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
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
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
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 Finck, Henry Theophilus
