That the Library of Congress has now chosen to be more selective about its work feels perceptive, and germane to our moment.
I take to heart what Warren Buffett contends of such wealthy inheritors who "might feel themselves perceptive in observing the debilitating effects of food stamps for the poor but would fail to observe that they themselves are the beneficiaries of an almost boundless lifetime supply of privately-funded food stamps bestowed upon them at birth".
Table 6 Verbs that realize the Process in 'mental' clauses in students' writing 1st 5th 10th perceptive discover, feel, meet, see, feel, find, cognitive be sure, know, learn, remember, tolerate, understand, be sure, focus on, know, learn, read, remember, study, think, understand expect, be sure, desiderative want, wish hope, wish emotive enjoy, like, take pleasure in.
[Don't worry, Hills. We're on it. We've just googled David Miliband, and he has a much tighter butt than David Cameron.] I always felt David Miliband was extremely perceptive, and boy did he make my legs go wobbly!
I feel I wasn't very perceptive".
But although the piece is quietly perceptive, I still feel it's an inward-looking play about inward-looking people.
And the piece there by 28-year-old Edith Zimmerman on how the Internet makes her feel old is hilarious and perceptive.
After reading these two perceptive responses, I feel more concerned than ever--not simply about my tendency to repeat but about how comfortable most literary critics have grown with work that is difficult to describe and, increasingly, difficult to defend.
This collection of short essays on sex, religion, friendship and death are so deftly drawn and perceptive that one feels better simply for having read them.
I gave the script to a psychologist friend who made a very perceptive observation: he felt that as a Hollywood stuntman, Jason Colson had a risk-taking personality and that trait would permeate his lifestyle.
Her prose is so perceptive and fluid that it feels mentally healthful, exiling the noise and clutter of your mind as efficiently as a Schubert sonata.
