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delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values)
to ask at that particular time was the ultimate in bad taste
arrogance and lack of taste contributed to his rapid success - a feeling of understanding
- perception of that which is obscure
- the quality of insight and sympathetic understanding
How To Use perceptiveness In A Sentence
- She is known for her intelligence, dry sense of humour, practicality and perceptiveness, almost as much as for her immense wealth.
- His intuitive culinary perceptiveness and sophisticated approach to food culminate in his presentation of world-class cuisine served in the heart of New York City.
- Her mind, her sense of curiosity, her perceptiveness, her sensitivity, and her enjoyment of what she did were extraordinary. 'Brilliant' Yale senior dies in lab machine accident
- [T] he film's perceptiveness is frequently bracing, capturing the way starry-eyed proclamations and promises can foreshadow uglier truths, and - as in a sterling underplayed scene - the means by which simple gestures such as asking a girlfriend to call your relatives on your behalf can signal a momentous shift in trust and togetherness. GreenCine Daily: Flannel Pajamas.
- This single, tantalising insight makes one ache for the novelist's perceptiveness in this uninspiring, ghostwritten memoir. Times, Sunday Times
- Quantitatively, though, the vast majority of cases involve the interpretation of ordinary laws, many of them dauntingly convoluted, many others festooned with decades of glosses by judges of varying perceptiveness writing opinions of varying clarity. Law
- They recognized his originality, intellect, perceptiveness, and verbal wizardry.
- He brought to friendship, as to his work, perceptiveness, integrity and above all enjoyment.
- Not about fighting abroad, but about telling the truth about it at home, and about listening to that truth, the film takes us inside a workshop for returning veterans led by Michael Meade, who has worked with Robert Bly and who is praised for "his hypnotic and fiery storytelling, street savvy perceptiveness, and spellbinding interpretations of ancient myths.... Craig K. Comstock: Welcoming Warriors Home: The Film
- 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