Both Uses of
insight
in
The Age of Innocence
- He perceived with a flash of chilling insight that in future many problems would be thus negatively solved for him; but as he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six months were always the most difficult in marriage.†
Chpt 20
- Dallas, for all his affectionate insight, would not have understood that.†
Chpt 34 *
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)