aperçu
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I guess we could fault Caleb for this aperçu, but in a novel that purports to be about the slippery idea of authorship, let’s blame Lipstein.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2022
“It’s an aperçu of Alex Trebek, human being. What is he like? What has he done? How did he screw up? Things like that.”
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2020
I held Johnson’s aperçu in mind while reading “Somebody With a Little Hammer.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2017
Once the full force of his Sistine Chapel aperçu is realised, it becomes impossible – at least for me – to regard the visual arts in the same way.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 27, 2010
Goethe had an aperçu of the absence of purity in Greek love when he wrote, in his Roman Elegies: In der heroischen Zeit, da Götter und Göttinnen liebten.
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck
Reproduced in Pinckney’s new memoir, “Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan,” those aperçus, which belong in some kind of literary hall of fame, include:
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
As the guests cough up their dinner, the two men regurgitate undergraduate-level aperçus about capitalism.
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2022
But Jared’s unforced drollery and naive aperçus resemble nothing so much as late-period Vonnegut.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 1, 2020
Poniewozik contrives many memorable aperçus to indicate Trump’s shape-shifting over the decades, in response to his environment.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 4, 2019
These aperçus left over from the great speculations are the golden threads which successive thinkers weave into the pattern of their thought.
From A Preface to Politics by Walter Lippmann
