perceptively
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The most important of these was “The Portable Faulkner,” a perceptively organized anthology of novel excerpts and short stories, for Viking Press in 1946.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
You did have somebody like Mark Twain write really perceptively about the hypocrisies of that age.
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2025
As a middle-class hero himself, Singh was expected to deal with Hazare's demands more perceptively.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2024
As he perceptively observes, the same hang-ups that have inhibited him elsewhere in life are likely what drove him to become a great director of photography.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2020
He laughed quietly, his sunken, shrewd eyes sparkling perceptively with a cynical and wanton enjoyment.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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