perceptively
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The influential critic Edmund Wilson, who helped establish Hemingway’s literary reputation, perceptively stated “his prose is of the first distinction” and conveys “profound emotions and complex states of mind.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
As a middle-class hero himself, Singh was expected to deal with Hazare's demands more perceptively.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2024
As Feldon perceptively demonstrates in her astute memoir, part of "getting smarter" means coming to grips, even embracing our pasts, and all the while knowing better about the future.
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2023
Whenever I hear or see the name Justin Chang, I have an expectation of delight that I will be confronted by the clever, articulate and original expression of a perceptively brilliant mind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2021
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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