réflexions critiques sur la poésie et sur la peinture (1718)[17] which garnered the acclaim of Voltaire for the sagacity of his approach to aesthetic theory; [18] and Étienne La Font de Saint - Yenne with Reflexions sur quelques causes de l'état présent de la peinture en France who wrote about the Salon of 1746, [19] commenting on the socioeconomic framework of the production of the then popular Baroque art style, [20] which led to a perception of anti-monarchist sentiments in the text.