Lepore's historical sensibility alerts her to the fact that, although change is sexier than continuity, it typically reveals less about culture.
Differences in travel patterns may also affect the sensibility of the alert.
Jittery, expressionistic abstractions suggestive of landscape, Mr. Kirkeby's works play the pulse of a nervously modern sensibility off the soulfully alert stillness of an ancient traditionalism (Johnson).
Owen's alert, unflinching "sensibility" will exempt him from his own curse, "enabl[ing] him to possess 'whatever' moans, mourns, and shares" the interconnected sorrows of our moral ecosystem.
A great book for dipping into; its energetic quirkiness hides an alert, fiercely perceptive sensibility.
As part of this far-reaching sensibility, Mr. Hamelin is always alert to atmosphere, which is everything in this music.
He writes with acid brilliance about delusional and disappointed men with a foot still in adolescence, but when he foregrounds his own sensibility — self-contained, intellectually confident, alert to incongruities — the result can be dry, with a whiff of performance art.
Though Mr. Andsnes understands Mozartean style, he is alert to the sensibilities of his time.
But US sensibilities have been on red alert ever since the Nipple Ripple at Super Bowl 2004 when Justin Timberlake pulled at Janet Jackson's bustier and exposed the unthinkable to a still-traumatised nation (Did her wardrobe really malfunction? Was it a set-up to boost Janet and Justin's careers? If only Wittgenstein were alive to address these philosophical conundrums).
The leader must be alert to the cultural sensibilities of the participants and their varying states of fatigue; patient with their sometimes mangled English; and deft enough to keep the tone friendly while suppressing chatter.
