perceptive

How To Use perceptive In A Sentence

• If a certain amount of begrudgery is the unavoidable product of such a position of eminence, it is neither fair nor perceptive.
• We can obviously say nothing immediate about how the central sense-excitations would be sensed independently of the latter; thus Weber's Law, too, concerns only apperceived sensations, and therefore can just as well have its basis in the processes of the apperceptive comparison of sensation as in the original constitution of the central sensory excitations. Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt
• The term aesthetics was coined in the eighteenth century by the German philosopher Alexander Baumgarten from the Greek word aisthetikos meaning “perceptive, especially by feeling”. MARKETING AESTHETICS
• He was sharply perceptive and had an earthy, sly humour which put an edge on his nice irony.
• This is a very perceptive assessment of the situation.
• Her pedestrian, low-brow, unperceptive prose has struck a chord with the so-bad-it's-good brigade.
• Behind every brilliant best-selling author is usually a perceptive, savvy publisher.
• So, like any good Washington pundit who imagines that proximity translates into perceptiveness, I feel entirely qualified to look into the president's eyes to get a sense of his soul. John Feffer: Barack Obama's Secret State of the Union
• He's always happy to talk, frank in his opinions, entertaining in his manner and perceptive about whatever matter is in hand.
• I'm all for good satire, the sharp and perceptive deflating of pretense, pompousness or deceit.