perceptive
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“The Bloody Crossroads,” published in 1987, isn’t the kind of book you expect a journalist to write: a collection of perceptive, thoroughgoing literary essays on important writers from Henry Adams to Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
Twelve months on, their visit brought more words of caution from Amorim about his side's evolution that proved equally perceptive.
From BBC • Nov. 24, 2025
He spent his initial internship days showcasing his perceptive eye by compiling magazine photos for music video storyboards.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2025
In a perceptive statement, Fed governor Stephen Miran stressed on Oct.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 11, 2025
Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was—in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces—a stunning and final girl.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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