Sentences with phrase «so perceptive»

Perhaps this natural tendency to distrust is what makes security analysts so keen at threat hunting, so perceptive to see a glimmer of anomalous activity in a stream of «normal.»

«Emma is always saying how reserved Jane is, even Mr. Knightley says so, and he's so perceptive about everyone.

Writer - director Nicole Holofcener is so perceptive about women whose lives are not defined by men; that's rare in the movies.

She's so perceptive and intelligent and compassionate, and it doesn't hurt that her mellow, under - the - radar vibe fits the role perfectly.

«Every now and then I see a movie that's so perceptive; so clear - eyed in its criticism of modern culture, that it floors me.

Of course, «It Happens One Night» comes to mind, but The Sure Thing is so sparkling and original in its humor, so perceptive about human nature in its own right, that its key elements seem classic, not carbons.

So perceptive!

«Thats so perceptive» I hear you say, but my point is that I find Christian women are more receptive to debate these issues.

(If your article is actually about a writer's failings — if the whole point of the piece is to ask how a man could be so perceptive in some ways and yet so moronic in others — then that of course is something else entirely.)

Not exact matches

How could we have ignored for so long the need for female experience in the clergy if the ministry is to be fully perceptive and balanced?

Those who are most sensitive and perceptive have abandoned them, sometimes because they wished to do so, more often because traditional faith has simply lost the power to shape vision and experience and to guide action.

Clark Pinnock, in a perceptive paper entitled «The Inerrancy Debate Among the Evangelicals,» warns that men like Francis Schaeffer and Harold Lindsell «tend to confuse the high view of Scripture with their own interpretation of it, so that unless one agrees with their reading of the text he may be described as an unsound evangelical or no evangelical at all.

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.

So whereas the memory event - sequence repeats the remembered pattern through occasions all of which are part of the person, a perceptive event - sequence repeats the perceived pattern through a series some of whose members in principle are outside the person.

But some internal rhythms can be so attuned that they register and reinforce the rhythms of distant vibrations; these are the ones that are «perceptive» of the distant, or ontologically conjoined by virtue of mutually supportive or organically connected harmonies.

His colleagues, less perceptive and less able than he, were becoming a new «enemy» and he took refuge in a sarcasm he could handle so brutally.

Much of the war he spent poaching in the uniform of the Royal Artillery, his talents having been recognized in his early training days in Scotland by a perceptive commanding officer, who sent him on leave to Breconshire to collect his gaff, then relieved him of normal duties so that he could get to work on the Scottish salmon for the benefit of the Officers» Mess.

Of everything that has been written on the Euro crisis so far, I think one of the most perceptive and insightful pieces was an op - ed by Anne Applebaum all the way back in September 2010 (doesn't that feel like a long time ago?)

You're incredibly perceptive and uplifting, so your color reflects this vision, focus, and projection.

Yorgos Lanthimos has distanced himself from the mere notion of promising filmmakers and made «The Killing of a Sacred Deer,» a movie so strikingly perceptive that it moves him into the company of greater, more assured voices in the medium.

So it comes as quite a surprise that Bright Sunshine In (Un beau soleil interieur), which stars a moody and moving Juliette Binoche as a 50 - something artist and divorced mother who has an extremely hard time getting — let alone knowing — what she wants, can be funny, rather light on its feet, yet incredibly perceptive about the very complicated lives and relationships we lead, especially when they involve members of the opposite sex.

REMEMBER ME is a turgid excuse for a perceptive character study / romance that pins its hopes on a twist that is not so much a jolt as an affront.

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.»

Still, even if While We're Young stumbles a bit towards the end, it's still one of the funniest and most perceptive comedies to be released so far this year.

It is so beautifully sure and perceptive in its record of one year in the life of a couple happily married, and their relatives and friends, not so happy.

His ability to be both perceptive and humorous is rarely captured so well on screen.

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.

Older kids are bit more perceptive, so a nice hearty cough might not work.

Such children tend to be — analytical, observant, perceptive, discerning and action oriented, so crucial to their maintaining a right relationship with fellow human beings and to nature.

And so we come to the 991 Carrera S. Start it up with that same chunky style of key it now shares with the Cayenne and Panamera, and the distinctively guttural flat - six soundtrack still makes me smile (although as the ever - perceptive Duff comments, «there's no lay - shaft rumble in the new car»).

- Good Housekeeping «Tender... perceptive... Mothers and Daughters should appeal to both of its titular groups, and may even spark the kinds of discussions and openness so uncharacteristic of many earlier parent - child relationships.»

- Kate Atkinson, author of Life After Life «A book so funny and perceptive I want to be friends with its author.»

Her perceptive and compelling new novel, Eight Girls Taking Pictures, is one of my favorite fall releases so far.

Now Claridge reveals his dreams and disappointments in a lively and perceptive biography that also illuminates the contradictions inherent in the American ideal Rockwell so slyly depicted.

I'm a bit liberal when Laddie meets other dogs though, he's really perceptive so I think I'll let him judge how far he goes.

She breaks down goals into baby steps so it is easy for the dogs to succeed and she is perceptive enough to try different techniques if the dog doesn't understand.

This is more important than many dog lovers realize; our pups are highly perceptive animals, so if we're even mildly uncomfortable about leaving our pet somewhere, many dogs will pick up on that uncertainty and may become anxious themselves.

So most of us churn out those round - ups, then send our «cool stuff» to places like Perceptive Travel and World Hum.

It is art by a freakishly perceptive Texan who sees a million miles into the past, the future, and into the collective criminal mind of humanity... If this scares a few people, so be it.»