As they grow up with terrifying psychic powers, a perceptive Midwich citizen, Gordon Zellaby, contrives to blow them up and save humanity.
You and your husband can put on happy faces for a while, but kids are perceptive, and their awareness will grow more discerning with age.
I grow a bit apprehensive too, recalling the words of an extraordinarily perceptive observer of Egypt's struggles in the past: "The edifice of despotic government totters to its fall.
Mr Todd is a madman, yet perhaps in his unquenchable devotion to Dickens he is more perceptive than those who, adopting an austere adult sensibility, grow out of him.
Although some appear in just a couple of scenes, all the characters are drawn with a perceptive sense of the contradictions that color personality, and sometimes grow more pronounced with age.
Yet the novel's happy ending is deceptively simple — of all the book's insights into human nature, the most perceptive regard growing old, as Lively portrays the grace and humiliations of old age with an even hand.
The more perceptive among this cosseted crew know that this truly is a terrific course, even if the USPGA decided to grow stupidly thick rough where the designer, Donald Ross, meant there to be sloping yards of fairway.
As I grew older, I became more perceptive.
In his perceptive memoir of growing up in a household that was postnuclear with a vengeance, Jeff Goodell refers to "my train wreck of a family" and illustrates why that is, if anything, an understatement.
Yet Chie Ito's choreography is sly, growing more complex, and turns into perceptive social commentary.
In his scenes with Cusack, the filial relationship grows plausibly and movingly, thanks to the perceptive eye of the director, Menno Meyjes, and the cinematographer, Robert Yeoman, one of the few who know how to keep a camera still.
