He's impassioned and animated, perceptive and entertaining, gregarious and charismatic. |
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He writes in a confounding way that always makes me end up thinking that he is a raving buffoon or an extraordinarily perceptive genius. |
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I'm all for good satire, the sharp and perceptive deflating of pretense, pompousness or deceit. |
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He's always happy to talk, frank in his opinions, entertaining in his manner and perceptive about whatever matter is in hand. |
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A perceptive woman, gifted with a modern vision, a frank subjectivity and a libidinous persona which invited attention from her contemporaries. |
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She was great at reading other people, just not so perceptive when it came to herself. |
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It does require a fairly perceptive and finely discriminating eye to judge intelligently the intrinsic qualities of any work of art. |
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He was a brave and energetic traveller, an art historian of astonishing erudition, and a profoundly perceptive connoisseur of civilisations. |
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The high notes are dazzling, however, and dramatically, she is perceptive and lacking neither in pathos nor in vulnerability. |
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The Schmidts are not perceptive, so they did not notice the warning signs of drug abuse. |
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Psychologically perceptive and metaphysically curious, both men had a keen eye for understanding and decoding the human condition. |
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Behind every brilliant best-selling author is usually a perceptive, savvy publisher. |
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If a certain amount of begrudgery is the unavoidable product of such a position of eminence, it is neither fair nor perceptive. |
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A reliable narrator, I would suggest, is an intelligent, shockable, conscientious and perceptive, human being. |
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Ally, despite being very perceptive, didn't notice the pain in his voice as he spoke. |
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Now, a competent, perceptive drinker will immediately remark that hotel bars are overpriced. |
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That piercing insight is not included in her Critical Editions though it is implicit in the pages reprinted from her own perceptive book. |
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He was sharply perceptive and had an earthy, sly humour which put an edge on his nice irony. |
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David Deans has a number of perceptive insights about the wackiness of mobile messaging players. |
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The more perceptive members of the group will be able to detect there's something wrong and act accordingly. |
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We were fortunate to have a very thoughtful and perceptive Minister who was across the issues involved in the WorkCover Scheme reform. |
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Groomed by his father Nicholas I to head the navy, he had developed into a perceptive intellectual who at the same time was a man of action. |
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As some perceptive reviewer put it, Barry writes like an angel, but an angel on the side of the fallen. |
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Under Stalin, and after, Soviet newspapers tended to exhort rather than inform, but perceptive readers could read between the lines. |
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Her bubbly personality plus her perceptive understanding of local issues mean that Liz is a natural on the airwaves. |
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Here Maguire is at her most perceptive, most articulate and most revelatory. |
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If you have the right background and are sharp, witty and perceptive, we would like to hear from you. |
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By everyone's account, he was an exceptionally bright and perceptive child with a magnetic personality. |
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The first album was a showcase for their extraordinary, perceptive take on music in general. |
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His songwriting is tuneful and perceptive, his sound raw and raggedy glorious, his voice thick and resonant. |
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Socially he was undemonstrative, but he had a dry and perceptive wit, which was a source of considerable amusement to his colleagues and friends. |
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He must play Coffey as simple and unsophisticated, but yet intelligent and perceptive in a delicate balancing act. |
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We are usually such a perceptive people, I suppose histrionics really numbs the brains and being superheroes is something no one can resist. |
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I have more spare time and I'm more perceptive of my life and my surroundings. |
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The dance series was inspired by the work of Gorey, that darkly mischievous and brutally perceptive illustrator. |
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So is it also true that our ability to appreciate and make a perceptive assessment has also degenerated? |
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While in general that's a remarkably perceptive observation, somehow it does not seem to apply to this place. |
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Based on research papers originally written for a symposium, it offers 19 essays, most of them lucid and perceptive. |
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She has such a sharp and perceptive intellect and can express complex ideas really clearly. |
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But no other book of the period offers such a perceptive account of how the colonial bourgeoisie lived and thought. |
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It also offers some perceptive insights into the personal and political place of art in modern life. |
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What an extraordinarily perceptive insight into so much of the rage that inflames the world today. |
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You are perceptive and sensitive so listen to your intuition or gut feelings. |
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This man is part of history and his observations were perceptive, wise, eloquent, witty and charming. |
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It is both a wry and perceptive critique of the colonial system and a sharply observed account of childhood. |
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He was friendly, though, and very perceptive and sharp, but oftentimes he let his pen do the talking for him. |
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Natives of the Taurus-Scorpio group are enormously perceptive and highly sensitive. |
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It provides a perceptive insight into one of the great maritime mysteries of modern times. |
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It is a perceptive account of life in an occupied city, in which victors and vanquished alike are corrupted and demoralized. |
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The pathos of this account is well complemented by a robust sense of humour and perceptive insights into human nature. |
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She had always been quiet as a child, thoughtful and passive but very intuitive and perceptive. |
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You are subtle and gracious yet keenly perceptive and observant at work, missing nothing but noting every detail or omission. |
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The witticisms of Oscar Wilde are without a doubt some of the most amusing and perceptive observations on society. |
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Quentin Williams makes this point in a perceptive essay on painting and photography. |
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We grow more sensitive, more perceptive, more aware of others. |
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Willa is a wonderfully smart and funny and perceptive and engaging little kid. |
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To the perceptive, Christmas helps us see those around us for the gifts they truly are. |
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He was highly perceptive and exquisitely sensitive to everything around him. |
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His new book, despite some sensible and perceptive parts, eventually collapses into abject apology for modern capitalism in general and the United States in particular. |
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While his willingness to explore the darker side of marriage makes his movie more perceptive than many others, the film loses its way when love hits the rocks. |
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I've never worked with someone who is so perceptive, sharp and wise. |
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But somewhere in the middle of the pendulums swing, individuals who are tenacious, perceptive, or lucky may glean both freedom and wisdom from social changes. |
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It is here that the conscious thought and the perceptive experience flow. |
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My experience has been that when professionalism is perceptive and determined, governmental sagacity helps in conflict resolution both in India and Pakistan. |
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The film succeeds as a perceptive character study, demonstrating how emotional complexity can be obtained from the simplicity of a lean, well-written, two-person talkfest. |
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This is possibly the most acutely perceptive political film ever made. |
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His work was lucid, direct, perceptive and totally without affectation. |
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HIS loveness is more human than Goethe's and songs are less passionate, but not less more perceptive and profound than intense or pathetic than Byron's, and Yordsworth's. |
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The face is plump, smooth and almost girlish, with small perceptive eyes. |
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As she takes stock of such attitudes, Ms. Roiphe finds herself doing some wry, perceptive reassessment. |
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The perceptive ones will perceive it anyway, and the unperceptive ones are in God's hands. |
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Cochlear perceptive deafness occurs when part of the sensory cells of the inner ear is deficient. |
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The gnome lives in dualism of reality and virtuality and perceptive people call him patron of home and yard. |
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A witty script and the perceptive cast needed to deliver it make Humble Boy a great cure for the February blahs. |
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To others, he was a creative architect of US military strength, a perceptive analyst of the international scene, and an accurate anticipator of future threats. |
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Yet his narrative is gripping, perceptive, and moving at times, even if his conclusions are highly debatable. |
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More detailed than the triptych, it gives a better perceptive of our policy. |
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A difficulty was that many of the receptors are present only in glabrous skin, even though hairy skin in similarly perceptive. |
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However, the use of a hearing aid is indicated for many people suffering from mild to severe perceptive deafness. |
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If profound perceptive deafness cannot be treated with a hearing aid to obtain sufficient intelligibility, a cochlear implant is recommended. |
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His insight is humbling, deeply grained, outrageously perceptive and full of a signature humour. |
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But as the more perceptive economic commentators have noted, the rosy economic statistics and apparent buoyancy of the Australian economy rest on a house of cards. |
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He marshals Pound's staggering output of poetry, prose and correspondence to excellent effect, and offers clear, perceptive commentary on it. |
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One of our problems is to interest capable and perceptive writers to put it into books in the forms I have already mentioned. |
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However, I believe that this process is still based on the law of cause and effect, but on a level which we are not perceptive enough to realise. |
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Robinson maintained that even at a young age, children are very perceptive and they must be sensitized to violence related issues. |
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A little act of courtesy raises you above the crowd, as does a trifle of perceptive kindness. |
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And, as the enigmatic front man to an avant garde indie rock group, he is droll, perceptive, and splendidly weird. |
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I felt he was a sensitive, poetic, perceptive and natural person. |
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Moreover, new perceptive experiences and the superimposition of virtual and real images force the contemporary receiver, confronted with incessant changes, to adopt a nomadic point of view. |
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The artist's perceptive eye discovers beauty throughout the world around him, from the sensual curve of the female figure, to the glistening of a dewdrop upon a spider's web. |
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He is actually composing a radiophonic piece about the voice as a fictional object in radio and writing a book on the perceptive effects of phonography. |
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There is perceptive analysis of character and relationships, including an ability to see these as evolving rather than static, as well as awareness of thematic and stylistic features through close reading. |
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From then until her death she acted as his business manager and social secretary, dealt with his mood swings and was a perceptive musical critic. |
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This new show from Théâtre Bouches Décousues marks the latest instalment in their affectionate and perceptive exploration of the world of children and their grownups. |
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He was recognized as an intelligent, perceptive ruler with demonstrated success, both by contemporaries and by later historians. |
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A medium of the moment, political cartooning sometimes results in drawings so perceptive and funny that they strike like a lightning bolt, provoking strong reactions among their victims. |
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In Asian countries it now seems easier for a dynasty's founder to pass over talentless playboys in favour of more intelligent and perceptive daughters. |
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Beloved children who have arrived in small numbers, I tell you truly: my perceptive gaze finds everywhere my chosen ones, those who feel in their spirits that now is the time of my presence. |
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Over time children advance from the percipient stage to the perceptive stage, in which they begin to reflect on the significance of events. |
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Her emotional perspective is dry-eyed and perceptive. |
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Truss is a smart, engaging, perceptive, high-spirited, and paralyzingly funny writer. |
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Seeing this recommendation through to fruition will require perceptive leadership at the highest levels and throughout the continuum of medical education. |
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The five senses are dominated by the sixth sense, the mind, and all the consciousness and the perceptive faculty of the aspirant is synthesised in the head, and turns inward and upward. |
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In numerous public and private conversations, I was privileged to have with her over thirty-five years, she was perceptive, incisive, amusing and self-deprecating. |
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The chief economist at the BIS in the runup to the crisis was Bill White, who issued many a perceptive warning about the unsustainability of asset-price inflation at the time. |
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People are not mind-readers, and young people especially are not always as perceptive as adults would like them to be. |
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Meticulously researched it offers perceptive insights into the reception of printed Shakespeare, his publishers and the early owners of Shakespeare's quarto playbooks. |
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As has been pointed out, this is one of the most basic freedoms that we enjoy and we should always be perceptive and reactive to citizens' needs for accessibility in order to exercise that franchise. |
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He had great ideas – perceptive to the highest degree and witty, too. |
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They had extrasensory perceptive capabilities and extreme form of spirituality. |
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The BBC's managers were less perceptive than the great novelist. |
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He was a perceptive writer who used the experiences and the wide range of people he encountered in his works of fiction, generally to humorous effect. |
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She was described as devoted, witty, wise, tactful, and perceptive. |
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He is so perceptive when it comes to other people's feelings. |
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