There's an ambitious, perceptive novel, Love and Treasure – which takes in the Holocaust, feminism and psychoanalysis – and Bad Mother, a collection of essays.
Based on Irving Shaw's novel, Edward Dmytryk's perceptive rumination on love, war, loyalty, and fate is notable for offering one of the first three-dimensional portrayals of a Nazi character, courtesy of Brando, in a surprisingly understated mode.
You've really had an interesting life.' I said, 'Oh, that sounds so terrifying.'" He said, 'No -- the audience is very perceptive, they will love you!' Percy and I started thinking about this years ago when we were in Acapulco with some friends.
I guess this stemmed from his inimitable way of engaging with people, his quick and perceptive mind, his passion for art and love of the Old Masters".
Far more often, though, the author proves herself to be uncommonly perceptive about matters of love and loss.
I love hearing the perceptive feedback from a valued colleague and, since I write about what happens on my own blog, lots of other teachers gain from hearing about the experience, too.
What follows is not only a complex, affecting and surprising love story, but a perceptive critique of a society mired in addictive technology and celebrity status.
While it seems to be dawning on a few perceptive folks that Russia doesn't love NATO, the concern seems at this late stage of the game to be more of the "You mad, bro?" variety.
The person my father had been — the thoughtful one, sage, amiable, perceptive, the person I had always loved — that person still existed.
He had been off and on the hospital floor for so many months that we all knew about his fondness for '60s rock 'n' roll, his perceptive and stalwart wife, the dearly loved young children he so rarely got to see, the outside work he kept up with in the hospital.
