aperçu

Example Sentences

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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

Et je ne suis pas restée à Mystic: dès que j’ai aperçu le vieux cimetière de Hunter Mills, c’est la zone frontalière entre le Québec et les États-Unis qui m’a fascinée.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2017

If I were to recast Montaigne's aperçu it would be thus: "Mistrust a man who takes games too seriously; it means he may be incapable of taking life seriously enough."

From The Guardian • Sep. 24, 2010

The word aperçu my father used to object to.

From The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 1 by Hare, Augustus J. C.