Sentence examples for perceptive that from inspiring English sources

He is extraordinarily bright and perceptive — that means you'd better know what you're doing when you go in, and you'd better know how you're going to get it, because he does.

How interesting, and how perceptive that answer was.

Some critics will tell you Saatchi never was perceptive – that he has no taste, just a big wallet.

This collection of short essays on sex, religion, friendship and death are so deftly drawn and perceptive that one feels better simply for having read them.

Humphrey praised the program, yet added criticism that Miss Koner found so perceptive that she sought out Humphrey and asked her to be her adviser, her "outside eye," as she called her.

Jesus would have nothing to do with emperors or synods, or, if he did, would say something so wonderfully profound and perceptive that everyone would follow him at once.

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.

Kind and generous, Mary was penetratingly precise and perceptive (aspects that made her writing so considered and memorable), and she was no pushover.

Fifty-six years before President Obama talked with Fidel's brother, Raúl, at a Summit of the Americas meeting in Panama City, Nixon produced a long and perceptive memo that concluded: "My own appraisal of [Castro] as a man is somewhat mixed.

Altogether lighter than Peace's novel, The Damned United is an entertaining and perceptive film that cuts between Clough's struggles at Leeds and flashbacks to his time at Derby.

Her programme consisted of Beethoven's three last piano sonatas, played in numerical order with the perceptive thoughtfulness that characterises everything she plays, and couched in her usual silvery tones and elegant, lyrical phrasing.