Tyau writes graceful and nuanced prose, and she proves to be a perceptive observer of her character's shifting emotions.

Over the long run they have been effective, but never enough for the perceptive or acerb observer.

Nevertheless, he remained a perceptive observer of defence policy, opposing the closure of Colchester's military hospital and other cuts.

Dandini was a perceptive observer, and Simon in his preface argued for the utility of travel to theologians.

The chair and the clothing were merely props for the less perceptive observers to note.

They were perceptive, meticulous and humane observers.

He has been described by the Guardian as "one of today's most perceptive observers and historians of religion".

Most of all, she is a perceptive, unsentimental observer of life.

Mr. Kramer is probably less guerrillalike than he was 14 years ago but no less perceptive an observer of the wine scene.

She is a perceptive observer of the changing urban milieu and her writing closely examines the contemporary Bengali middle class.