Sentences with phrase «perceptive look»

Akst gives readers another sharp and perceptive look at modern America as he deftly describes a community helpless in the face of mass hysteria and mass media.

The verdict: A perceptive look at what it's like to wrestle with life and death issues.

With The Webster Chronicle, Akst gives readers another sharp and perceptive look at modern America, using as his backdrop a dark period in our country's early history.

A perfectly cast narrative that turns what looks like archetypical cliches into personable and effective characters, Strangers is a extremely perceptive look at modern America and its historical role as a melting pot.

«Drew Tobia's awesomely cynical portrait of a pregnant single Brooklynite alienated from her lesbian sister and mean - spirited mother has a liberating quality embedded in its snide dialogue and perceptive look at urban eccentrics.

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But he is so adept at playing social roles that his manners in another sense please everyone — everyone but the perceptive Fanny, who takes time to look and think.

In a perceptive piece for the Christian Science Monitor, Anya Landau French tried to capture all the factors involved, commenting, «it's hard to imagine what prominent figure really could sway Cuba's leaders off of their course,» and went on to describe the almost «impossible situation» the Church is in — trying to maintain the modest freedoms its been granted, without looking like they are collaborating with a brutal regime.

When we come to the question - and - answer period, a good - looking teen - ager, his brow furrowed, asks a perceptive question which has troubled many people twice his age: «There have been many great religious teachers besides Christ, and millions of good people have followed them.

Looking forward to this game; it's a rare 10:30 PM kickoff here in Oz, compared to the usual 2 - 4AM, which makes for more perceptive and enthusiastic viewing.

If he were Spanish, Italian or German, he would not cost anywhere near # 16.5 m. Yet, even amid the disturbing inflation scarring English football, Jones looks a perceptive piece of business by Alex Ferguson.

Trips to the dry cleaner get expensive, yet perceptive consumers know how to look stylish while maintaining dollars in the wallet.

A simple vision, such as a basic screening that is done at school, does not look for other eye or perceptive conditions.

Whilst not resiling from a LibDem position Laws is perceptive and judicious when looking at policies and personalities.

Marketing firm Jana asked 1,500 18 to 30 - year - olds in nine countries, pictured, where they go online when looking for a relationship.Facebook was the most popular across the board, with Twitter coming in second and even My Space making the top three in certain regions The highest proportion of people who had met someone online was in Vietnam, at 67 %, pictured, whereas only a quarter of people in Brazil said they had gone on online dates.Text appeal: Women describing themselves as sweet, ambitious or thoughtful are more likely to attract male attention and receive admiring messages on online dating websites (illustrated), while men who claim they are physically fit or describe themselves as perceptive, passionate or optimistic prove more irresistible to women A study of 12,000 online dating profiles posted on e uk found that women describing themselves as sweet, ambitious or thoughtful are more likely to attract male attention and receive admiring messages.

She is very perceptive and I feel she really got who I was and what I was looking for.

Anchored by a sensational Charlotte Rampling as its lead, the movie combines Haigh's perceptive style with shades of Mike Leigh's «Another Year» to create a quietly moving and deceptively tragic look at aging romance haunted by past mysteries.

Lady Bird, a coming - of - age story starring Saoirse Ronan that The A.V. Club's own A.A. Dowd said is «so funny, perceptive, and truthful that it makes most other films about adolescence look like little more than lessons in cliché.»

2005's semi-autobiographical The Squid and the Whale is a perceptive, and pitiless, look at a family in crisis, one that earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

We're not entirely sure if «menopause drama» is an accepted cinematic genre but on the strength of this perceptive and buoyantly hilarious Gallic jewel, perhaps it's about time that we looked into it.

Now, 30 years later, the film holds up not only as an insightful look into teenage life in the»80s, but also as one of the most honest and perceptive depictions of the teenage experience to be captured on celluloid.

Lady Bird is something truly special: a coming - of - age comedy so funny, perceptive, and truthful that it makes most other films about adolescence look like little more than lessons in cliché.

Connery and Pfeiffer are both excellent, but much of the film's pleasure comes from watching the consummate pros filling out the roles of various bureaucrats, among them James Fox (as a perceptive MI6 head), Roy Scheider (as a wily CIA chief) and director Ken Russell (as an excitable British official — and amusingly looking like Bernie Sanders with bedhead).

Beautifully written and uncannily perceptive, this is a probing look at the tensions that lurk beneath the surface of every close relationship.

Restrained, perceptive and a bit sad, The Paris Wife is a look at a time and a marriage that weren't as glamorous and carefree as we'd like to believe.

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We have also noted your perceptive inputs on the sightseeing and activity options that can be availed at the hotel and are re looking at our internal standards to understand your feedback better.

What we are looking for: We're looking for perceptive, ambitious future lawyers.

Kids are a perceptive lot, and they won't like it if they're given a device that doesn't look the part.

Whereas other platforms, like Android Wear, have focused on touch, Apple has looked instead to physical controls, borrowing the physical dial from traditional timepieces, and throwing in a newly perceptive touchscreen.

A. Those who are perceptive, those who can look at you and get your sense of style, what kind of home would be appropriate for you, and what kind of home wouldn't even be worth mentioning, because nobody likes to waste time.