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perceptive adjective acute, apperceptive, astute, aware, cognitive, cognizant, comprehending, conscious, discerning, discriminating, discriminative, easily affected, feeling, impressible, impressionable, keen, mindful, percipient, perspicacious, quick of apprehennion, receptive, responsive, sagax, sensible, sensitive, sharp, shrewd, understanding, wise See also: acute, cognizant, conscious, discerning, discreet, discriminating, esoteric, judicious, juridical, knowing, lucid, omniscient, perspicacious, politic, profound, receptive, responsive, sapient, sensible, sensitive, subtle, vicarious How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Anyone who dismisses this as an aged perv's fantasy is missing how keenly screenwriter Hanif Kureishi understands coming to terms with mortality (and obviously hasn't seen his and director Roger Michell's ``The Mother,'' which looked at a similar situation just as perceptively from an elderly woman's perspective). This third volume in the series about third-grader Winnie (Winnie Dancing on Her Own; Truly Winnie) perceptively examines those "prickly" feelings of envy and insecurity that arise even--or, rather, especially--among best friends. In Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography, Brown perceptively uses Hofstadter's life as a lens through which to view the rise and fall of liberalism. |
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