aperçu

I guess we could fault Caleb for this aperçu, but in a novel that purports to be about the slippery idea of authorship, let’s blame Lipstein.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2022

“It’s an aperçu of Alex Trebek, human being. What is he like? What has he done? How did he screw up? Things like that.”

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2020

It includes the source of Judd’s aperçu, a 1974 Art in America article titled “Malevich: Independent Form, Color, Surface,” as well as essays by Yve-Alain Bois and other scholars.

From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2011

If I were to recast Montaigne's aperçu it would be thus: "Mistrust a man who takes games too seriously; it means he may be incapable of taking life seriously enough."

From The Guardian ● Sep. 24, 2010

Goethe had an aperçu of the absence of purity in Greek love when he wrote, in his Roman Elegies:      In der heroischen Zeit, da Götter und Göttinnen liebten.

From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck

Reproduced in Pinckney’s new memoir, “Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan,” those aperçus, which belong in some kind of literary hall of fame, include:

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2022

Tworkov is one of scores who come bearing aperçus in the German American writer and artist Edith Schloss’s memoir, “The Loft Generation,” discovered in rough-draft form after her death in 2011.

From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2021

But Jared’s unforced drollery and naive aperçus resemble nothing so much as late-period Vonnegut.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 1, 2020

Poniewozik contrives many memorable aperçus to indicate Trump’s shape-shifting over the decades, in response to his environment.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 4, 2019

These aperçus left over from the great speculations are the golden threads which successive thinkers weave into the pattern of their thought.

From A Preface to Politics by Walter Lippmann