If he made the original charge without realizing its staggering implications, then he is unperceptive; and if he did realize the implications and went ahead anyway, then he is irresponsible.
The critique, although by no means unperceptive, has an edge to it which derives in large part from the satisfaction Lewis so obviously took in not being grateful.
Hitchcock hints at the same ideas but leaves the sacred cinephile cow coyly untouched; it takes the director at his own tongue-in-cheek estimation of himself, while itself remaining unperceptive and wrongheaded about Psycho.
The impression of parsimony - prudence, like Nurse Cavell's patriotism, not being enough - had to be created in order to retain the support of the still volatile, but apparently unperceptive, suburbs.
Here and there, all alone in the emptiness, squats motionless a Bedouin woman, who, though she seems as unperceptive as a boulder, is keeping an eye on a camel or goat; and we pass a few torn and black Bedouin shelters that might be the old tents of Abraham.
"The perceptive ones will perceive it anyway, and the unperceptive ones are in God's hands".
It was a mystifyingly unperceptive criticism: the point of the work is the contest between Man and the Devil, the same contest Stravinsky explored in greater detail in "The Rake's Progress".
If a foreigner says something off the mark about them, they will heartily agree, thinking it useless to argue with anyone so unperceptive.
She speaks to us directly from the wall texts throughout the show and from a 12-minute excerpt from a documentary that will be presented on PBS on Jan . 3 often in sentences that seem weirdly flat-footed, unperceptive and patronizing.
The unperceptive will be busy believing in magic: crop circles, the unmanipulated image, definitions that defy definition.
