perceptively
- a word derived from perceptive.
Example Sentences
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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
As Feldon perceptively demonstrates in her astute memoir, part of "getting smarter" means coming to grips, even embracing our pasts, and all the while knowing better about the future.
From Salon • Jan. 23, 2023
I think it earns just about all of them, given how gradually and perceptively it tracks its characters’ journey, as friends and individuals.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2022
And former Defence Minister Thomas de Maizière picked the perceptively entitled 1980s Europop hit Life Is Life in 2014.
From BBC • Dec. 2, 2021
He laughed quietly, his sunken, shrewd eyes sparkling perceptively with a cynical and wanton enjoyment.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
