Penguin Lives/Viking Press; 208 pages; $19.95Among many recent books on Sir Winston Churchill, John Keegan's stands out as a model of concision and insightfulness about an immense historical personality who helped to shape the world we live in.___________________________________The Victorians.
Once over the hurdle of what to focus on – the montage of imagery, the surtitles (situated impossibly high in the third act), the magnificent singers positioned around the hall, the doughty instrumentalists placed centre-stage – what really gripped one's attention was the ebb and flow of Salonen's conducting and the insightfulness of the orchestral playing.
Not to diminish Rich's insightfulness, but I knew I had to make it more than that".
With your regal elegance, insightfulness and compassion, you inspire me to be better".
She spent most of her adult life in Summit, New Jersey, where her insightfulness and sensitivity led her to graduate school for training as a psychotherapist.
What the ensemble offered was a performance at its typically high standard of polish and insightfulness.
Some people are right on in terms of their performance — or even better, their worst critic — and I think it says a lot about their maturity and their insightfulness and wanting to get better.
The Leopard Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, 1958 As recommended by: HouseofTiles Not always thought of as the most quotable or succinct book, The Leopard is rightly recognised by HouseofTiles for the insightfulness of quotations we do remember – for example, "If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change".
It is the work of an extraordinary artist working at a level of feverish intensity, and offers proof that, to cede again to Nabokov's insightfulness, when Gogol "really let himself go and pottered on the brink of his private abyss, he became the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced".
Her bibliography is patchy despite its slightness – 27 stories and one novel – and yet a handful of her stories rank among the best in American literature, fired by a voice and quality of insightfulness that no other writer shares.
It's a great name, but doesn't evoke insightfulness or self-awareness.
