perceptive
Example Sentences
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We put store in knowing what people look like: hence the value of perceptive portraits.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
Taylor is one of the most emotionally perceptive fiction writers working today, and his third novel, set in the New York art world, is his best.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 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
There, in the confines of its pages, Nora recognizes that her father has a much more innate and perceptive knowledge of her that neither of them ever could’ve imagined.
From Salon • Nov. 23, 2025
He is one of the brightest and most perceptive of Volpe’s students, a technophile who spends a lot of time taking apart and putting back together gadgets of all kinds—computers, sound equipment, phones, cameras.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
Vocabulary lists containing perceptive
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