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
And former Defence Minister Thomas de Maizière picked the perceptively entitled 1980s Europop hit Life Is Life in 2014.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2021
Mr. Thorne has often written perceptively about young people — children, adolescents, and early adults — and his latest project, “Sunday,” is set among a group of New Yorkers just starting their grown-up lives.
From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2019
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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