perceptively

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The influential critic Edmund Wilson, who helped establish Hemingway’s literary reputation, perceptively stated “his prose is of the first distinction” and conveys “profound emotions and complex states of mind.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

You did have somebody like Mark Twain write really perceptively about the hypocrisies of that age.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2025

As a middle-class hero himself, Singh was expected to deal with Hazare's demands more perceptively.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2024

Wade’s portrait of Sayers, one of England’s most private writers, perceptively illuminates her fierce independence, her complicated relationships and her often grotesque novelistic imagination.

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2020

He laughed quietly, his sunken, shrewd eyes sparkling perceptively with a cynical and wanton enjoyment.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller