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  • I LIKE TO THINK of myself as a perceptive person (as I suppose we all do) and in setting all this down, it's tempting to pencil a shadow gliding in overhead.†   (source)
  • A perceptive young man, Lopsang was extremely devoted to Fischer; the Sherpa understood how important it was to his friend and employer to get Pittman to the summit.†   (source)
  • Danny is an intelligent, imaginative, perceptive boy.†   (source)
  • The Congolese are skilled at survival and perceptive beyond belief, or else dead at an early age.†   (source)
  • None of us admits to subscribing to the Shrike cult dogma, yet the elders of that perceptive group have chosen us over many millions of the petitioning faithful to visit the Time Tombs… and their fierce god… in what may be the last such pilgrimage.†   (source)
  • "Perceptive," he whispered.†   (source)
  • Usually there is one hardy and perceptive soul who gets it and asks, with something between a smirk and a cringe, the question I'm hoping for.†   (source)
  • Chiron was more perceptive than your average horse-man.†   (source)
  • He recognizes many of the people in here, but as usual, he's surprised and disturbed by the number he doesn't recognize-all those sharp, perceptive twenty-one-year-old faces.†   (source)
  • Nan was too perceptive for him to show his hand in any way, and doing so would just lead to questions that he was not ready to answer.†   (source)
  • She is brave, lovely and, ah-h-h, so perceptive, Jessica thought.†   (source)
  • All the students were bright; many of them extremely gifted and perceptive.†   (source)
  • But Cynthia was a perceptive person, and the fact that she wasn't part of our group just gave her remark more weight.†   (source)
  • Perceptive and correct, thanks.†   (source)
  • At the California Labor School a forceful and perceptive teacher quickly and unceremoniously separated me from melodrama.†   (source)
  • "You're very perceptive for a guy who can go a whole day without talking," she said, peering up at him.†   (source)
  • Hod, Joe, Jesse, travelers straying through a world where last names were seldom exchanged, these had been his "buddies"-never anyone like Willie-Jay, who was in Perry's opinion, "way above average intellectually, perceptive as a well-trained psychologist."†   (source)
  • Your father is many things, but perceptive isn't one of them.'†   (source)
  • It was an able, intelligent, mildly perceptive tour de force and it would never mean anything to anyone.†   (source)
  • A nice guy, Howard, and perceptive.†   (source)
  • The elf's gaze was so perceptive, Eragon was sure that Oromis understood what had transpired.†   (source)
  • She was perceptive and sensitive but had great difficulty expressing herself in a way that was not off-putting to others, and she got loud and angry when she felt disrespected, which was often.†   (source)
  • But Lorenzo turned out to be a perceptive student.†   (source)
  • He laughed quietly, his sunken, shrewd eyes sparkling perceptively with a cynical and wanton enjoyment.†   (source)
  • "You know, Rebecca, you're an extremely perceptive person," he says.†   (source)
  • So much for his perceptiveness.†   (source)
  • Perceptive.†   (source)
  • They did not know how much money old Seth had in the bank, but they were perceptive enough to believe something was there.†   (source)
  • "That is perceptive enough," Brother Jack said.†   (source)
  • "Great activity and animation are observed among our officers and soldiers who manifest an anxious desire to have a conflict with the enemy," wrote the ever-perceptive Dr. James Thacher, who predicted either a "general assault on the town of Boston, or the erection of works on the Heights of Dorchester, or both."†   (source)
  • "You're very perceptive," Sebastian said after a brief pause.†   (source)
  • His lips held the hint of a smile, but his eyes were still, earnest and, for an instant, disturbingly perceptive.†   (source)
  • But the children were particularly perceptive.†   (source)
  • Of course I feared his perceptiveness, what he might have seen of me, or even possibly thought in his young mind.†   (source)
  • You're perceptive, Carlos.†   (source)
  • And on occasion she came up with unsettlingly perceptive observations.†   (source)
  • It gives the few perceptive, enterprising, and wealthy citizens an advantage over the industrious and uninformed mass of people.†   (source)
  • Most people who are able to handle LLI have high levels of empathy and are often very perceptive of others.†   (source)
  • Ootek had been taught a few words of English by Mike, and his perceptivity was so excellent that we were soon able to establish rudimentary communications.†   (source)
  • Wicked and—of course, perceptive.†   (source)
  • Lib is an extremely sensitive, perceptive woman.†   (source)
  • And—since all our perceptive nerve trunks including that of taste are not only perfectible but also capable of trauma—that the sense of taste tends to disappear and that strong, pungent, or exotic flavors arouse suspicion and dislike and so are eliminated?†   (source)
  • "Perceptive brother," I replied.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Brown perceptively analyzed the situation by saying, "We don't have no wheels on our feet, son."†   (source)
  • The older and more perceptive of the boys realized that the shape of the game had shifted and that if they were to count on him to be there, and to be such a fool as always before, they had to act much more friendly; and the more stupid boys, seeing how well this worked, imitated them as well as they could.†   (source)
  • Powell cut him off and below the girl's perceptive threshold explained the reason for the deliberate mistake.†   (source)
  • For a grease monkey slash volleyball player, he was pretty perceptive.   (source)
  • a perceptive eye
  • Renee is so much more …. perceptive than Charlie in some ways.†   (source)
  • You're very perceptive today," he added.†   (source)
  • She was too perceptive not to notice the crusty Band-Aids and my favoring the wound.†   (source)
  • Perceptive enough to know you're evading the question," I say.†   (source)
  • You tell me you love me, you trust me, you think I'm more perceptive than the average person.†   (source)
  • He was perceptive enough to know it was not an acceptance, and again doubt assailed him.†   (source)
  • "Because she's a perceptive little thing.†   (source)
  • I related what I had overheard to Sukeena, who is so perceptive about matters of the spirit.†   (source)
  • Perceptive, cool, taciturn and open by turns, physical.†   (source)
  • She was struck by the almost eerie perceptiveness of that, as well.†   (source)
  • Galt was watching them; his glance was too austerely perceptive.†   (source)
  • Her eyes were softer than her brother's, less intense, but not, Lee thought, less perceptive.†   (source)
  • The children were not merely perceptive; they were resilient.†   (source)
  • Will you make me a trophy for my perceptiveness?†   (source)
  • If the other Endarkened aren't very perceptive, they might not notice."†   (source)
  • She glanced at him: the statement was so oddly perceptive and so incongruously irrelevant.†   (source)
  • His glance had changed; it was watchful, unmoving, implacably perceptive.†   (source)
  • He chuckled suddenly, with a glance of astonishing perceptiveness.†   (source)
  • There was compassion there, deep and perceptive, as if Langdon somehow knew exactly what she was thinking.†   (source)
  • But you, Sadie—you're perceptive.†   (source)
  • "He's very perceptive, isn't he?"†   (source)
  • Or perhaps she was two versions of herself, Ruth 1969 and Ruth 1999, one more innocent and the other more perceptive, one needier, the other more self-sufficient, both of them fearful.†   (source)
  • And the first second that belief in my perceptiveness, that trust, that love is put to the test, it all falls apart.†   (source)
  • I never thought of the Erudite as being particularly perceptive about relationships, or emotions, but Cara's discerning eyes see all kinds of things.†   (source)
  • Just my perceptive nature, I guess.†   (source)
  • Kids were perceptive like that, and at eight years old, she'd reached an age where she knew the world wasn't as simple as she'd once imagined it to be.†   (source)
  • He wasn't the type of sheriff who intimidated people on sight, but he was perceptive and diligent and had a way of getting the answers he needed.†   (source)
  • Angela was too perceptive.†   (source)
  • Wherever he looked, he saw an overwhelming amount of detail, but he was convinced there was even more that he was not perceptive enough to notice.†   (source)
  • However, the new resident commissioner at Passy, John Adams, required closer study, and in an effort to inform London, Alexander provided an especially perceptive appraisal: John Adams is a man of the shortest of what is called middle size in England, strong and tight-made, rather inclining to fat, of a complexion that bespeaks a warmer climate than Massachusetts is supposed, a countenance which bespeaks rather reflection than imagination.†   (source)
  • Perceptive.†   (source)
  • He had already realized that this was an extremely perceptive boy, not so different from Cuthbert, or even Jamie.†   (source)
  • "You're pretty perceptive."†   (source)
  • "That's why I'm perceptive."†   (source)
  • He was a perceptive, graceful, sophisticated man who was sensitive to everyone's weaknesses but his own and found everyone absurd but himself.†   (source)
  • "You're pretty perceptive."†   (source)
  • Like I said, she's perceptive."†   (source)
  • You're very perceptive.†   (source)
  • Colonel Cathcart felt perceptive enough to realize that visible signals of recognition were never necessary between sophisticated, self-assured people like himself and General Peckem who could warm to each other from a distance with innate mutual understanding.†   (source)
  • He looked as if his perceptive eyes were studying the men outside this room, the men who were seeing him across the country; one could not tell whether he was listening: no reaction altered the composure of his face.†   (source)
  • She was looking at the tall figure with the sun-streaked hair, with the suppressed smile in the mercilessly perceptive eyes-she was seeing the struggle to build her Line and the summer day of the first train's run-she was thinking that if a human figure could be fashioned as an emblem of that Line, this was the figure.†   (source)
  • It was his eyes and hair that she saw first-the ruthlessly perceptive eyes, the streaks of hair shaded from gold to copper that seemed to reflect the glow of sunlight in the murk of the underground-she saw John Galt among the chain gang of the mindless, John Galt in greasy overalls and rolled shirt sleeves, she saw his weightless way of standing, his face held lifted, his eyes looking at her as if he had seen this moment many moments ago.†   (source)
  • His face was as it had been in the sunlight of the moment when she had seen it for the first time: a face of merciless serenity and unflinching perceptiveness, without pain or fear or guilt.†   (source)
  • Dagny, whoever among them had any remnant of human perceptiveness would know that you're not one of them, that you're their last link to me, and would not let you out of his sight-or the sight of his spies.†   (source)
  • His was the only face that had the carefree look and the brilliant smile proper to the enjoyment of a party; but his eyes seemed intentionally expressionless, holding no trace of gaiety, showing-like a warning signal-nothing but the activity of a heightened perceptiveness.†   (source)
  • …deceiving the mind of others is an act of raising your victims to a position higher than reality, where you become a pawn of their blindness, a slave of their non-thinking and their evasions, while their intelligence, their rationality, their perceptiveness become the enemies you have to dread and flee-that you do not care to live as a dependent, least of all a dependent on the stupidity of others, or as a fool whose source of values is the fools he succeeds in fooling-that honesty is…†   (source)
  • …struggling to grasp what was missing from his happiness, struggling down the brittle scaffold of a lie over the abyss of the discovery that he was not the man she loved, but only a resented substitute, half-charity-patient, half-crutch, his perceptiveness becoming his danger and only his surrender to lethargic stupidity protecting the shoddy structure of his joy, struggling and giving up and settling into the dreary routine of the conviction that fulfillment is impossible to man-the…†   (source)
  • It was a face that had nothing to hide or to escape, a face with no fear of being seen, or of seeing, so that the first thing she grasped about him was the intense perceptiveness of his eyes-he looked as if his faculty of sight were his best-loved tool and its exercise were a limitless, joyous adventure, as if his eyes imparted a superlative value to himself and to the world-to himself for his ability to see, to the world for being a place so eagerly worth seeing.†   (source)
  • The Japanese team, experts on the extra sensory Node, center of TP perceptivity, insisted that the Node was in curcuit with the Optic Nerve (it wasn't within two millimeters of same) and besieged Dr. Jordan with polite hissings and specious proofs.†   (source)
  • The intense excitement of the events had no doubt left my perceptive powers in a state of erethism.†   (source)
  • She fixed him with her conscious, perceptive eye and asked him if he spoke no French.†   (source)
  • This unsophisticated girl did it by an innate perceptiveness that was almost genius.†   (source)
  • For although in the depths of his soul he was glad that, despite everything that had happened, Settembrini continued to speak with him as he did, continued to teach, to warn, to try to influence him, his own perceptive powers had advanced to the point where he would criticize the remarks and withhold his agreement, at least to some extent.†   (source)
  • …a stanza or melody composed in a dream; it was wonderfully excellent to the half-aroused intelligence, but hopelessly absurd at the full waking; that the first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage; that at the framing of the terrestrial conditions there seemed never to have been contemplated such a development of emotional perceptiveness among the creatures subject to those conditions as that reached by thinking and educated humanity.†   (source)
  • For its own sweet, simple sake, we must totally and fully—oh, and with our highest and most perceptive—settled, ladies and gentlemen!†   (source)
  • People already feel that a man who lives without disturbing a curve of feature, or setting a mark of mental concern anywhere upon himself, is too far removed from modern perceptiveness to be a modern type.†   (source)
  • It did not yield to her hand; and the white curtain, drawn across the window which formed the upper section of the door, struck her quick perceptive faculty as something unusual.†   (source)
  • Tom had never found any difficulty in discerning a pointer from a setter, when once he had been told the distinction, and his perceptive powers were not at all deficient.†   (source)
  • "You're very perceptive," I said, surprised.†   (source)
  • I admire how smart you are, how perceptive, and observant.†   (source)
  • Did I really think she was smart, and perceptive, and patient, and everything else?†   (source)
  • Universally that person's acumen is esteemed very little perceptive concerning whatsoever matters are being held as most profitably by mortals with sapience endowed to be studied who is ignorant of that which the most in doctrine erudite and certainly by reason of that in them high mind's ornament deserving of veneration constantly maintain when by general consent they affirm that other circumstances being equal by no exterior splendour is the prosperity of a nation more efficaciously…†   (source)
  • Mediums They shall arise in the States, They shall report Nature, laws, physiology, and happiness, They shall illustrate Democracy and the kosmos, They shall be alimentive, amative, perceptive, They shall be complete women and men, their pose brawny and supple, their drink water, their blood clean and clear, They shall fully enjoy materialism and the sight of products, they shall enjoy the sight of the beef, lumber, bread-stuffs, of Chicago the great city.†   (source)
  • From the start, he pierced with his perceptive sight Through the veils that hid this evil from light.†   (source)
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