However, where he is superb, and a delight, is in his witty, perceptive observations contained in many of the essays.

On 16 May, in a conference, Hermann Göring made a rare perceptive observation.

That was a remarkably perceptive observation.

Carefully woven into the diatribe are a number of perceptive observations.

It was a perceptive observation.

John Major made a perceptive observation a few days ago when he declared that he found many people to be cross, rather than angry, about the recession.

This is a perceptive observation.

But while Hond's characters remain stuck in neutral, his perceptive observations about them compensate for the sillier turns of plot.

Apart from perceptive observations, he had a nice literary touch and wasn't averse to a Shakespearean allusion.

Memories of his childhood rub shoulders with wickedly perceptive observations about contemporary politicians.