perceptivity
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We hope that when the state of the industry improves, your perceptivity and feel for a complex situation will be employed to do the story of the recovery.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was religious of soul; he had a sort of transcendental perceptivity, so to speak, which kept him more alive to the comforts of religion than to its obligations.
From Saxe Holm's Stories by Jackson, Helen Hunt
Through his prodigious emotional perceptivity he has the power of feeling and making us feel some strange, perverse accident of fate, destructive of the individual—of making us feel it to be real and terrible.
From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Bierce, Ambrose
CONGREGATIONALIST, Boston: "They are based upon considerable study of these authors, are highly appreciative in tone, and show a perceptivity of American humor which is yet a rarity among Englishmen."
From India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge by Wilder, Alexander
His other large picture, "Interior of a Dumbbell by Night," has the same basic idea without the appearance of it, and gives a very vital sense of the elimination of noumenal perceptivity.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, April 5, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
