Sentence examples for perceptive ideas from inspiring English sources

In the case of the new Guillaume Tell, it seems as if the context of its rape scene, placed where the third-act ballet should have been, in a poor production updated to present-day Balkans but otherwise apparently lacking in perceptive ideas, added to the disapproval.

All too often, a small and perceptive idea is dressed up in clothes two sizes too large and trotted out as a theory.

The most perceptive idea in writer-director Jeremy Ungar's L.A. neo-noir "Ride" is that the driver protagonist, James (Jessie T. Usher), has been trained to treat his customers like friends, and they're accustomed to reciprocating.

He had great ideas – perceptive to the highest degree and witty, too".

I believe the younger generation are at such an age where they are more perceptive to new ideas and new concepts, and that's why it started taking off".

Here was a complex, multifaceted man of ideas, a perceptive publisher and skilled entrepreneur who spawned an impressive array of remarkable books; a notable host who promoted searching discussion of world affairs; a committed Zionist as well as a convinced European who worked hard for reconciliation between Jews and Germans, and for common goals between Europeans.

But the novel commands a realm far more perceptive than the "exchange of ideas" that, in familiar lingo, is heralded as communication, and means only what the crowd knows.

Daniel Mendelsohn's review of James Wood's debut novel, "The Book Against God" (July 6), is the kind of review one imagines Wood could have written: deeply perceptive and full of illuminating ideas.

They might be in the pay of heartless corporations, and they might also be perceptive people with smart, subversive ideas.

At the same time, be perceptive and open to new ideas about what you define as "love".

Perceptive readers did get the idea without being told explicitly what it was.