Around the world, the NTSB's investigations are regarded as setting the gold standard for impartiality, perceptiveness and making recommendations with important safety benefits.
It can be a lonely feeling to be a perpetual outsider, to settle down on a threshold of in-betweendom, but it is the best position for inventiveness, perceptiveness and wisdom – all three of which can be found in abundance in this volume.
For her perceptiveness and her honesty, she was reassigned and marginalized, demoted and silenced.
Yet her scorn for her father's grim idealism allows for a mocking perceptiveness.
The memoirs reveal him as a writer of considerable talent, remarkable for his psychological perceptiveness, his sense of the picturesque, and his vivid narrative.
I've developed a lot of respect for Juliet's perceptiveness in recent years, especially after seeing Lauren Ambrose's smart and spirited interpretation for Shakespeare in the Park in 2007.
Mr. Hargadon, who retired after 15 years at the Ivy League institution, called Ms. Rapelye "one of the country's most respected admission deans" who "has a well-deserved reputation for her thoughtfulness, perceptiveness and good judgment".
Anuradha Roy's Sleeping on Jupiter (for the unshowy perceptiveness with which it addresses big themes such as religious hypocrisy and violence towards women in Indian society. And for daring to foreground three elderly female pilgrims).
The shell-like covering which our souls have excreted to house themselves, to make for themselves a shape distinct from others, is broken, and there is left of all these wrinkles and roughnesses a central pearl of perceptiveness, an enormous eye.
For all his studied perceptiveness and weighty literary references, James possesses an irrepressible comic gift that he could no more abandon than one could expect Gwyneth Paltrow to acquire a sense of humour.
