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

I held Johnson’s aperçu in mind while reading “Somebody With a Little Hammer.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2017

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

He called it an aperçu, "a revelation springing up in the inner man that gives him a hint of his likeness to God."

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English by Various

Herzen’s character sketches and aperçus amount to an intellectual and political history of Russia and Western Europe in the first two-thirds of the 19th century.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

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

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

The title of this fine little book is open, perhaps, to some objection: the contents are not, as a rule, either maxims or reflections, but aperçus; and that is what they should be called.

From The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; On Human Nature by T. Bailey (Thomas Bailey) Saunders