Sentence examples for perceptive powers from inspiring English sources
The election wasn't a test of the perceptive powers of journalists and political operatives.
As you test the virtues of the collection, they test you, probing the depths and exposing the limits of your perceptive powers.
The failure of some nations to acknowledge the one true God is attributed not to God's failure to disclose himself but rather to the debilitating effects of sin on the perceptive powers of human beings.
For the Observations envisions the restoration of a fallen, fragmented, and self-alienated humanity to "perfect manhood," in which all people, without exception, will be "members of the mystical body of Christ," and as such will become "new sets of senses, and perceptive powers, to each other, so as to increase each others happiness without limits" (OM 2, prop. 68; cf. prop. 35).
Peter has a high view of the perceptive powers of the male.
In the past, he has always seemed a designer who reacts to things from his consciousness, a quality that not only set him apart but also gave his fashion extra perceptive power.
It seems he held that the mind essentially has a will, but that the intellectual (or perceptive, or representational) power is more basic, because the will depends on it in its operation.
Lewes's 1859 essay in Blackwood's Magazine is still one of the most perceptive analyses of Austen's powers.
"I told Nora that McAlary sounded like a real" jerk, Mr. Hanks said, using a more piquant word — and a perceptive one, since McAlary's power came from his determination to be the biggest, baddest, bona fide... jerk who ever dug into corrupt cops.
The Bottom Line: Among the Ten Thousand Things brings a family and its members to life in a deeply perceptive, compelling narrative whose emotional power gives weight to the unvarnished prose.
The director, Bennett Miller, works with a vivid, clear script, by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin; as David writes, Miller "is perceptive about behavioral tics and shifts of power between people".
