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In these tasks, a bidding system is an indispensable tool�but so are attention, memory, psychological perceptivity and clear thinking, plus that obscure talent called "card sense."

From Time Magazine Archive

We hope that when the state of the industry improves, your perceptivity and feel for a complex situation will be employed to do the story of the recovery.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was religious of soul; he had a sort of transcendental perceptivity, so to speak, which kept him more alive to the comforts of religion than to its obligations.

From Saxe Holm's Stories by Jackson, Helen Hunt

It had come to him in a flash of unusual perceptivity that if he did not seize this moment which her softened mood generously offered for effecting a reconciliation, another opportunity might not present itself.

From Imprudence by Young, F.E. Mills

His failure would be no indictment either of his perceptivity or of the merit of the work of art.

From The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Robinson, Harry Perry