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Definition of the day : « penetrative »
- As in insightful : adj perceptive
- As in penetrating : adj intelligent
- As in perceptive : adj alert, sensitive
- As in quick-witted : adj smart
- As in sharp : adj perceptive, quick-witted
- A penetrative word or a heroic gesture might lose them the day.
- Extract from : « Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) » by John Morley
- The pleading was crafty, and it was penetrative in the avoidance of stress.
- Extract from : « The Amazing Marriage, Complete » by George Meredith
- She had at this another, but a sharper, of her penetrative pauses.
- Extract from : « The Shadow of Life » by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
- Hence the afterthought of the decorative but penetrative ironwork.
- Extract from : « The Old Inns of Old England, Volume I (of 2) » by Charles G. Harper
- As a critic he was penetrative, comprehensive, and impartial.
- Extract from : « A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations » by Joseph Mazzini Wheeler
- You feel, with regard to the foregoing criticism, that it is as just as it is penetrative.
- Extract from : « French Classics » by William Cleaver Wilkinson
- Her comments on people were saltily satiric and penetrative of accepted hypocrisies.
- Extract from : « Babbitt » by Sinclair Lewis
- While speaking, he still bent his penetrative eye upon them, nor withdrew it till they had reached the bottom of the stairs.
- Extract from : « The Prophetic Pictures (From "Twice Told Tales") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- It was a womans voice, rather low, but with a penetrative quality in it: a peculiar voice, both in timbre and intonation.
- Extract from : « Dust » by Julian Hawthorne
- After a series of penetrative flashes, flattering to her intelligence the more startling they were, reflection was exhausted.
- Extract from : « Lord Ormont and his Aminta, Complete » by George Meredith