Sentences with phrase «seeming sagacity»

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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.

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

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.