aperçu
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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
James Hayward doesn't mention Muggeridge's aperçu in this account of the career of Arthur Owens, billed as Hitler's chief spy in England and code-named Snow.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 4, 2013
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 Vernon Lee
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
