perceptiveness

• “[T] he film's perceptiveness is frequently bracing, capturing the way starry-eyed proclamations and promises can foreshadow uglier truths, and - as in a sterling underplayed scene - the means by which simple gestures such as asking a girlfriend to call your relatives on your behalf can signal a momentous shift in trust and togetherness.”

  GreenCine Daily: Flannel Pajamas.

• “Hopefully Tadpole’s perceptiveness is advanced for her age …”

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• “Sylvan­shine's intuitive perceptiveness is melded with the related talent of another character, the ability to count the number of words in any speech or conversation: I've said 2,742 words right now since I started.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Cure for Head-Exploding Brilliance

• “So, like any good Washington pundit who imagines that proximity translates into perceptiveness, I feel entirely qualified to look into the president's eyes to get a sense of his soul.”

  The Huffington Post: John Feffer: Barack Obama's Secret State of the Union

• “Not about fighting abroad, but about telling the truth about it at home, and about listening to that truth, the film takes us inside a workshop for returning veterans led by Michael Meade, who has worked with Robert Bly and who is praised for "his hypnotic and fiery storytelling, street savvy perceptiveness, and spellbinding interpretations of ancient myths....”

  The Huffington Post: Craig K. Comstock: Welcoming Warriors Home: The Film

• “Based on Irving Stone's popular book, Vincente Minnelli's beautiful, vibrant film tracks Van Gogh's tragic journey into obsessive madness with unusual perceptiveness and insight.”

  The Huffington Post: John Farr: Kirk Douglas Turns 95!

• “Quantitatively, though, the vast majority of cases involve the interpretation of ordinary laws, many of them dauntingly convoluted, many others festooned with decades of glosses by judges of varying perceptiveness writing opinions of varying clarity.”

  Apprentice Kagan

• “Her mind, her sense of curiosity, her perceptiveness, her sensitivity, and her enjoyment of what she did were extraordinary.”

  USA Today: 'Brilliant' Yale senior dies in lab machine accident

• “The attacker is the embodiment of the perceptiveness with which Ferguson has reinforced his squad.”

  The Guardian: Manchester United 2-1 Chelsea (agg 3-1) | Champions League match report

• “Isherwood's unflinching perceptiveness extends even to inanimate objects, as when he takes a hard look at the Watts Towers, those pieces of junk architecture that have become a Los Angeles landmark.”

  The Washington Post: Christopher Isherwood's dairies, "The Sixties"

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