He is also capable of perceptive analysis of his sport – when he can be bothered to answer questions about it.
Reynolds is a perceptive historian of this strange period, capable of making sense of a "movement" that could encompass the cheerful Top of the Pops inanity of the Sweet and the theories of the rock boffin Brian Eno.
(Ramesh Ponnuru has a very perceptive post on this subject).
In his second season with a perennially dysfunctional club, the Portuguese coach appears to have fashioned a side that is not just strong and resilient but, thanks to the perceptive Sneijder and the indefatigable Milito, occasionally capable of dictating the creative flow of a game even against such gifted opposition.
To have the words is to become more perceptive, more attentive – and, we can only hope, more capable of caring for rivers, bison and the windy uplands where our rarest birds shelter.
Accordingly, placebos are able to affect basic perceptive processes.
Students should imagine what it will be like for their recommendation letters to include words like "curious," "mature," "good-natured," and "perceptive" rather than words like "diligent," "ambitious," or, worst of all, "capable".
Her heroines were witty and perceptive even while being vulnerable and appealing; they were independent and capable, yet filled with that weird fear of overdoing everything or doing everything wrong that engulfs the most stunningly competent woman.
Arguably the most pleasing of Divers' gifts were his perceptive, imaginative passing and his deft ball control Left-sided, and therefore usually deployed at inside-left, he was capable of filling any attacking position, his unfailing enthusiasm and admirable discipline completing the picture of a very fine footballer.
