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perspicacious adjective alert, apperceptive, argute, artful, astute, bright, canny, clear-sighted, clever, crafty, cunning, dioristic, discerning, discriminative, farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, forethoughtful, hardheaded, informed, intelligent, judicious, keen, keen-eyed, keen-sighted, keen-witted, knowing, longsighted, nimble-witted, observant, penetrating, percipient, piercing, quick, quick-witted, sagacious, sagax, sage, sapient, sensible, sharp, sharp-witted, shrewd, understanding, wise See also: acute, circumspect, cognizant, discerning, discriminating, judicious, juridical, lucid, perceptive, sapient, sensitive How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| As Marion Ross perspicaciously observes, "When an open and autonomous culture of gays and lesbians began to form in America's urban centers during the late 1960s, there already existed largely integrated within the African American community an established and visible tradition of homosexuality" (498). However valid such critiques, in its unabashed and tactical use of publicity, Avalanche perspicaciously anticipated critical media practices of the '80s and '90s. One of the most admired intellects working in Romantic literature and editorial theory, Jerome McGann wrote perspicaciously about my first book and concluded by insisting that my interest in study of her manuscripts would surely be well served by my producing a "hypermedia archive" of Emily Dickinson's writings. |
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