The book is remarkable for its penetrating and highly perceptive insights into the character and state of the British nation at the time of writing.

It is full of perceptive insights that still help explain the pervasive religiosity of this most secular of cultures.

But she brings little ingenuity to this case, and her supposedly perceptive insights into well-off suburban WASP's sound more like ethnic slurs.

The result is "an intelligent, solidly based, up-to-date account of Mahler's life interleaved with nontechnical but still perceptive musical insights," John Rockwell said here in 1998.

A page-turningly good read . . . a perceptive insight into alcohol's hidden harm.

She has a very perceptive insight which allows her to see into the hearts of the people around her.

I thought both were purile, gave me no perceptive insights into sexual behaviour and convinced me only that they were largely invented.

His work is characterised by its sharp and perceptive insights into Australian history and landscape and has appeared in many Australian literary anthologies.

Perhaps Gould's work on snail speciation gives him some peculiarly perceptive insights into the baseball world.

Mr. Köhler has perceptive insights into Wagner's letters and essays.