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"Surely the men of Earth are somewhat imperceptive," he said.
There are however immediate reasons for thinking that this stance is imperceptive.
Almost imperceptive, the plug continued its invasion and the widest point was reached.
His voice reflected deadly determination, with a subtle, almost imperceptive, hint of anxiety.
How imperceptive can one man be?
Well, same crowd of imperceptive, gullible and weak worshipers.
Grace was not imperceptive and exactly because she knew what was going on, she kept on drinking.
Even man's artifacts enjoy a sentience ignored by the imperceptive: "the house feels its own constellation of nails/ holding the walls together."
A stodgy, imperceptive idiot."
I'm glad of that; after all that appears to have been happening, she would have to be incredibly imperceptive to think that I was down to earth.
These men were continually petty, hypercritical and imperceptive in dealing with their allies - to a degree that has to prompt ruminations about the psychological effects of Britain's decline on its officer corps.
(Imbert 1997 p. 169) Criticisms of the work as being too literal a translation of, or direct reference to, cubist painting is both unfair and imperceptive (and usually based on Wesley's critique or similar ideas).
Scorned by the imperceptive as a medieval whodunit, "Morality Play" was a near-perfect novel, with a diamond's glitter and a diamond's hardness: a profound meditation on the nature of justice and the transforming power of art.
People say they become imperceptive; they spend hours looking for the car keys that were on the table in front of them all the time; they become preoccupied and inattentive to what other people are saying to them ('But I told you the Smiths were coming over yesterday.
He faulted McIntyre's work for manifesting "two extraordinary features", which he suggested contributed to her success with her "chosen audience": first, "a worldview that divides everyone into an uncaring, imperceptive, closed-minded Them and a loving, hip, holistic, and victimized Us"; second, "a tendency toward tears."
Her rule was so absolute that it never occurred to her to doubt that she was obeyed to the letter; and as she was as imperceptive as she was despotic no suspicion had ever crossed her mind that Miss Battery was by no means the rigid disciplinarian she appeared.