Before moving on, however, we must address the probability that the perceptive reader will have noticed in our narration an apparent and perhaps troubling inconsistency.

Yet we believe it will be a very perceptive reader who observes and interprets them correctly.

"It's nice to have a shrewd and perceptive reader around when you need one," he said.

Many more, particularly minor characters, are deliberately obscured and may be considered Easter eggs for perceptive readers.

And she s a perceptive enough reader to arrive at fresh observations about Flaubert, Anne Frank, Toni Morrison and others.

But we did lay a foundation and hoped to entice perceptive young readers like you.

It was so unequivocal that perceptive readers had to see that I had returned to my earlier style of deep commitment expressed in telling phrases.

Just ask the esteemed American baritone Thomas Hampson, a perceptive reader of Whitman.

To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history.

Even the least perceptive reader will also by now be aware that I will be talking about metaphor.