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perceptive and journalist
Suttner was also a journalist, with one historian stating her work revealed her as " a most perceptive and adept political commentator ".
His appearance prompted The Guardian newspaper journalist Madeleine Bunting to describe him asone of the most perceptive commentators featured in the series ’.

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The perceptive wit of Clive James and Andrew Denton has been popular in the talk-show interview style.
Knowing that Jaspers creates exceptionally perceptive, penetrating individual minds, Dasein realizes that he has offended a communal id that feels threatened by him.
The review in Variety noted the performances of the lead actors: " Anouk Aimee has a mature beauty and an ability to project an inner quality that helps stave off the obvious banality of her character, and this goes too for the perceptive Jean-Louis Trintignant as the man.
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times called the film " one of the most perceptive, funny, occasionally painful portraits of an American woman I've seen " and commented, " The movie has been both attacked and defended on feminist grounds, but I think it belongs somewhere outside ideology, maybe in the area of contemporary myth and romance.
His elegy on John Donne has been praised as both a masterpiece of criticism and a remarkably perceptive analysis of the metaphysical qualities of Donne's literary work.
While academic attention has remained, perhaps disproportionately, focused on poetry from Northern Ireland, several of the younger generation of Irish poets ( William Wall, Justin Quinn, Caitriona O ' Reilly ) have proved perceptive and independent critics of the contemporary scene, as have several older poets who are also literary critics, such as Hugh McFadden, Dennis O ' Driscoll and Michael Smith.
Having lost any moral sense that he may have left, Leo leaves Kira to begin a new life as a gigolo, fulfilling the earlier portrayal of him as such by Kira's perceptive cousin Irina ( who has been sentenced to a long prison term for associating with counter-revolutionaries ).
He also describes himself as " not very good in thinking around corners ", meaning he has a very practical character, never really seeking other meanings or intentions behind what he sees, although he is very perceptive and intelligent.
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times observed, " In America is not unsentimental about its new arrivals ( the movie has a warm heart and frankly wants to move us ), but it is perceptive about the countless ways in which it is hard to be poor and a stranger in a new land.
Robert Lovett has been recognized as one of the most capable administrators to hold the office of secretary of defense and as a perceptive critic of defense organization.
A recent reissue of Paul Britten Austin's translation of Doktor Glas into English, as Doctor Glas, and with a perceptive introduction by Margaret Atwood, has meant a rise in his popularity in the Anglo-Saxon literary world.
A design strategist has the ability to combine the innovative, perceptive and holistic insights of a designer with the pragmatic and systemic skills of a planner to guide strategic direction in context of business needs, brand intent, design quality and customer values.
After this historic invention, sensory substitution has been the basis of many studies investigating perceptive and cognitive neuroscience.
: Even though Ran has a laid-back attitude, she is very sharp, perceptive, wise, and intelligent.
Today's World Tonight reporters may not have come from the same stable but the emphasis on perceptive, contextual reporting has remained.
He has been described by the Guardian asone of today ’ s most perceptive observers and historians of religion ”.

perceptive and title
*" Kikimora ": At a first-class hotel, Elsa discovers how perceptive the title character, a black cat, can be, as compared to a husband.

perceptive and one
His housemaster, R. H. J. Brooke, whom Peel described as " extraordinarily eccentric " and " amazingly perceptive ", wrote on one of his school reports, " Perhaps it's possible that John can form some kind of nightmarish career out of his enthusiasm for unlistenable records and his delight in writing long and facetious essays.
Some writers, such as Bruce Olds, describe him as a monomaniacal zealot, others, such as Stephen B. Oates, regard him as " one of the most perceptive human beings of his generation.
One cannot be considered wise, or perceptive, if one does not attempt to understand the origins, and establish the correctness, of one's beliefs.
The essential basis he finds in the real consciousness, of self as an active striving power, and the stages of its development, corresponding to what one may call the relative importance of the external conditions and the reflective clearness of self-consciousness he designates as the affective, the perceptive and the reflective.
He showed an unexpectedly warm and perceptive side of his nature when he took over for one week the life, family and income of a single mother living on benefits in Wallasey-When Michael Portillo became a Single Mum, ( 2003 ).
The poor, crazy lady in the hair-dresser's is a schematic and surely rather portentous case in point ; so is the Zoo, and Harrods, Jo's gloomy hats, and that windmill love nest, and the tiresome ambiguity of that psychiatrist off to Tenerife ( is he perceptive, or unsympathetic, a good doctor or just a fashionable one ?).
In 2002 the Chicago Tribune, in a review of The Short Life and Happy Times of the Shmoo, noted: " The wry, ornery, brilliantly perceptive satirist will go down as one of the Great American Humorists.
Roger Ebert was much more positive, calling it a film of " new faces and inspired insights and genuine laughs " and " one of the smartest, funniest, most perceptive satires in a long time " that " not only invites comparison with The Graduate, it earns it ".
As an introduction to the " An Introduction to Islam " video in 2006, Zawahiri encouraged westerners to heed Gadahn's message and praised Gadahn as " a perceptive person who wants to lead his people out of darkness into the light "; " Al Qaeda had never before given one of its members, let alone an American, an endorsement so intimate and direct.
Still widely regarded by her readers as one of her most perceptive and most flawlessly executed novels, especially given its huge canvas.
To assess a situation, one should put out exploratory feelers and initially adopt a perceptive rather than judgmental attitude ; conflict resolution skills can be helpful.
For many years it was widely assumed that Schnitzler was merely one of the earliest and most perceptive of Freud's many literary disciples.
He was one of the most devoted and perceptive physicists only satisfied with deep understanding of any concept and his interest increases with the strangeness or significance of the phenomenon.
The author of many cricket books, he is regarded as one of Australia's finest cricket writers, with a perceptive and occasionally sardonic style, marked by persistent criticisms of Bradman.
Lord wrote to the Governor, " I watched her change into one of the most perceptive, thoughtful, helpful and profound human beings that I have ever known, either inside or outside of a prison.
Wilhelm Altmann, one of the most influential and perceptive chamber music critics of all time, writing of Thieriot's chamber music, states:
The language and concepts of the answers are often abstruse and esoteric, but one may get from them glimpses that are rational and perceptive.

perceptive and books
A perceptive subset of those readers — perhaps the majority — know that this so-called epic actually consists of two long and mutually dependent tales, the two Hyperion stories combined and the two Endymion stories combined, broken into four books because of the realities of publishing.
His daughter Meriel Buchanan wrote several perceptive books about the revolution, which she witnessed, and key figures she had personally known.
She reviewed a wide range of books, but focused especially on contemporary poetry ( for instance, in perceptive reviews of Anna Akhmatova and Pound's Pisan Cantos ).
Among his books, he edited Rugby The Great Ones ( 1970 ), wrote perceptive short profiles to accompany John Ireland ’ s illustrations for the anthology Rugby Characters ( 1990 ), and in 1996 produced his autobiography, Cliff Morgan: Beyond the Fields of Play ( with Geoffrey Nicholson ).

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His bold eyes raked the woman, and a perceptive spectator might sense that there was more to their relationship than that of slave to owner.
Hereby, the external object viewed by the eyes remains the thing that is seen, not the retinal image, the purpose of which would be to achieve perceptive cooperation by stirring sympathetic impulses in the other sensory centers, motor tensions, associated word symbols, and consciousness.
More specifically, it aims to develop faculties of perceptive imagination, inspiration and intuition through cultivating a form of thinking independent of sensory experience, and to present the results thus derived in a manner subject to rational verification.
As the generations progress, Blackadder becomes increasingly clever and perceptive, while his social status steadily erodes ; however, each Blackadder remains a cynical, cowardly opportunist, maintaining and increasing his own status and fortunes, regardless of his surroundings.
Her strong technique, her perceptive reading of her subjects, and her ability to flatter without falsifying, were traits similar to his.
The following traits have been identified as those that predict leader emergence when there is no formal leader: high intelligence, high needs for dominance, high self-motivation, and socially perceptive.
Jim Rockhill's introductions to the three volumes of the Ash-Tree Press edition of Le Fanu's short supernatural fiction ( Schalken the Painter and Others, The Haunted Baronet and Others, Mr Justice Harbottle and Others ) provide a perceptive account of Le Fanu's life and work.
She is perceptive enough to penetrate Nick's adopted persona, deeply disturbing him even though she fascinates him.
This perceptive experience is itself the flow of the moving atoms ; and like the changeable and unchangeable forms, the form from which the flow traverses is shed and shattered into even smaller atoms, atoms of which still represent the original form, but they are slightly disconnected and of diverse magnitudes.
According to him, both are related to the primary perceptive ability of animals, which gathers the perceptions of different senses and defines the order of the things that are perceived without distinguishing universals, and without deliberation or logos.
Kripke's book generated a large secondary literature, divided between those who find his skeptical problem interesting and perceptive, and others, such as Gordon Baker and Peter Hacker, who argue that his meaning skepticism is a pseudo-problem that stems from a confused, selective reading of Wittgenstein.
Like Thomasina, Chloe is very perceptive and intelligent.
He also wrote perceptive novels on political, social, and gender issues, and on other topical matters.
Though at times done in by his own despotic tendencies, Justinian was a talented and perceptive ruler who succeeded in improving the standing of the Byzantine Empire.
Flaccus was a perceptive politician who looked for young and emergent men to support him.
James produced a small but valuable amount of theatrical criticism, including perceptive appreciations of Henrik Ibsen.
" Even if the commercial and industrial element is weak, it must be strong enough ( or soon become strong enough ) to become worthy of co-optation, and the French Revolution terrified enough perceptive elements of Prussia's Junkers for the state to be sufficiently accommodating.
It is the lack of neurosis, an impression of an amiable monkey, that makes him seem rather dated: a more perceptive Gable, perhaps, or even a loping Midwest Grant.

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