She was perceptive, wise and kind, and had an astonishing capacity for remembering the names of students, even after very brief encounters.
You might describe someone as cocky and perceptive, or as kind and shy.
When both of us were having a difficult time, one way or another, he'd make some kind of perceptive joke that restored one's equanimity.
Hilda is also a very appealing character — perceptive and buoyant — the kind that points out plants emerging through cracks in the pavement, and says things like "I appreciate discreet things" and "That's not a good reason for being rude".
One of the primary proponents of this kind if perceptive computing has been Intel, who has an entire group devoted to exploring this kind of computer visualization to make computers 'aware' of their surroundings.
A lot of the film is, indeed, edgily funny, as in a moment where the other girls laugh when Precious says "insect" instead of "incest" and she comes back: "Are you a scientist now?" Another practitioner of tough love (or what we used to call being cruel only to be kind) is a perceptive social worker, Mrs Weiss (Mariah Carey), whose ethnic identity and social background intrigue Precious.
Try this: Think of one or two people who are close to you and are both kind and highly perceptive -- and ask them what patterns they see in you.
A close spiritual cousin to the mad maverick mother portrayed by Kate Nelligan in Mr. Weller's "Spoils of War" (1988), Lindy has been endowed with a flashy wit and the kind of acerbic, startlingly perceptive lines one associates with brilliant, unhinged women as conceived by male writers.
"Rather than just focusing on getting people to speak from the outside, you are training up their perceptive system, bombarding it with all kinds of stimuli before you get them to produce speech".
(Why work so hard to shut others out? Why not make oneself useful for a change?) But Jacob is just the kind of junior criminal smart, devilishly perceptive, secretly sentimental with whom I really can identify.
