Sentence examples for imperceptive from inspiring English sources

Nick Platt, the British narrator of "Snowdrops", a pacy debut novel from A.D. Miller (The Economist's former Moscow correspondent and a prince of a man), is not only wet, imperceptive and corrupted, but also nostalgic for the ruthless and decadent Moscow life he left behind.

The poetry was uniformly feeble; Dickens was imperceptive here.

Roth's Everyman is not imperceptive or naïve but helplessly under the spell of mortality: no radical insights, no celestial harmonies, only an unrelenting awareness of unalterable mistakes, an amalgam of bad conscience, gratitude, memory, and longing.

Nor was he imperceptive about himself, or shameless.

But the next day, with a cooler head, I took a higher road: I apologized if my review was imperceptive, but hoped he would appreciate that my heart, whatever the shortcomings of my head, was in the right place.

These men were continually petty, hypercritical and imperceptive in dealing with their allies -- to a degree that has to prompt ruminations about the psychological effects of Britain's decline on its officer corps.