perceptiveness

Example Sentences

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Despite all the praise for that film’s perceptiveness about grief, Hamaguchi worried that audiences didn’t entirely understand what he had been after.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2024

He had an exceptional affinity for Rome, where, despite lacking prior knowledge of the city, he won accolades from well-informed habitués, including Federico Fellini and Pier Paolo Pasolini, who extolled the perceptiveness of his portrait.

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2022

The film, “Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain,” has received positive reviews: A film critic for The New York Times wrote, “With immense perceptiveness, Neville shows us both the empath and the narcissist” in Bourdain.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 17, 2021

Even before germ theory, Defoe’s common sense and perceptiveness lead him to conclusions of which our chief medical officer would approve.

From The Guardian • May 1, 2020

Of course I feared his perceptiveness, what he might have seen of me, or even possibly thought in his young mind.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee