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

In the book, Ned Sublette — Eastman’s close New York friend, a composer, guitarist and musicologist — perceptively remarks that “Julius was only on loan to the white music world.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2021

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

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller