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aperçu

[a-per-sy] / a pɛrˈsü /












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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

Once the full force of his Sistine Chapel aperçu is realised, it becomes impossible – at least for me – to regard the visual arts in the same way.

From The Guardian • Aug. 27, 2010

You might as well try to subvert gravitation: "Je m'en suis aperçu étant par terre," is the only result, as in Molière's lesson of physics.

From Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life by Lee, Vernon




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