aperçus
- plural of aperçu.
Example Sentences
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Reproduced in Pinckney’s new memoir, “Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan,” those aperçus, which belong in some kind of literary hall of fame, include:
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
But Jared’s unforced drollery and naive aperçus resemble nothing so much as late-period Vonnegut.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 1, 2020
Poniewozik contrives many memorable aperçus to indicate Trump’s shape-shifting over the decades, in response to his environment.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 4, 2019
But she is also capable of arresting aperçus: “There is no writer more poetically articulate about irritation than Updike.”
From New York Times ● May 18, 2018
These aperçus left over from the great speculations are the golden threads which successive thinkers weave into the pattern of their thought.
From A Preface to Politics by Lippmann, Walter