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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