Their task was to pick out a vertical or horizontal bar from a striped background an established test of visual perceptiveness.
But in Vietnam, for example, about which Mr Hayton writes with particular perceptiveness, the government faces pressure from critics eager to seize on any instance of "softness" towards China.
His poetry is conventional, but the essays of Tsurezuregusa display a perceptiveness and wit that have delighted readers since the 14th century.
It took 10 years for the movement to acquire its definitive form, its independent vision, and its unique perceptiveness.
The memoirs reveal him as a writer of considerable talent, remarkable for his psychological perceptiveness, his sense of the picturesque, and his vivid narrative.
Guillaume's section of the work the first 4,058 lines reveals him as a courtly poet of great perceptiveness who has mastered the revelation of character through allegorical symbols.
The vista of scrubby, tree-less garrigue makes you question the perceptiveness of the Byzantines and their enthusiastic verdant and fishy tropes.
And now, giving a performance of extraordinary perceptiveness and human breadth, Kenneth Branagh has an almighty crack at Ivanov.
Her three-hander is nobody's idea of "experimental" but it richly deserves the promotion because it achieves what it sets out to do – show how the lives of a trio of women are shaped by their friendship over some twenty-seven years – in a manner that brims over with warm, effervescent humour and sharp, unsentimental perceptiveness.
He is a writer of great intellectual rapidity, perceptiveness, and poetic power.
My own snap test for measuring an American general's perceptiveness was how he pronounced Iraqi names.
