Both Uses of
insight
in
War and Peace
- On the contrary I was then wiser and had more insight than at any other time, and understood all that is worth understanding in life, because…. because I was happy.†
Chpt 15 *
- Guided by some gift of insight, on taking up the management of the estates he at once unerringly appointed as bailiff, village elder, and delegate, the very men the serfs would themselves have chosen had they had the right to choose, and these posts never changed hands.†
Chpt 15
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)