aperçu

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One such aperçu involved his interrogation of the phrase “unapologetically Black,” with him saying, “I am not unapologetically anything, because when I say that I have already apologized.”

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2023

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

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

He called it an aperçu, "a revelation springing up in the inner man that gives him a hint of his likeness to God."

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English by Various