All 5 Uses of
insight
in
Middlemarch
- "I made a great study of theology at one time," said Mr. Brooke, as if to explain the insight just manifested.†
Chpt 1 *
- He said "I think so" with an air of so much deference accompanying the insight of agreement, that she formed the most cordial opinion of his talents.†
Chpt 1
- Lydgate was fuming a little, pushed his hair back with one hand, felt curiously in his waistcoat-pocket with the other, and then stooped to beckon the tiny black spaniel, which had the insight to decline his hollow caresses.†
Chpt 3
- She had an exquisite tact and insight in relation to all points of manners; but the people she lived among were blunderers and busybodies.†
Chpt 3
- In the British climate there is no incompatibility between scientific insight and furnished lodgings: the incompatibility is chiefly between scientific ambition and a wife who objects to that kind of residence.†
Chpt 7
Definition:
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(insight) a clear understanding of some aspect of a complex situation; or a tendency to have such understandings
(often such an understanding is new and/or sudden)