What's the difference between perspicacious and sagacious?

Perspicacious


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the power of seeing clearly; quick-sighted; sharp of sight.
  • (a.) Fig.: Of acute discernment; keen.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Attention to the details of current investigations, efforts to control the risk factors, and the perspicacious use and suitable monitoring of pharmacological agents can be expected to reduce the risks for both the pregnant patient and her attending physicians.
  • (2) The deep grooves of grief in his brow, his sunken, woeful eyes and dry parched lips a perspicacious sculpture carved in anticipation of this slap of indignity.
  • (3) Only one thing is perspicaciously clear, and that is where the hysterical arguments against change put by, among others, the Church of England will lie once this saga has run its course – namely, on the wrong side of history.
  • (4) But a close second is the more meaningful and perspicacious “Blame straight people – they keep having gay babies ”.
  • (5) As Steve Coll wrote perspicaciously in The New Yorker last week , the question of resuming war in Iraq in 2014 is not whether or not a new conflict can be justified – but where it will lead.
  • (6) Les Bright Exeter, Devon • For her perspicacious and comprehensive analysis of all the difficulties Simon Stevens will face as the chief of NHS England, Polly Toynbee should be raised to the peerage.
  • (7) Drawing from a perspicacious review of the literature, the respective advantages of various biopsy technics and their uses (i.e.

Sagacious


Definition:

  • (a.) Of quick sense perceptions; keen-scented; skilled in following a trail.
  • (a.) Hence, of quick intellectual perceptions; of keen penetration and judgment; discerning and judicious; knowing; far-sighted; shrewd; sage; wise; as, a sagacious man; a sagacious remark.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This led directly to Briers working with Branagh on many subsequent projects: as a perhaps too likeable Malvolio ("My best part, and I know it," he said) in an otherwise wintry Twelfth Night at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, in 1987, and on a world tour with the Renaissance company as a ropey King Lear (the set really was a mass of ropes, the production dubbed "String Lear") and a sagacious, though not riotously funny, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
  • (2) Election officials have also disqualified Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, the man who until just a few weeks ago was the country's prime minister, under articles ensuring candidates are, among many other things, "sagacious, righteous and non-profligate".
  • (3) He is a kindly and sagacious presence on our television screens and, in this febrile pre-referendum climate, has attained mystical powers for Scottish nationalists.
  • (4) As the more sagacious judges tell us, managers are rarely as good as they are cracked up to be when they are winning, and not as bad in adversity.
  • (5) The nurse's sagacious management of neurologic, hemodynamic and pulmonary status and the ongoing support of the patient and family throughout the angioplasty procedure is crucial to a positive outcome.
  • (6) The tour was organised by the normally ­sagacious Dr Ali Bacher, who had been South Africa's last ­captain before the country was banished from Test cricket at the start of the 1970s.
  • (7) The captain who guided it through the rapids was the sagacious Lord Bragg, who would rather be remembered as the novelist Melvyn Bragg .
  • (8) And, now, perhaps seeing the peak of the native advertising bubble, and with the help of the ever-clueless New York Times , it is, sagaciously, ready to get out with whatever it can.
  • (9) Credit must also go to the sagacious Pékerman whose faith in the young star has allowed Rodríguez to truly blossom.
  • (10) Because he feels at home in the 12th century, an era of sagacious kings and sustainable cabbages.