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
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
A little aperçu into your field equipment and methods would be of great interest.
From New York Times • Sep. 10, 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 Finck, Henry Theophilus
