It is in his depictions of the Klumps that Mr. Murphy exhibits perceptiveness and depth.
One hopes her taste for the work of Thornhill had not entirely lapsed by then — as her youthful priggishness had abated into the wise compassion, ironic humor, and psychological perceptiveness that characterize her novels.
Witty observation of the way people are and the way they talk, the sort of sharply penetrating perceptiveness that makes me want to run into the street and hug somebody with sheer delight.
The deft wielding of the facts by (as it were) Toibin the journalist and critic would be mere window dressing without the acute psychological perceptiveness that informs the author's portrait of his subject.
This artist who lived and worked in 17th-century Amsterdam, who in his lifetime was rich and poor and happy and ruined, who painted portraits of such depth and perceptiveness that when you stand in front of one you feel challenged by the living essence of a person looking straight back at you, does not need to be namechecked to make him profound, arresting or timeless.
The other technology is called "Quick-Touch Panel" and is a special software that increases the perceptiveness of the touchscreen for both scrolling and multi-touch gestures.
In the case of Western women, the "emotional receptivity and perceptiveness" that is encouraged in women is likely to enhance the skill of self-discovery and hinder those of self-definition and direction; whereas for men in Western cultures the opposite is likely to be the case (Mackenzie & Stoljar 2000a, 18).
Empathizing in this way requires an objectivity and perceptiveness that is quite compatible with the rule of law.
So Betty's trying to lose weight, and she's trying, with the help of Weight Watchers' sincere and admirably earnest pop psychology, to assume the kind of maturity and perceptiveness that don't come naturally to her.
Perhaps Nézet-Séguin, informed by the perceptiveness of Girard's production, realized that this moment was the point of resolution toward which the entire opera had been heading, and finally provided the deep-focus intensity of absolute expressive commitment.
