What is "perceptive"

Usage examples of "perceptive".

One of the most perceptive things I read in the aftermath of the anthrax attacks last fall was written by columnist Jonathan Alter in Newsweek.

The young girl who blasted herself to fame overnight through the good right gun arm of Northwest Smith matured to become one of the most perceptive literary artists the science-fiction world has ever known.

A less perceptive woman would have assumed his surprise had been only for the supper, yet India Parr sensed more than the obvious and unerringly targeted the things he had not said.

Research has shown that self-disclosers are more self-content, more adaptive and competent, more perceptive, more extroverted, more trusting and positive towards others than non-disclosing persons.

However, the new resident commissioner at Passy, John Adams, required closer study, and in an effort to inform London, Alexander provided an especially perceptive appraisal: John Adams is a man of the shortest of what is called middle size in England, strong and tight-made, rather inclining to fat, of a complexion that bespeaks a warmer climate than Massachusetts is supposed, a countenance which bespeaks rather reflection than imagination.

I never told Ooma how the blue-eyed Astorian paid my bill for me, and her perceptive faculties have grown too dull to apprehend a thing she is not told.

Ish and Em would have urged him to stay permanently, but they feared the triangle-situation, even when the outsider was as easygoing and perceptive as Ezra.

Caro Kenilworth had complained once that he always kept something of himself in reserve even when he was love-making--an unusually perceptive remark for her to make, he now realised, as he was confronted with his inability to control his emotions when with Meg, or when thinking of her in her absence.

Triumvirs had contented himself with masturbation until after his marriage, when the perceptive and subtle Maecenas took a hand.

So with the perceptive faculty: discerning in certain objects the Ideal-Form which has bound and controlled shapeless matter, opposed in nature to Idea, seeing further stamped upon the common shapes some shape excellent above the common, it gathers into unity what still remains fragmentary, catches it up and carries it within, no longer a thing of parts, and presents it to the Ideal-Principle as something concordant and congenial, a natural friend: the joy here is like that of a good man who discerns in a youth the early signs of a virtue consonant with the achieved perfection within his own soul.

But, at that, we might reasonably ascribe to the desiring faculty the very perception of the desired objects and then the desire itself to the perceptive faculty, and so on all through, and in the end conclude that the distinctive names merely indicate the function which happens to be uppermost.

Perceptive programning Well talk about branding later, but think about your own perceptions when it comes to the products or services in your life.

You were never the smartest guy in the world, Sully-John, but you were a perceptive son of a bitch.

The more perceptive of the Lanthanides might assume that I was here to do more of the same.

He reminded himself that expert, full-spectrum prisms had a reputation for being unusually intuitive and perceptive.