Sentence examples for perceptive as from inspiring English sources

Deborah Black, discerning that memory has a perceptive as well as retentive role, describes memory as "the faculty by which we grasp the individual as such".

All of Quinn's historical analogies are not only funny but remarkably perceptive as well.

Yes, and as true and perceptive as ever.

In April, someone as perceptive as Longstreet probably knew that war was imminent.

Powell's fifth collection of poetry is as powerful and perceptive as his earlier work.

He may not be quite as perceptive as de Tocqueville, nor his book as masterly as its near-namesake.

Ted Hughes's "Collected Poems for Children," many of them also about animals, are as perceptive and as well informed on nature's minutiae.

Don Edwards, Washington: Simply put, please accept my appreciation for your perceptive nature as well as your ability to express it.

Or the perceptive descriptions, as pert as Lorrie Moore's: "She went twice a week to a tanning salon and bleached her hair frequently, so that it looked like radioactive foliage growing out of dark, moody sands".

That McEnroe is perceptive and intelligent as well as appalling makes him an interesting figure.

Mr. Bley has recently published a memoir in which he proves to be a perceptive jazz critic as well as an engaging storyteller.