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Of course, there are natures whose perceptiveness outruns their power of expression and these are, as a rule, the dissatisfied, unhappy temperaments that one encounters; there are others whose power of expression outruns their perceptiveness, and these are facile, fluent, empty, agreeable writers.
The Incroyable was a person of almost magical perceptiveness; he felt the let-down immediately and feared a failure. This would not do; the attitude of tension between them must be renewed at once. "You'll forgive me?" he began, in a quickly impassioned tone. "It was only after you sang, a dream possessed me, and "
Not only should we have been destitute of all the comforts and luxuries that now surround us, we should have lacked also whatever cerebral development we have attained, together with all its concomitants and consequences; whatever of intelligence, or moral perceptiveness, or artistic taste we have to boast of.
He described their spontaneous decision to marry offhand; and then he put it to Somers whether he ought to marry or not her or anybody else in such circumstances. 'Certainly not, said Somers. 'Though, if anybody, little Avice. But not even her. You are like other men, only rather worse. Essentially, all men are fickle, like you; but not with such perceptiveness. 'Surely fickle is not the word?
Overhead, on the deck, a heavy thumping of hurrying feet awoke him to keener perceptiveness.
This is due, partly, to the large armies handled, partly to the terrific range of modern artillery, and also to what may be called the territorial perceptiveness which aeronautical surveys make possible to a general of to-day. While war has not changed, it is true that a commander of an army in modern campaign is compelled to review and to take into account a far larger group of factors.
"I'm afraid you're expecting some one rather badly," he remarked with piercing perceptiveness. "A dull acquaintance," said I. "I shall be sorry when his arrival puts an end to our engaging conversation." Then the lift door opened and Hamdi stepped out like the Devil in an Alhambra ballet. He looked at my card and looked at me. He bowed politely.
Warren was of the mental build of the man whose life would be interesting and full of outlook if it were spent on a desert island or in the Bastille. He possessed the temperament which annexes incident and adventure, and the perceptiveness of imagination which turns a light upon the merest fragment of event.
Thus it is that the Bible feeds so richly, when read aright, that awe which steals upon us as we face nature and see ourselves mirrored there in shadowy outline; and realize the One in all things God. There is a beautiful illustration of this in a noble poem that our later critics have handled with a strange lack of perceptiveness.
Halloway had learned a certain perceptiveness on the stump. The gentleman referred to showed very faint appreciation of these ringing compliments. There was a lamp on the table beside him, against which, to the view of Miss Sherwood of Rouen, his face was silhouetted, and very rarely had it been her lot to see a man look less enthusiastic under public and favorable comment of himself.
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