Sagaciously

Who could forbear smiling, to see my charmer, like a farcical dean and chapter, choose what was before chosen for her; and sagaciously (as they go in form to prayers, that God would direct their choice) pondering upon the different proposals, as if she would make me believe, she has a mind for some other?

But if these suspicions were really his, he sagaciously refrained from verbally expressing them, however his actions might seem to hint them.

“Introduce me, now there’s a good fellow,” he said, “If we happen to meet it together!” And the Bellman, sagaciously nodding his head, Said “That must depend on the weather.”

At present Joseph Stalin, astute, sagaciously “conservative,” has seen fit to squelch such activities.