Adjective : to exhibit perspicacious judgment. From Dictionary.com.
And it is fundamentally distinct from other kinds of motive, as Kant noted so perspicaciously. From Wordnik.com. [Carry-Over Thread] Reference
Melanie Phillips who is peerless in her championing of the depoliticisation of policing has chronicled this decline perspicaciously and in detail. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
He called it a "writing bent" but as is plain from his autobiography, it might be considered an impulse to speak perspicaciously and openly to the people. From Wordnik.com. [Good Financial Information] Reference
As John Kenneth Galbraith so perspicaciously said, in America it is far better for one's career to be conventionally wrong than to be unconventionally right. From Wordnik.com. [America's Moral Meltdown] Reference
But the nineteenth-century terrorists, so perspicaciously depicted by Dostoevsky in The Possessed, terrible as they were, had a certain ethics: they paid with their own lives for taking the lives of their enemies. From Wordnik.com. [A Death in St. Petersburg] Reference
It is better, Professor Roberts perspicaciously suggests, to make Social Security and Medicare a safety net program for the people who really need it, and let richer Americans who can afford it handle their own retirements. From Wordnik.com. [Alan Schram: A Better Stimulus for the Economy] Reference
In many religious gatherings, to openly and perspicaciously question a fundamental assumption would be an embarrassment met with scorn; the questioner patted on the head and told that the questions are endearing but a sign of naïveté. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Hindes: Think for Yourself: Is Science "Just Another Religion"?] Reference
Lost ... how much more, especially when in this sleep deprived state, could he tolerate this standing idly at the edge of the highway and, in each sound of an emerging truck, anticipating, or coercing a feigned anticipation of, the emergence of a bus futilely, but in thought expecting that it would never come most perspicaciously?. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
Carl Raschke is our Humpty Dumpty, perspicaciously interpreting the. From Wordnik.com. Reference
I bought a chicken bus Guatemalan t-shirt and authentic jade cuff links, which I had been eyeing perspicaciously. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
Nonetheless, traveling the otherwise imprudent road of reflection, one might find a number of reasons to perspicaciously reconsider past failures. From Wordnik.com. [The Minority Report -] Reference
Both Krugman and I have written that Keynesianism is counter-intuitive and hard to explain, but as Avedon Carol perspicaciously in this discussion, that's not really true. From Wordnik.com. [Hullabaloo] Reference
There is, indeed, some danger lest he that too scrupulously balances probabilities, and too perspicaciously foresees obstacles, should remain always in a state of inaction, without venturing upon attempts on which he may perhaps spend his labour without advantage. From Wordnik.com. [The Rambler, sections 1-54 (1750); from The Works of Samuel Johnson, in Sixteen Volumes, Volume I] Reference
Kelly Link, Howard's style suggests Mervyn Peake, Jorge Luis Borges, and Nabokov at his extreme descriptive best, as well a shared affinity for disjunction and refraction reminiscent of John Ashbery, all while gazing perspicaciously at language through the same loupe that master jeweler Wallace Stevens used. From Wordnik.com. [Powell's Books: Overview]
But so much meaning is comprised in so few words; the particulars of resemblance are so perspicaciously collected, and every mode of excellence separated from its adjacent fault by so nice a line of limitation; the different parts of the sentence are so accurately adjusted; and the flow of the last couplet is so smooth and sweet; that the passage, however celebrated, has not been praised above its merit. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Poets, Volume 1] Reference
He hesitated, then reluctantly said, “I’ve contacts of my own with the local smuggling gangs — as you so perspicaciously noticed, I’ve used them on and off over the years.”. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady of His Own]
Meteorologist John Coleman perspicaciously asks. From Wordnik.com. [GREENIE WATCH] Reference
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