It is a keen perception of the ridiculous carried to sublimity.
"There is definitely a keen perception of the risks involved," he says.
The most successful authors are those who have undefeated persistence, skill, and a keen perception of what an audience will be receptive to.
Leading European figures whom she interviewed, with a keen perception of personality, included Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Joseph Stalin, Sir Winston Churchill, Léon Blum, Gustav Stresemann, Eamon de Valera, Edvard Beneš, and Kurt von Schuschnigg.
Bill Blass, the American designer who built a multimillion-dollar business on understated clothes and a keen perception of the taste of upper-income American women, died last night at his home in New Preston, Conn.
Taken to Vietnam as a small child, Mus grew up in Hanoi, where he attended high school with upper-class Vietnamese students, forming a keen perception of Vietnamese life that is reflected in his writings.
Her words reveal a keen perception of double standards in a society that tells young women they can have all the same dreams men can, study at any academic institution they wish and aim for any career path they choose, whilst simultaneously inundating them with an onslaught of daily messages that as women they will be judged almost exclusively on the basis of their looks, regardless of success.
"His coverage of the White House demonstrated a particularly keen perception of relationships among principals and how these relationships influenced official policy," the judges noted.
In 1962 he was awarded the Nobel prize "for his realistic as well as imaginative writings, distinguished by a sympathetic humour and a keen social perception".
Though she was haunted by an ideal of spiritual purity that demanded self-denial, Christina resembled her brother Dante Gabriel in certain ways, for beneath her humility, her devotion, and her quiet, saintlike life lay a passionate and sensuous temperament, a keen critical perception, and a lively sense of humour.
He was a devout Muslim whose keen perception and cool head had kept us out of trouble.
