Sentences with phrase «sagacity of»

The sagacity of juries is perhaps best captured by a bit of advice from a juror in a criminal trial whose comment is relevant to every litigator: «Make your point and move on — we are reasonably intelligent people and have been paying attention to the testimony.»

Sitting there, poking my fire, I contemplated the sagacity of those that knew not how badly we have managed just the last ~ 150 years of hominid generated data.

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.

But it is her craftsmanship, her powerful control of the work's materiality, that truly holds the viewer's attention — revealing the sagacity of Kasten's on - going exploration of the interplay between mediums, specifically sculpture, installation, painting, and photography.

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.»

Not exact matches

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

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.

I want to add to this list my own expressions of thanks to those who made what might have been a difficult undertaking a rewarding one instead: Ruth Hopewell, who gave me the privilege of editing the book and consistently aided me in doing so; the Directors of Auburn Seminary, who granted a generous leave for my work on the project in Atlanta; Jim Waits and Elizabeth Smith, who anticipated everything I would need for the work to be done comfortably and efficiently; Lurline and James Fowler, who provided housing and friendship; Channing Jeschke, Candler's librarian, who made available and helped to arrange Hopewell's books and papers; Brooks Holifield, who worked with me on the last and knottiest problems in the text; and David Kelsey, on whose encouragement and sagacity I relied heavily when my assignment seemed most formidable.

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.»

No one can pretend for a moment that in point of spiritual sagacity and capacity, Fox's mind was unsound.

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

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.

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.

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.

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».

«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.»

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

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.

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.»

«The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his»

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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.»

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

Just a couple of years ago, Lindzen and others, who had the sagacity and audacity to question the alarmist dogma disguised as science, seemed to be doomed to Sisyphean ball - rolling up a steep hill.