aperçus

• But some others are using it for wingnut aperçus and touching little anecdotes about their daily lives. —  Sadly, No!
• Très vite, nous nous sommes aperçus que cela ne suffisait pas. —  Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas
• Teems with entertaining anecdotes and introspective _aperçus_ of character. " —  Admiral Farragut
• J'ai été surpris de la justice de vos aperçus sur la Géographie des plantes et des animaux. —  Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville
• The clarity of his language (and here, as a monoglot, I should properly be praising only the clarity of his translators 'language) renders Sebald's looping and discursive prose highly legible; yet those long sentences that seem to spiral up and down in space, and back and forth in time, are also reticulated, capturing within their mesh a shoal of factoids, aperçus and asides - the mental breakdown of Schumann, the life cycle of the silkworm, the desuetude of the Manchester ship canal, Welsh conceptions of second sight, and so on. —  Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk

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