perceptively
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The most important of these was “The Portable Faulkner,” a perceptively organized anthology of novel excerpts and short stories, for Viking Press in 1946.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
As Feldon perceptively demonstrates in her astute memoir, part of "getting smarter" means coming to grips, even embracing our pasts, and all the while knowing better about the future.
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2023
And former Defence Minister Thomas de Maizière picked the perceptively entitled 1980s Europop hit Life Is Life in 2014.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2021
Mr. Thorne has often written perceptively about young people — children, adolescents, and early adults — and his latest project, “Sunday,” is set among a group of New Yorkers just starting their grown-up lives.
From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2019
He laughed quietly, his sunken, shrewd eyes sparkling perceptively with a cynical and wanton enjoyment.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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