as in insight
the ability to understand inner qualities or relationships
a novelist of surprising sagacity considering his youthfulness
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Where’s the heroic sagacity of For Queen and Country, Malcolm X, Remember the Titans, The Manchurian Candidate, Fences, Roman J. Israel, Esq., or even Macbeth?
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Armond White, National Review, 1 Sep. 2023
Such sagacity is normally wasted on the Masked Observer, but as he and his retinue were shoved into the Civic Center lobby by a brusque and mighty wind, eyes parched from the blow, squatting like frontiersmen suddenly looked like an appealing option to facing the elements.
—al, 17 Feb. 2023
Moreover, his character is too much of an idealized stock figure, brought on at intervals to dispense sagacity, especially about the virtues of tolerance.
—Kyle Smith, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2022
Their life experiences hold within them more knowledge and enlightenment, more discernment and sagacity than can be found anywhere else.
—Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Jan. 2023
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Armond White, National Review, 1 Sep. 2023
Such sagacity is normally wasted on the Masked Observer, but as he and his retinue were shoved into the Civic Center lobby by a brusque and mighty wind, eyes parched from the blow, squatting like frontiersmen suddenly looked like an appealing option to facing the elements.
—al, 17 Feb. 2023
Moreover, his character is too much of an idealized stock figure, brought on at intervals to dispense sagacity, especially about the virtues of tolerance.
—Kyle Smith, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2022
Their life experiences hold within them more knowledge and enlightenment, more discernment and sagacity than can be found anywhere else.
—Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Jan. 2023
See All Example Sentences for sagacity
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