(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.
Wise
Definition:
(v.) Having knowledge; knowing; enlightened; of extensive information; erudite; learned.
(v.) Hence, especially, making due use of knowledge; discerning and judging soundly concerning what is true or false, proper or improper; choosing the best ends and the best means for accomplishing them; sagacious.
(v.) Versed in art or science; skillful; dexterous; specifically, skilled in divination.
(v.) Dictated or guided by wisdom; containing or exhibiting wisdom; well adapted to produce good effects; judicious; discreet; as, a wise saying; a wise scheme or plan; wise conduct or management; a wise determination.
(v.) Way of being or acting; manner; mode; fashion.
Example Sentences:
(1) A more current view of science, the Probabilistic paradigm, encourages more complex models, which can be articulated as the more flexible maxims used with insight by the wise clinician.
(2) I liked watching Morecambe & Wise, I liked the Queen's speech because it was on and everyone listened to it.
(3) Based on these data, we propose that 19-oxygenated androgen intermediates are biosynthesized sequentially in a step-wise fashion as the cytochrome P450 and NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase form transient complexes, and that the amount of isolatable 19-oxygenated androgen is proportional to the amount of excess cytochrome P450 component.
(4) But Zambelis added: "Whatever rebel government emerges, China already has a place in the country business-wise.
(5) First, I recapped Die Hard 2 – the insane cross-eyed Gizmo of the Die Hard world – a few months ago, and now I'm secretly determined to do the whole series before the Guardian film editors wise up and yank this feature from my warm, live hands.
(6) At the hearing, committee chairman Senator Patrick Leahy, praised the secret service as "wise, very professional men and women", and called it shocking that so many of the agency's employees were involved in the scandal.
(7) The acid-mediated Z form binds ethidium more weakly than its B counterpart, and the ethidium induced Z to B conversion occurs in a step-wise (non-allosteric) fashion without the requirement of a threshold concentration.
(8) But some wise old heads sniff into their handkerchiefs because they have sat through too many costly "happy ever after" ceremonies that ended in acrimony.
(9) He has to grow up and wise up to the fact that people at West Brom have supported him right from the beginning of his career.
(10) In an attempt to show the public and cabinet colleagues that money being ring-fenced from Treasury cuts will be spent wisely, Mitchell said he wanted to know whether money spent at agencies such as the World Bank and the UN matched up to the government's anti-poverty objectives and delivered real benefits.
(11) The rate constants involved in the step-wise dissociation, process were obtained.
(12) The Republican presidential candidate then told Fox News that Amazon is “getting away with murder tax-wise” and has a “huge antitrust problem because he’s [Bezos] controlling so much”.
(13) Two new bifunctional reagents suited for the step-wise cross-linking of cysteine and lysine residues in proteins are described.
(14) The correction of hallux varus must be performed in a well planned, step-wise method.
(15) It's wise, however, not to concentrate on the exact path of Sandy.
(16) Concentrations of ceftriaxone and cefotaxime were measured by Andrews and Wise in blister fluids, in ascites and pleural fluid by us.
(17) Given a choice between placating the Freedom Caucus and placating Donald Trump, Ryan is wisely choosing self-preservation with the former.
(18) San Antonio wisely takes a timeout hoping to cool him down.
(19) Crozier has had time to play with since he arrived, but the question is whether he has used his first year wisely to build for the future.
(20) After different time intervals following a single or course-wise administration of the compound the level of total lipids was determined in the muscles and liver of the mice, and of the total lipids, beta-lipoproteins, phospholipids, cholesterol, fatty acids and 11-oxycorticosteroids levels in the blood serum of rabbits and of the bile acids content in the vesical bile of these animals.