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

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

Mr. Thorne has often written perceptively about young people — children, adolescents, and early adults — and his latest project, “Sunday,” is set among a group of New Yorkers just starting their grown-up lives.

From New York Times • Sep. 4, 2019

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

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller