perceptively

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The most important of these was “The Portable Faulkner,” a perceptively organized anthology of novel excerpts and short stories, for Viking Press in 1946.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

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

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2024

As Feldon perceptively demonstrates in her astute memoir, part of "getting smarter" means coming to grips, even embracing our pasts, and all the while knowing better about the future.

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2023

Whenever I hear or see the name Justin Chang, I have an expectation of delight that I will be confronted by the clever, articulate and original expression of a perceptively brilliant mind.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2021

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

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller