(n.) The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1990, aged 42, I wrote an article for the New Statesman on the fortysomethings – the 60s generation, baby boomers, learning how to deal with the sag without yet acquiring sufficient sagacity to fight off the message that the secret to surviving a midlife crisis was holding back time with hormone replacement therapy.
(2) A youth-obsessed society that makes a mint from mining the alleged horrors of growing older – all sag and no sagacity – has locked us into a set of taboos that means millions of us are moving from middle age into possibly decades of allegedly unproductive, dependent, parked-up old age without sufficient armament or attitude of mind to challenge prevailing prejudices.
(3) At times, there were suspicions that the mask was all there was to Mandela; that had his grasp of the situation been quite limited, it would have made no difference to his reputation for sagacity, such was the mystique surrounding him.
(4) The Author has collaborate with the Anthos advised some sagacity and modifications, especially at the waterworks, for render "surgical" a regular odontological compact instrument.
(5) A cure for the ailing church “would require a much deeper ecclesial comprehension than the present leadership currently exhibit … There seems to be no sagacity, serious science or spiritual substance to the curatives being offered.” Rather, he says, the church “is being slowly kettled into becoming a suburban sect, corralling its congregations, controlling its clergy and centralising its communication.
(6) The sagacity of performing surgery for hip dislocations is raised.
(7) If seeming to lack dynamism, in conversation he conveyed an impression of calm sagacity and was widely respected in Sierra Leone.
(8) Questions are raised as to the strength of the evidence, the sagacity of abandoning the hypothesis, or the probability of this sample size detecting differences.
(9) Because of their sagacity, dwarves and jesters were not only allowed but expected to goad and pastiche the noble or the monarch they served, forever reminding their masters of the empty vanity of power.
Simplicity
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded; as, the simplicity of metals or of earths.
(n.) The quality or state of being not complex, or of consisting of few parts; as, the simplicity of a machine.
(n.) Artlessness of mind; freedom from cunning or duplicity; lack of acuteness and sagacity.
(n.) Freedom from artificial ornament, pretentious style, or luxury; plainness; as, simplicity of dress, of style, or of language; simplicity of diet; simplicity of life.
(n.) Freedom from subtlety or abstruseness; clearness; as, the simplicity of a doctrine; the simplicity of an explanation or a demonstration.
(n.) Weakness of intellect; silliness; folly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
(2) From these results it was concluded that FITC-Con A staining method applied to smear specimens is more advantageous in the rapidity and the simplicity for tumor cell diagnosis than section specimen method.
(3) The system is characterized by high durability, simplicity, and economy and offers an attractive alternative to prevalent columns used for flow analysis.
(4) The simplicity of the Navy method for treating cholera makes it well suited for use in epidemics in populations with no experience in cholera.
(5) Features of this spectrometer which make it more suitable than the previously employed scintillation spectrometers for the observation of granulocyte and other chemiluminescent systems include; (1) the ability to measure CL immediately upon reaction initiation; (2) simplicity of photomultiplier tube exchange; and (3) built-in optical filter holders for spectral analysis.
(6) These issues include the desirability of including adolescents and both pregnant and nonpregnant women in the trial, the use of unapproved control regimens, problems with antimicrobial susceptibility testing due to inadequate methodology and the need for prompt treatment, the need to assess agents for treatment of syndromes of unknown microbial etiology, toxicity considerations related to the use of single-dose regimens, management of the sexual partners of the participants in the trial, analysis of data despite the high frequency of minor protocol violations, sexual reexposure to infection during the trial, and the potential for loss, alteration, or falsification of data because of the relative simplicity of the usual protocol design and the diagnostic reliance on specimens that are routinely discarded.
(7) TR-FIA has several advantages over the more laborious techniques available so far: (i) high sensitivity, (ii) large assay ranges, (iii) rapidity and large number of simultaneous assays, (iv) simplicity, and (v) low cost provided that the laboratory has equipment for time-resolved fluorometry.
(8) The ease of use and relative simplicity of the apparatus are advantages over more complex non-invasive techniques employing microprocessors in the analysis of blood velocity.
(9) Based on the simplicity of performance and the economical nature of the test system, DIA is recommended as a diagnostic tool for field surveys and small laboratories in developing countries.
(10) The simplicity of the method, in particular, the solution by the graphic method for estimation of the apparent volume of distribution, might be specially useful for clinicians not well versed in mathematics in applying clinical pharmacokinetics to drug therapy.
(11) The advantages of the method include speed, simplicity, avoidance of additional cloning steps into single-stranded phage M13 vectors, and hence applicability to sequencing large numbers of samples.
(12) The high diagnostic accuracy was obtained in spite of low spatial resolution and simplicity of the method.
(13) Guy Simplice, spokesman for president Michel Djotodia, said by phone there had been heavy fighting near the seat of government, before the army was able to block the aggressors.
(14) It was found that the present method was useful for the primary diagnostic screening of CTX because of its simplicity and because many samples could be analyzed at one time.
(15) The normal values are slightly higher than those obtained with methods using some purification step of the extract before the assay but due to its simplicity the described method is a suitable one for clinical purposes.
(16) Compared with the methods previously reported, this system showed good results, simplicity for setting up, good patient tolerance and low cost of the equipment.
(17) The new method offers shorter runtimes, improved resolution and greater simplicity in comparison with ion chromatography.
(18) The simplicity of the diagnostic tests is emphasized.
(19) Only 18 different species were isolated, which indicates the relative simplicity of the flora.
(20) The technical simplicity of the procedure should readily permit automation.