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a·per·çu  (äpr-sü)
n. pl. a·per·çus (-sü)
1. A discerning perception; an insight: "Her schmoozy but magisterial aperçus inspired widespread emulation among the young" (Roy Blount, Jr.)
2. A short outline or summary; a synopsis.
[French, from past participle of apercevoir, to perceive : a-, to (from Latin ad-; see ad-) + percevoir, to perceive (from Old French perceivre; see perceive).]
aperçu French [apɛrsy]
n
1. an outline; summary
2. an insight
[from apercevoir to perceive]
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Carter might emerge as a first-rate mystery writer who entertains effortlessly and with flair, but in the meantime, he remains a hard-working amateur straining for depth and complexity and achieving only an irritating busyness punctuated with modestly enlightening sociological aperçus.
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For a pensive moment toward the evening’s end, he no longer seemed to be pronouncing or delivering his tightly honed aperçus.
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He admits later that he “has got no farther than half of a putative first chapter and a notebook filled with derivative and half-baked would-be aperçus.
Heavy With Grief and Mourning, Thick With Eccentric Verbiage by David Thomson / The New York Observer
 
 
 
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