| 单词 | perspicacious |
| 例句 | By then she had performed unfalteringly under the twins’ perspicacious scrutiny and had confounded all their expectations. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The Institution congratulates you on your perspicacious find. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He once said, `You seem very perspicacious today, Miss Black.' 'Five Easy Pieces' star Karen Black dead at 74 2013-08-08T22:32:41Z David Byrne is perspicacious — a canny mix of smarts and wonder. "David Byrne's American Utopia" is a rousing, vibrant spectacular that rivals "Stop Making Sense" 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z The perspicacious Queens Museum introduced her in its 1998 group show “Out of India.” Art in Review: Nasreen Mohamedi: ‘Becoming One’ 2014-01-16T22:49:27Z “In the late 1990s he wrote ‘Single & Single,’ which was … incredibly perspicacious about what the economic impact of the collapse of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union would be,” Glenny says. Tinker, Tailor, Writer, Spy 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z Such generally perspicacious writers as the British critic Benny Green were merciless with Brubeck. Dave Brubeck: 1920-2012 2012-12-05T18:49:19Z But even the most perspicacious editor cannot bring a piece to life alone. Music Review: Stile Antico Pays Tribute to ‘Tudor Church Music’ 2014-03-09T20:21:15Z He once said, 'You seem very perspicacious today, Miss Black.' Hollywood actress Karen Black dies 2013-08-09T09:46:24Z Instead, Paul agrees with the egotistical Holmes that no one is more perspicacious than the detective himself, and so no one else is capable of exploring the darkest recesses of his troubled psyche. The Secret of Sherlock Holmes 2010-07-23T21:00:00Z Anyone familiar with his trio, featuring the venerable bassist Henry Grimes and the perspicacious drummer Chad Taylor, would recognize their set as a classic of its kind. Review: BRIC JazzFest in Brooklyn Wraps Up With a Mesh of Styles 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z From the cat-and-mouse present-day discussions that alternate chapters with the original short stories, we discover that Julia is an unusually perspicacious detective as well as a sharp-eyed editor. Recreational Adrenaline: Three Sizzling New Thrillers 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z Photograph: Felicity Cloake for the Guardian McEvedy who also suggests substituting cucumber in the absence of green papaya, perspicaciously observes that if you can’t get it, “don’t worry, it’s all about the dressing”. How to make the perfect som tam 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z What secured the nomination were two things: the movie’s extraordinary quality and the perspicacious marketing department at Netflix’s documentary division. Netflix Casts a Wider Net for Original Documentaries 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z The device, though, is only one of many pleasingly inspired flights of writerly fancy sprinkled over an evening of perspicacious insights and devastating verbal takedowns. ‘Vicuña’ is a comedy tailored to troubled political times 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z My perspicacious colleague Charlotte Higgins likens the portrait to a poster for the Twilight vampire film franchise. The Duchess of Cambridge gets an undertaker's makeover 2013-01-11T17:56:13Z “Maneuver,” a six-person show curated by the perspicacious Lynne Cooke, at the Artist’s Institute at Hunter College, traces both Albers’s ongoing influence and the staying power of modernism’s pet format, the grid. What to Do in N.Y.C. This Weekend: Raúl Esparza, “Seared,” and Yvonne Rainer 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z But within these conventions, Coetzee is as perspicacious and erudite a guide as one could hope for. The Outlaw Novelist as Literary Critic 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Fondly eye-rolling pop memoirs such as these are helped immeasurably when the person at the keyboard is as perspicacious and warm a writer as Thorn. Bedsit Disco Queen by Tracey Thorn – review 2013-02-10T08:00:01Z In the hands of Nancy Bartley, a staff writer for The Seattle Times, the story of Herbert Niccolls Jr. is told with perspicacious detail borne of careful research. ‘The Boy Who Shot the Sheriff’: to protect or punish 2013-05-30T19:47:16Z She taught herself English with the help of homemade vocabulary lists: peccary, pecuniary, perspicacious. An American Jewish Author Now Calls Germany Home 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z Estop, who worked with MacCormac for more than 20 years, said he "wore his intellect lightly, constantly perspicacious, but always ready with an anecdote or joke". Architect Sir Richard MacCormac dies 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z She is enthusiastic, perspicacious and informed, and I look forward to working with her. Veronica Wadley affair: gush, denial and gritted teeth 2010-06-11T10:17:00Z Crewe is perspicacious about marriage and other partnerships, the rituals couples employ, for good and ill. Review | The spirit of E.M. Forster hangs over Tom Crewe’s ‘The New Life’ 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Shush’s mukhtar — the Levantine village equivalent of a mayor — was known to be perspicacious and wise, and he had brought a paved road and an electricity generator to the village, if not — yet — running water. Building the First Long-Distance Hiking Trail in Kurdistan 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z He said she was as “perspicacious as ever.” William and Kate, touring the Caribbean to celebrate the queen’s jubilee, draw anti-colonial protests and demands for reparations 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z It’s true that the 2020 election and Mr. Trump’s unprecedented attempt to undermine it revealed the fragility of American democracy in different and more fundamental ways than even the most perspicacious legislator could have anticipated. A Bill Destined to Fail May Now Spawn More Plausible Options 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z FDR prepared for America’s entry into World War II even while publicly insisting that he wouldn’t, a decision Alterman deems “awfully perspicacious.” Review | Trump is hardly the first serial liar in the White House. But his deceptions are different. 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Even the most perspicacious conservative columnist, which Mr. Will certainly is, underestimates the “progressivity uber alles” philosophy that inhabits academia, especially in the Trump era. Opinion | Academia is hostile toward conservatives 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z Someday, a perspicacious historian or journalist will write the book exposing how Ms. Clinton, a typical mainstream politician, became, on a sea of falsehoods and political hatred, the malevolent witch of American politics. Opinion | Hillary Clinton has been exonerated 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z Smith has proven one of the most even-handed, perspicacious and insightful film critics out there. The Best of Journalism 2019 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z People are also attracted to Obama because he's a perspicacious person. Psychiatrist Justin Frank on Trump, the infant president: “He gives people permission to hate” 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z Of course, any perspicacious viewer of Rocky and Bullwinkle knew that the squirrel was the brains of the outfit. Squirrels Can Store the Same Kinds of Nuts in Specific Groupings 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Her uniquely fluid style reveals a mind so perspicacious, so permissively poetic … and utterly radical. 10 inspiring female writers you need to read 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z The most perspicacious among us have been saying just that for some time. The Emperor Eats Cheese! 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z This is no conventional biodrama about the tortured artist, but very much the film that lovers of Wallace’s dazzlingly perspicacious fiction and essays would want. Review: “Tour” a worthy look at artist as reluctant subject 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z He was perspicacious too, and at times bloody tough. Death of a Liberal 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z It might be perspicacious to trust Saunders on emerging threats too. UK Introduced Life Sentences For Killer Hackers This Month. In Nigeria, It's The Death Penalty 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z One of Snee’s closest friends on the Giants was quarterback Eli Manning, who is far more perspicacious than his purposely bland public persona lets on. Chris Snee and Tom Coughlin Recall Father-Son Talk About Snee’s Retirement 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z All of our strange manners, mores and phobias as commuters are played back to us, too perspicaciously to be denied. Admit One: ‘Platform,’ a New Performance Series at the Transit Museum 2014-04-17T16:35:43Z An NBC Connecticut satellite truck was already there, alerted to the phenomenon by the perspicacious homeowners. One Place Cicadas Get a Warm Welcome 2013-06-02T20:01:41Z I’d much rather be told that I was peerless and perspicacious than that I was a pathetic peripatetic. Compliments only, please 2013-03-13T22:45:08.800Z None of those things is difficult to grasp, and I am not trying to present myself as uniquely perspicacious because I was able to produce a few Excel charts. How Were Western Experts "Blindsided" By Georgia's Widespread Poverty? 2012-10-15T13:17:56Z The perspicacious who peel back the £9bn Olympic veneer to look beneath may be perplexed. Beneath the Olympic gloss we are a troubled nation 2012-07-26T20:00:06Z This new slight bitterness extended even to his thoughts about the perspicacious Minetta. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z Yves Smith, the perspicacious founder of the Naked Capitalism Web site, was especially critical. Fair Game: Mortgage Settlement Leaves Much to Be Desired - Fair Game 2012-02-11T20:54:34Z They being less perspicacious than the judge, hesitated for a while, but finally complied. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z On the contrary, the Romans manifested even then, in the primitive period of their existence, a deep, perspicacious, practical sense, and a mighty political instinct, which showed itself in their first institutions of state. The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 2011-12-24T03:07:59.623Z So it is clear that Webster, in contending that the conditions in these Territories were prohibitive of slavery was as statesmanly and perspicacious as he was generally in other matters. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z Lately she had grown a little more perspicacious about that. A Crooked Mile 2011-10-03T02:00:26.870Z This is apparent enough in his perspicacious letter of May 15, 1771, to the Committee of Correspondence in Massachusetts. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z The more real and oppressive the fit of fear the more enjoyable is the subsequent self-deliverance by a perspicacious laugh likely to be. Children's Ways 2011-08-11T02:00:16.473Z All was precise and perspicacious, as is required in pleadings in the civil courts. The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt 2011-05-24T02:00:12.183Z The perspicacious squaw, knowing the origin of his malady, feared that the pale-face would die from natural causes. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I 2011-04-15T02:00:13.527Z But Stan was perspicacious; he could see anything that was as closely thrust under his nose as is the comparative rarity of the Englishman in Hampstead. A Crooked Mile 2011-10-03T02:00:26.870Z Again and again, in different ways, the most perspicacious observers at the Cambridge conference drove this point home: rational models don't work because there are too many unknowns to justify them. A Call for Radically Rethinking Economic Theory 2010-04-13T16:47:00Z Something occurs to interest your mind and you meditate perspicaciously thereon. The Gay Adventure A Romance Yet even so he feared that the perspicacious Abbot would guess the partner of his penitent, and, notwithstanding the sacred impersonality of the Confessional, regard Michael with an involuntary disgust. Sinister Street, vol. 1 "The Comptroller is perspicacious," said the old man, agreeably, waving one hand in a casual manner. No Shield from the Dead The remaining natives were perspicacious enough to see in the Terrestrials' coming not a threat but a last hope of revivifying their own moribund species. The Venus Trap It is a mirror of two eyes; they are clear, shrewd, perspicacious, and bold; they are the eyes of a Frenchman. The Forerunners Our two white officers have accordingly been no more perspicacious than was to be looked for, and I think they have sometimes been less wise. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) This was a word which highly aroused our curiosity, but I shall be more perspicacious if I narrate these incidents in their true order. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. XII (of 25) But the fact that the Ghetto was perspicacious did not mitigate the author's treachery to his race and faith. Dreamers of the Ghetto "If you see holes in ladders in this perspicacious fashion you'll have to forsake the paths of art for the higher walks of the Prefecture of Police." The Belovéd Vagabond More wary than the Bear in the fable, the bird, with its perspicacious eye, will recognize the fraud in a moment and proceed to business. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Nothing of the sort can ever happen with Hamlet: how could he, with his perspicacious, refined, sceptical mind, ever commit such a mistake! Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906 The words you used in the presence of so grave and perspicacious a judge amounted to something very like this. The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura Bela's boarders were not a very perspicacious lot, but when she came in again to serve the dinner the dullest among them became aware of the change in her. The Huntress And when the whole combination of circumstances—Skinner's advance, Colby's car appearing down the road, Skinner's retreat—was repeated, it was as plain as an open book to the perspicacious little lady. Skinner's Dress Suit Even in the seventeenth century the perspicacious Kepler had not divined their true character, seeing in them, like most of his contemporaries, emanations from the earth, a sort of vapor, losing itself in space. Astronomy for Amateurs Its circulation jumped at the expense of less perspicacious rivals and the incoming mail, already many times normal, swelled to staggering proportions. Greener Than You Think Nevertheless, the perspicacious Mr. Podmore could surmise the subject of conversation, or at any rate give a guess which was close enough to satisfy his own curiosity. Every Man for Himself Nannie Hilliard was both perspicacious and fascinating, and Constance foresaw that her presence would tangle further the already tangled plot of the little comedy which was unfolding itself at Villa Rosa. Jerry Junior Nannie Hilliard was both perspicacious and fascinating, and Constance foresaw that her presence would tangle further the already tangled plot of the little comedy which was unfolding itself at Villa Rosa. Jerry They deluged the world with a multitude of publications; they recruited apprentices of every rank and in every position; they deluded the most perspicacious men by falsely alleging different intentions. Secret Societies And Subversive Movements They were expected to think well of their rule and their rulers; but the most perspicacious exposure of what he called the infirmities of the company was composed by Mariana. Lectures on Modern history If we turn over Ritson's distasteful pages, it is only to obtain from them further proof of the perception of Warton's Romanticism by an adversary whom hatred made perspicacious. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters And this is how that perspicacious matron read those signs. The President A novel And under Section Four Eight 0 The Swanks, the Swanks, dim forms of Swanks, The swarms of Swanks lay low-- These most tenacious, perspicacious, Spacious Swanks lay low. The Glugs of Gosh This is one of the effects of literature in minds not naturally perspicacious. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies You are a perspicacious observer, Mr. Brocken; and to be that is to be alive in a world of the moribund. Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance I could have kicked myself that the fool had been perspicacious enough to see it, but that did not alter the fact. Widdershins But the reporters of the Paris press were more perspicacious. The Son of Clemenceau Some perspicacious Yankees inferred in consequence that eclipses could only take place at the periods of conjunction or opposition, and their reasoning was just. The Moon-Voyage Yet a perspicacious eye might have seen even in these absurd and tasteless productions the signs of a progressive movement—the possibility, at least, of a true advance. Landmarks in French Literature If so, he was defeated by the perspicacious Tony, who observed that when he found a pal that suited him as well as Washtubs he liked to keep him under his own eye. Spanish Doubloons The anger and hatred of a people are perspicacious. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 It was also seen by the more perspicacious of them that the methods hitherto adopted must in future be radically altered. The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey These things were not generally seen in her; I was more favored than many; and I looked at her with pitiless perspicacious eyes. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 All this is worthy the investigation of our acute and perspicacious colleague, Dr. Holmes. A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians She consulted with the perspicacious Mr. Harris, and especially sought from him detailed information as to partnership law. Within the Law This was a word which highly aroused our curiosity, but I shall be more perspicacious, if I narrate these incidents in their true order. Master of Ballantrae Our two white officers have accordingly been no more perspicacious than was to be looked for, and I think they have sometimes been less wise. A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa It was because he was less perspicacious than Erasmus that he did not see that this was what he was inevitably doing in his wrath and in his haste. Albert Durer Let me be legal and specific, perspicacious and logical—if this beating heart, this fevered brain, will allow me a few hours' respite. Birds of Prey The comment of the ragdealer, who took this fiction for historic truth, was always perspicacious and just, revelatory of an instinct for reasoning and common sense. The Quest "Fortunately for you and for me, you are not so perspicacious in psychology as this young lady." Cæsar or Nothing An early attack had been expected, and perspicacious officers had taken advantage of the few hours of rest to urge their men to prepare for the last march to the near frontier. Napoleon's Campaign in Russia Anno 1812 My readers have doubtless made the perspicacious surmise that I was little seen in the college classrooms. Autobiography of a Yogi But he was less perspicacious than the older man. A Florida Sketch-Book We are told, that the subjection of Americans may tend to the diminution of our own liberties; an event, which none but very perspicacious politicians are able to foresee. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons Do you fear to quote the sublimated utterances of the perspicacious, although pleonastic philosopher? Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 24, September 10, 1870 This does not seem nearly so clear to me as it does to some of these learned and perspicacious critics. Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People All this is worthy the investigation of our acute and perspicacious colleague, Dr Holmes. An Introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American Indians This count was truly as wise in military matters as he was perspicacious and discriminating in literary matters. The Deeds of God Through the Franks The Cerceris, more perspicacious, knows each of them for a Weevil, a quarry with a concentrated nervous system, lending itself to the surgical feat of her single stroke of the lancet. More Hunting Wasps Recently, I asked one of the most perspicacious members of his Cabinet, "What do you consider Theodore's dominant trait" He thought for a while, and then replied, "Combativeness." Theodore Roosevelt; an Intimate Biography This circumstance kept that most perspicacious of all societies, the great world of Paris, ignorant of the affair. Beatrix Hippolyte Ceres, without being either very subtle, or very perspicacious, noticed that there was something different in his home. Penguin Island Such a policy was, of course, indicative of a shrewd and perspicacious mind. Catherine De Medici If she has a royally beautiful hand, the most perspicacious beholder will believe that it is absolutely necessary that she should twist, or refix, or push aside the ringlet or curl she plays with. Another Study of Woman These ferreting and perspicacious blue eyes, glassy and glacial, might be taken for the model of that famous Eye, the formidable emblem of the police, invented during the Revolution. An Historical Mystery The adorable boy was ashamed of his ardor, and afraid of being laughed at; Felicite and Vignon were so perspicacious! besides, in such cases young fellows fancy that their foreheads are transparent. Beatrix Again the Baron was the unconscious object of a humorous, perspicacious scrutiny. Count Bunker: being a bald yet veracious chronicle containing some further particulars of two gentlemen whose previous careers were touched upon in a tome entitled the Lunatic at Large This writer, who is horribly perspicacious and vigorous, demonstrates the certainty of a great European war, and regards it with the peculiar satisfaction excited by such things in a certain order of mind. The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft When the perspicacious old chap left off mumbling, all was still in the house. 'Twixt Land and Sea |
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