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.
Meloy, one of those witty songwriters who sometimes might be too smart for the room, kept his snappy chatter to a minimum, but did manage to reel off a couple of perceptive lines that elicited a few guffaws.
There was no real-life memoir, but the line is perceptive.
When Leon Osman found Romelu Lukaku with a perceptive pass, Pantilimon came off his line to deny the Belgian.
Third is the common belief that those out of step with history, meaning the advance of liberal opinion, must be forced into line with their more perceptive neighbors.
By using a ruler we can convince ourselves that our perception deceives us; by learning more about perceptive mechanisms we can understand why we perceive the lines in the way they do.
That's particularly disappointing, because the normally perceptive Brooks seems to have swallowed a questionable argument hook, line and sinker.
He's also a keen and perceptive retweeter of other people's funny lines.
Shakur stood out from the pack: He was prolific, charismatic and able to deftly walk the line between gangster braggadocios and thoughtful, perceptive lyricism.
Compounds 20, 23, 26, 27 and 28 revealed extensive-spectrum antitumor efficiency to numerous cell lines that belong to various tumor subpanels, while compounds 15, 16 and 19 possessed perceptive activity toward A498 and UO-31 renal cancer cell lines, and compound 17 showed selective effectiveness against NSC lung cancer NCI-H522 cell line.
