The book resembles "an unusually perceptive self-portrait", said Aileen Reid in the Sunday Telegraph.
Surely there are notable exceptions, but in general the typical DeLillo narrator or character employs a distinctive cultivated tone that is urbane, intelligent, morbidly witty, distracted, perceptive, self-consumed and vaguely stoic, even in (especially in) instances where the plots themselves threaten to annihilate reason, order and identity.
Once she does join the group, however, she turns out to be the most perceptive and self-aware of the bunch, not so much participating in the action as providing a mischievous commentary on it.
He added, This is a dark and perceptive examination of self-indulgence and hypocrisy.
It proves that imitation is not the sincerest form of flattery: skewed, perceptive revisions that balance self and selflessness are better still.
In his otherwise perceptive review of Will Self's post-apocalyptic novel "The Book of Dave" (Nov. 12), Nathaniel Rich apparently fails to realize that Arpee and Mokni — the two dialects spoken in Self's futuristic Britain — are neither completely fictional nor wholly Self's inventions.
Demon's Souls has a deep and perceptive understanding of the self-mastery at the heart of gaming.
Self-perceptive, in other words, of the Intimacy Gap -- and the possibility of bridging it.
Moreover, she's self-perceptive of the irony involved in making an experimental narrative video project centered on communication via machines that in real life is employing those same machines (in the form of social media) to help realize the project.
The challenge is being self-assured and perceptive enough to see them.
A passionate lifelong reader, who absorbed the printed word at a speed frightening to anyone who saw her read a page, she was a mesmerizing conversationalist insightful, curious, perceptive, and devilish with a self-deprecating wit.
