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".
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.
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.
Dana Spiotta's novel is remarkably perceptive about, among other things, what using the Internet feels like — about its aesthetic, and even moral realities, but perhaps most exceptionally, about the physical force and pressure that it exerts on the mind and on the body.
[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!
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.
Robie H Harris's perceptive text recognises exactly the mixture of anger and grief a child feels when a much loved one dies, and there is no false sentiment.
C. W. E. Bigsby says in a perceptive booklet he wrote on Stoppard for the British Council: While it is clear that none of his characters control their own destiny... it is equally obvious that their unsinkable quality, their irrepressible vitality and eccentric persistence, constitute what Stoppard feels to be an authentic response to existence.
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.
