Meaning of aperçu | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative spelling of aperçu.
   alt-of, alternative
2. A clever insight.
3. An outline or summary; also, words that summarize.

Equivalents

Examples

“I insisted on how his opinion mattered, and developed and construed his platitudes into aperçus he was far from entertaining himself.”

“In this place you can go to a year's worth of dinner parties without hearing anyone quote an aperçu he first heard on Charlie Rose.”

“Every so often a hobo (Mr. [Tom] Hanks again) materializes to dispense a cryptic aperçu to the boy, maybe because the child is the father of the man or because the film's envelope-pushing gobbled up most of the budget and there was only enough money for one star.”

“President [Barack] Obama disdains sound bites, and he does not have Bill Clinton's talent for reducing the abstruse to aperçus.”

“While we know – because the script tells us so – that the people we are watching are in love and in pain and in trouble, they never come across as more than dispensers of sparkling aperçus.”

“These paragraphs contain many freighted aperçus, formulations over which debates continue to rage, such as that ‘[t]he executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie’ (1.12); […]”

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