perspicacityin a sentence
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With your perspicacity, I'm surprised you ask. (source)perspicacity = intelligence
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You will forgive an old friend for not expressing any great surprise, as the matter was writ large enough between the lines of your letters, and could easily be divined, without any great perspicacity on the reader's part. (source)
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He stood behind Farfrae's chair, watching his dexterity in clearing up the numerical fogs which had been allowed to grow so thick in Henchard's books as almost to baffle even the Scotchman's perspicacity. (source)perspicacity = capacity to quickly assess situations
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It was a marvellous effort of perspicacity to discover that I did not love her. (source)perspicacity = perceptiveness and understanding
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The host, who was not endowed with great perspicacity, did not observe the expression which his words had given to... (source)perspicacity = the capacity to quickly assess situations
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Monsieur Rodolphe Boulanger was thirty-four; he was of brutal temperament and intelligent perspicacity, having, moreover, had much to do with women, and knowing them well. (source)perspicacity = the capacity to quickly assess situations and make good decisions
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Their talk was full of exclamations, they paced excitedly up and down the room, marvelling at each other's perspicacity, or stood in silence by the window drumming on the glass, deeply moved by the exalting discovery of how completely they understood each other.† (source)perspicacity = intelligence
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He winced a little at her terrifying perspicacity, and longed to ask: "And May—do they quote her?"† (source)
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The surgeon spoke with the fluency due to long practice and with the admirable perspicacity which distinguished him.† (source)
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Doubtless Swann's voice shewed a finer perspicacity than his own when it refused to utter those words full of disgust at the Verdurins and their circle, and of joy at his having shaken himself free of it, save in an artificial and rhetorical tone, and as though his words had been chosen rather to appease his anger than to express his thoughts.† (source)
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He seemed pleased at my perspicacity.† (source)
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Very likely, with the perspicacity of her sex, she gave out as an accomplished fact what she felt was pretty sure to become a fact in a few days.† (source)
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Madame Merle had predicted to Mrs. Touchett that after their young friend had put her hand into her pocket half a dozen times she would be reconciled to the idea that it had been filled by a munificent uncle; and the event justified, as it had so often justified before, that lady's perspicacity.† (source)
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"You go and fetch her down, Tom," said Mr. Tulliver, rather sharply,—his perspicacity or his fatherly fondness for Maggie making him suspect that the lad had been hard upon "the little un," else she would never have left his side.† (source)
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THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE.† (source)
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She was a woman of middle-age, with well-formed features of the type usually found where perspicacity is the chief quality enthroned within. (source)perspicacity = the capacity to quickly assess situations and make good decisions
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