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perceptive

[per-sep-tiv] / pərˈsɛp tɪv /


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Villarreal: Are you, Carrie, as perceptive as Elsbeth?

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

“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

Unburdened by the contemporary setting that sometimes trips up a filmmaker’s boldest ideas, Mona Fastvold’s “The Testament of Ann Lee” is perhaps the year’s most extraordinarily perceptive film.

From Salon • Dec. 5, 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

A perceptive young man, Lopsang was extremely devoted to Fischer; the Sherpa understood how important it was to his friend and employer to get Pittman to the summit.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer




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