Sentence examples for perceptive words from inspiring English sources

In the perceptive words of Dominic Dromgoole, whose Oxford Stage Company revived it in 2005, "this is no Brechtian epic of incendiary agit-prop".

While Saddam Hussein, in Lévy's perceptive words, was a "tyrant in his autumn, a phantom of 20th-century history... in Karachi, tomorrow's barbarous configurations were being concocted".

It provided, in the perceptive words of British novelist Virginia Woolf, "a centre, a meeting place for the divers activities of a people whom a vast continent isolates [and] whom no tradition controls".

He sings with mesmerising intensity, his voice flexible in range and dynamic, his handling of the words perceptive but never exaggerated.

A keen observer and instigator of Washington leaks, Schorr was equally perceptive about the word leak itself.

Self-perceptive, in other words, of the Intimacy Gap -- and the possibility of bridging it.

But, as so often with Shakespeare, the awesomely perceptive quality of his words came with the grey hair that marked Cicero's wisdom, if not mine own.

Stein's matter-of-fact observations on the difficulty of obtaining certain staples like sugar could be taken as callous except for the vulnerability and fear that come through in her curiously soothing words, alternately perceptive and daffy.

It's worthy of being discussed in the same breath as the novels and plays of Samuel Beckett, of which Christopher Ricks wrote in his bitingly perceptive Beckett's Dying Words: "We know about our wish to go on being, we human beings, our wish not to die.

Especially when the answer isn't likely to be, "I take on board every sensible, accurate word that perceptive reviewer said... " But recently, the tables have been turned.

"How Teenagers Consume Media" reads like a colloquial discussion in the words of a perceptive and articulate 15-year-old.