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  • adverb In a perceptive manner.

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  • adverb in a perceptive manner

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Examples

  • In his time, Duveen was seen as a great opportunist; he perceptively saw that declining wealth in Europe would make important artworks in private collections and museums available for purchase at distressed prices.

    Stephanie Adamowicz: The Legacies of Duveen, Castelli, and Gagosian Stephanie Adamowicz 2011

  • And inside, claims the effusive press release, Nicholson writes "thoughtfully and perceptively" about middle-class women and their families, and in so doing "boldly goes where no man has gone before".

    All the Hopeful Lovers by William Nicholson - review Laura Barnett 2010

  • Finally, he perceptively identified problems inherent in public regulation and ownership of inner block open spaces and saw the necessity of assuming community maintenance of public areas:

    Charles R. Wolfe: Visioning Neighborhood and the City, Then and Now Charles R. Wolfe 2011

  • In his time, Duveen was seen as a great opportunist; he perceptively saw that declining wealth in Europe would make important artworks in private collections and museums available for purchase at distressed prices.

    Stephanie Adamowicz: The Legacies of Duveen, Castelli, and Gagosian Stephanie Adamowicz 2011

  • Finally, he perceptively identified problems inherent in public regulation and ownership of inner block open spaces and saw the necessity of assuming community maintenance of public areas:

    Charles R. Wolfe: Visioning Neighborhood and the City, Then and Now Charles R. Wolfe 2011

  • From the vantage point of the twenty-first century, it is fascinating to watch the rapid innovations in science and technology overtake their fictional anticipation and to return to our most speculative and fantastical literature to see how perceptively it anticipated the social and geopolitical transformations — and challenges — these innovations would inspire.

    Final Deadline Approaching: ‘American Literature’ Special Issue on SF, Fantasy, and Myth « Gerry Canavan 2010

  • In Velázquez, Mr. Bailey perceptively observes, "we detect a man, who, despite being a civil servant, cocooned in his courtier's garb, went on asking piercing questions and creating in his art a radiance of duality and doubt."

    A Peaceable Canvas Jonathan Lopez 2011

  • Ms. Orlean, a staff writer for the New Yorker, explores "the life and the legend" of Rin Tin Tin and perceptively illuminates both.

    The Dog Star Scott Eyman 2011

  • When we went to an online "Terms of Service" check box, deals came in at a perceptively faster rate (I don't have the actual stats - too long ago).

    Online Agreements Accelerate Sales 2009

  • Finally, he perceptively identified problems inherent in public regulation and ownership of inner block open spaces and saw the necessity of assuming community maintenance of public areas:

    Charles R. Wolfe: Visioning Neighborhood and the City, Then and Now Charles R. Wolfe 2011

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