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  • On one of the first days I spent at home after quitting my job, I was sitting there feeling blue about my inability to connect with Cassie, when I remembered that my brother and his wife had once given her a "teen" Bible—a New Testament with a sort of study guide giving young readers insights into dealing with their parents.†   (source)
  • As if to confirm my fresh insight, I heard him growl.†   (source)
  • Bernard and I continued to track leads and interview people who had insights to share about life in Monroe County.†   (source)
  • Laila wondered, with something like insight, if it wasn't the same for Mariam.†   (source)
  • I read each thread, and felt like I was getting a secret insight into the workings of Will's brain.†   (source)
  • I pretended that I lived off the land and had insights.†   (source)
  • I had only a vague insight, not the words.†   (source)
  • What an interesting insight into our justice system!†   (source)
  • Dell was now in his mid-thirties, and while he wasn't insightful or even thoughtful, he knew that this counseling job in Bakersfield would make or break him.†   (source)
  • Dupont, after all, would not have known who had been given the replicas of the diamond; he had no insight into the last-second safeguards of the museum.†   (source)
  • It was a state of mind in which I "knew" many things, in which "conviction" was not an abstract, rather dry term referring to moral values or conscious beliefs, but a feeling of being drenched with insight, swollen with it like a wet sponge.†   (source)
  • Nothing came—no answers, no remembrances, no insights—only the choking white waves of the fog.†   (source)
  • Reynie had a sudden insight: Rhonda was calling attention to herself on purpose.†   (source)
  • Pete told her how much the clients were appreciating her input, her candor and her insights.†   (source)
  • Her child was living inside the middle of a ground zero to which no affair on her own husband's part could offer her insight.†   (source)
  • He'd congratulated himself on this insight.†   (source)
  • But even that insight dulled when she thought of Peony.†   (source)
  • Page celebrated the publication of Keneally's book Schindler's Ark (Schindler's List in the United States) in 1982 and contributed valuable insight to the 1993 Steven Spielberg film, Schindler's List.†   (source)
  • "Ah yes, Vogonity—sorry—of the poet's compassionate soul"—Arthur felt he was on the homestretch now—"which contrives through the medium of the verse structure to sublimate this, transcend that, and come to terms with the fundamental dichotomies of the other"—he was reaching a triumphant crescendo—"and one is left with a profound and vivid insight into ...into ...er ..." (which suddenly gave out on him).†   (source)
  • Elise called her family to get some insight into what was happening and to have her relatives meet Maxon and the king once they got to New Asia.†   (source)
  • We have tried to offer you insights and inspiration so that you, too, can find hope and a dream of success.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, we all of us, to varying degrees, believed that when you saw the person you were copied from, you'd get some insight into who you were deep down, and maybe too, you'd see something of what your life held in store.†   (source)
  • Very insightful, Valentine.†   (source)
  • should have more insight into how to deal with others.†   (source)
  • I can't force you to go there, but if you'd like a little more insight, just head for the stars.†   (source)
  • Nobody seemed particularly impressed by her insight.†   (source)
  • Groves was an engineer by training with a graduate degree from MIT, and Oppenheimer's great insight was to appeal to that side of Groves.†   (source)
  • It may seem odd, but when I realized that the shape of my own face was a surprise to me, I had the sudden insight that nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.†   (source)
  • He had come up almost effortlessly with the insights into Denker's character that had always been lacking, and he had rewritten most of the second act accordingly, making it revolve around the new scene.†   (source)
  • The Zen Gnostics would say that this emptiness is a good sign; that it presages openness to a new level of awareness, new insights, new experience.†   (source)
  • But Mommy did not have that insight, and from that moment on she hated Delaware.†   (source)
  • Her brother-in-law was a child psychologist, and Nan thought that getting his insights on Kate's increasingly antisocial behavior might be very helpful, especially since neither she nor Mack were having any success getting through to her.†   (source)
  • Solomon, if I decide to share this information with you, I would do so only because I think your insights might help me assist your brother.†   (source)
  • In this case, the insight is not into the character so named, for no one could be less like Pontius Pilate than the wise, generous, giving Pilate Dead.†   (source)
  • Wisest is she who knows she does not know...True insight comes from within.†   (source)
  • I had little interest in giving a discourse on, say, my insights into how I coped with the disease, or how it gave me new perspectives.†   (source)
  • normal insight and power could be derived from properly combining the letters of the Divine Name.†   (source)
  • The insight extended into his internal well-being.†   (source)
  • But the action gave him an insight into the contempt with which the Dark Elders held life.†   (source)
  • "Your friend here has some useful insights, Percy," he said.†   (source)
  • Almost childlike, but very insightful.†   (source)
  • If you have insight, hear this: Can one who hates right govern?†   (source)
  • At the awards ceremony, I'm called to the stage and honored for the insights and public education I've provided with my columns about Nathaniel.†   (source)
  • The exchange gave me some insight into the confusion and isolation Lee Swaney must have felt toward the town he'd lived in for twenty or so years and that he now governed.†   (source)
  • I = INSIGHT†   (source)
  • The hope is that the second interpreter has, or will learn to have, the wit and insight to disprove some of the ridiculous claims the first interpreter has made over the years.†   (source)
  • There were many people who had sufficient insight to suspect that it was a question of provocation.†   (source)
  • But Brittain's fourpoint-oh grade average includes no A's for insight, and he forges on like a runaway gospel train without Ellerby and me there to throw objects onto his tracks to derail him.†   (source)
  • The book was set out in a straightforward and engaging way, and even people with no insight into the labyrinth of financial journalism could learn something from reading it.†   (source)
  • What insights did you gain about what's important?†   (source)
  • Her leathery face displayed a twisting of emotions: dismay, anger ....With sudden insight, Leto realized that she must have planned to sell the water squeezings from the foot-trampled towels, wringing a few coppers from the wretches who came to the door.†   (source)
  • None would give an observer an insight into the subject of the fairth or he who had created it.†   (source)
  • First, it would give me better insight into what my mother and sisters had gone through, as well as all the other teen moms around me.†   (source)
  • Some seemed to really enjoy it and got happy and hungry andsilly and had deep insights into themselves and the world.†   (source)
  • Quentin scowled at him, but I laughed at Roy Lee's insight.†   (source)
  • He'd hoped that Doris would have some insight, but it just so happened that she wasn't around, either.†   (source)
  • Insight, vision.†   (source)
  • Vernon coughed in appreciation of the insight.†   (source)
  • They study the academic literature on child development, seeking insights from the work of theorists such as Erik Erikson and Jean Piaget.†   (source)
  • How could I explain gut-wrenching insights to someone so lacking vision?†   (source)
  • I call the element air first to our circle, and I ask that it guard us with winds of insight.†   (source)
  • "Maybe you're right," she said quietly, surprised by his insight.†   (source)
  • I guess with everything that's happening in my own family right now I feel like I've had some added insight into how things must have been for you in the last couple of years.†   (source)
  • I'd like her insights.†   (source)
  • I think it shows great insight to the relationship between man, animal, and Earth.†   (source)
  • For such insights, one had to live in Africa.†   (source)
  • The Tralfamadorians didn't have anything to do with his coming unstuck They were simply able to give him insights into what was really going on.†   (source)
  • But, observant and insightful though I usually am, I still make mistakes.†   (source)
  • If I'd hoped Mary's diary would get more interesting or insightful, I was mistaken.†   (source)
  • There was no more questioning of Bigwig's strength, Fiver's insight, Blackberry's wits or Hazel's authority.†   (source)
  • You have an efficient and insightful way of summing up.†   (source)
  • It is well and good to opine or theorize about a subject, as humankind is wont to do, but when moral posturing is replaced by an honest assessment of the data, the result is often a new, surprising insight.†   (source)
  • She said I would be able to gather new insights on my father.†   (source)
  • But some of his freshest insights come haphazardly, from observing students who pass through his office and classroom.†   (source)
  • And little Savannah, she's so insightful.†   (source)
  • Recalling the book she had held in her hand there, she had a sudden flash of insight that made her cheeks burn red.†   (source)
  • I hadn't witnessed anything at Danbury to allay my fear of childbirth, but for the first time I had some tiny insight on the mother-child relationship.†   (source)
  • I thought of muses as inventions to protect one's insight, to avoid questions like "Where do your ideas come from?"†   (source)
  • Maybe all mothers had such insight on their daughters and sometimes it was wonderful to be so understood.†   (source)
  • I knew you'd have some keen insights, something clever to contribute to—†   (source)
  • In another flash of insight, born of the awareness that only makes itself known deep in the night, when the mind opens strange doors, I realize something else.†   (source)
  • It seemed that each week, another modern innovation or technological insight had vanished.†   (source)
  • I am not going to poor-mouth too much—I wanted this job because I felt I could do it with some insight, without asking some college professor what I should feel—but it is as daunting as it is satisfying, to cover your home for strangers.†   (source)
  • I began to pose a hypothetical question, which I thought expressed great insight into his peripatetic life.†   (source)
  • When I look round, and see how few of the numbers who talked so largely of death and honor are around me, and that those who are here are those from whom it was least expected ...I am lost in wonder and surprise....Your noisy sons of liberty are, I find, the quietest in the field....An engagement, or even the expectation of one, gives a wonderful insight into character.†   (source)
  • There was no mistaking the awesome implications of the chaplain's revelation: it was either an insight of divine origin or a hallucination; he was either blessed or losing his mind.†   (source)
  • Thrashing against damp, well-illuminated sheets some hours before dawn, he had a sudden insight.†   (source)
  • By 2002, he was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a less severe form of autism that made socializing difficult but also provided unique insights into the world.†   (source)
  • You started with faith, but you developed insight—and for these people.†   (source)
  • On the other, he had an edge, an insight to what vampires were really like—not to mention the urge to one-up the guy who seemed to think he was so much better than everyone else.†   (source)
  • Bob Loomis, my editor at Random House, once again showed himself to be patient, insightful, and thorough.†   (source)
  • You know, to see if he had any insights into what kind of individual would do something like that.†   (source)
  • I said I was grateful for the insight into the state of our country's highest councils and would be more grateful still to hear other such poems, for are not all His Majesty's loyal subjects bound to strive to emulate their king?†   (source)
  • You don't have exclusive insights.†   (source)
  • But at that time I had no insight into its meaning.†   (source)
  • Okay, I'll give you one little insight.†   (source)
  • Keen insight, assuming it was right.†   (source)
  • "You can congratulate him on his scientific insight," Stone said, "for me."†   (source)
  • His natural empathy and experience with the horses of the bullring circuit had given him insight into the minds of ailing, nervous horses.†   (source)
  • You were the final gift of the living to their emissary to the land of the ancestors, and perhaps your warmth and youth brought new insights of this world to me and turned my feet leaden on this side of the abyss.†   (source)
  • But he couldn't stop reading him, he said, because it had become increasingly obvious to him that Freud had possessed an almost uncanny insight into the nature of man.†   (source)
  • What it was that changed this conclusion, I don't remember — some intuition, some insight one day, perhaps it was a subtle change in Sylvia's mood whenever the dripping was particularly loud and she was trying to talk.†   (source)
  • I've been astonished too often by those I've visited: ordinary Americans, who at times, are extraordinary in their insights and dreams.†   (source)
  • His oily style of compliments and indirection didn't suit her, but that was the required form in the court he came from, and he was certainly insightful and in this case quite accurate.†   (source)
  • To the struggling remnants of rational honesty in the twisted, bewildered minds of your children, you declare that you can offer no rational argument to support the ideas that created this country, that there is no rational justification for freedom, for property, for justice, for rights, that they rest on a mystical insight and can be accepted only on faith, that in reason and logic the enemy is right, but faith is superior to reason.†   (source)
  • I am forever grateful for their generosity of time, guidance, and insight.†   (source)
  • Basic truths cannot change and once a man of insight expresses one of them it is never necessary, no matter how much the world changes, to reformulate them.†   (source)
  • As he did, he found for the most part that each was extremely well reasoned and insightful.†   (source)
  • Both have produced a wealth of research, yielding fascinating insights, but these are often technical and not accessible to the general public.†   (source)
  • The woman was brilliant, insightful, quietly efficient, and compassionate.†   (source)
  • He didn't even need journalistic instinct to arrive at this chilling insight.†   (source)
  • I don't think they hold my insights in particularly high regard.†   (source)
  • They might have insights into the best possible means of escape: roads under construction or in need of repair, overcrowded streets, bridges still under wartime guard—for the only way out of Washington, D.C., is on a boat or over a bridge.†   (source)
  • "An insight," Tyler said, pulling up a picture on one of the screens.†   (source)
  • If she got somebody terribly Freudian, or terribly eclectic, or just terribly run-of-the-mill—somebody who didn't even have any crazy, mysterious gratitude for his insight and intelligence—she'd come out of analysis in even worse shape than Seymour did.†   (source)
  • Also she liked the insights into American home life — the revelation that most Americans showered every day, first thing in the morning, for example.†   (source)
  • But for this view, this insight, this knowledge, we must abandon our faith in the pleasant poetry of Genesis.†   (source)
  • What insights could they reveal, if the Whitshanks walked over to them that very instant and asked?†   (source)
  • You're giving me a rare new insight into my personality.†   (source)
  • She radiated power and insight, and her sons treated her like a queen, even if it was only of the Hollow.†   (source)
  • She did not share this insight with her dinner companion.†   (source)
  • You don't feel David Fentris could provide any additional insights?†   (source)
  • Of the many commentators on the Nazi concentration camps, few have written with greater insight and passion than the critic George Steiner.†   (source)
  • That may give us some insight into their methods.†   (source)
  • Wonderfully, soon afterwards, insight came towards me in the form of the great Buddha's teachings, I felt the knowledge of the oneness of the world circling in me like my own blood.†   (source)
  • It was incredible: not terrifying but quietly beyond understanding; she was not waiting for Nick's reaction but for insight, a parting of the veil.†   (source)
  • His intelligence lacked the capacity for bold leaps into the unknown, the sudden flashes of insight that transcend barren, logical deductions.†   (source)
  • — And in five days more we were insight of Muil, which, as you know, is the westernmost of the Seven Isles.†   (source)
  • Yet his single term in the United States Senate gives us a clear insight into the fate of a man who brought to the public service notable faculties, a respected name and a singular ambition for the right.†   (source)
  • Feld had a sudden insight.†   (source)
  • "But leave them," she said, feeling an intruder on this man's intimate life: the two pictures, stuck up roughly on the wall with thumbtacks, had given her for the first time an insight into his loneliness, and made her understand his hurried courtship and blind need for her.†   (source)
  • A variable enigma which occasionally offers unusual insights into more serious lines of analysis.†   (source)
  • My brain refused to come up with any brilliant insights.†   (source)
  • Yet, despite a tremendous increase in available facts, there were remarkably few insights.†   (source)
  • We presumably have insights where the Far East is concerned and you think he'll listen to me.'†   (source)
  • Is it that he has come to fear Sukeena and her insights?†   (source)
  • On the one hand, he loved Lucien and treasured his advice and insights.†   (source)
  • Faste, for example, could have benefited from Svensson's insights.†   (source)
  • Your ability to heal quickly, your insights into what was, is, will be.†   (source)
  • Now a researcher is able to tease some insights from this very complicated set of data.†   (source)
  • Commerce was a boring writer and his insights were uninspired.†   (source)
  • In turn, Eragon gleaned occasional insights into her own life.†   (source)
  • And our family had a cruel reason to be able to accept the truth of Herr Streicher's insights.†   (source)
  • He thought about this, startled , her occasional sharp insights never failed to startle him , and decided it was true.†   (source)
  • Sgt. Hunt used to give me a lot of extra hints and suggestions, sharing his own insights into things that the *1 made second lieutenant after only three semesters when it usually rook at least four, and most ROTC cadets never reached that rank in six semesters.†   (source)
  • What insights did you gain?†   (source)
  • Another woman, whose husband died of a brain tumor when their children were ages three and eight, offered insights for me to pass along to Jai.†   (source)
  • The bloody history of humanity shocked her, and the extraordinary insights of the philosophers also led her to understand the most fundamental and secret aspects of human nature.†   (source)
  • It may, after all, be the bad habit of creative talents to invest themselves in pathological extremes that yield remarkable insights but no durable way of life for those who cannot translate their psychic wounds into significant art or thought.†   (source)
  • The monster represents, among other things, forbidden insights, a modern pact with the devil, the result of science without ethics.†   (source)
  • He explained about my missing things, but from the side I was hearing, it sounded like Carlisle had no insights for us.†   (source)
  • He discovered that he could wrestle with Kierkegaard while he waited for mortar to dry and find new insights in Kant and Vandeur while carefully checking the apples for worms.†   (source)
  • She never got those insights from me.†   (source)
  • Some brilliant manifesto about how God whispered sweet insights into my ear,higher truths that I would hold on to forever, once I'd shared them through testimony?†   (source)
  • Berger had already decided that she would be able to depend on Fredriksson's insights when she took command of the ship.†   (source)
  • You had remarkable skills and insights.†   (source)
  • Eragon took that collection of scattered, fragmented insights and turned them over in his mind, pondering their significance.†   (source)
  • He thought she was a woman wise in the ways of love, since she offered many insights into his affair without his having to reveal any secrets to her.†   (source)
  • He offered guidance, tapes of sermons, and insights into the peculiar dilemmas of being "one with God" while doing what is necessary to build a congregation.†   (source)
  • The professor spoke about the legacy of pain and prejudice, in that Yankee accent, and I could tell that the professor was speaking from insights gleaned on long-ago field trips, from old safaris through the rural South, and had formed petrified opinions that no amount of new information could change.†   (source)
  • One can gain great insights into the complex overall structure of the tree by studying the much simpler shape of the shrub.†   (source)
  • But we do appreciate you clarifying the key points: I suppose it's my responsibility as a leader to swallow my pride and glean whatever other insights our exalted Archmage has to offer.†   (source)
  • He has lots of insights into lots of things—how many times around Palmer Field make a mile (four—which I needed to know back when I was walking it every day to lose weight); what the number 33 on the inside of the Rolling Rock bottle means; why so many guys seem to think man-pris are actually flattering...But Chaz shrugs, too.†   (source)
  • Trogdon's insights about teenagers and after-school jobs are supported by Protecting Youth at Work, a report on child labor published by the National Academy of Sciences in 1998.†   (source)
  • The blind guy has insights.†   (source)
  • Whatever Conklin's faults and duplicities, few men in the intelligence community had the insights and the sources he had developed over a lifetime of commitment.†   (source)
  • These insights led Bailey and Cukor —Avila to conclude that urban black speech appeared to be diverging from rather than converging with white speech, as a result of the great black migration to the North.†   (source)
  • In fact, he doesn't want to come right out and tell Zayd lots of things he's realized lately, especially the nascent insights discovered from the writing of his wrenching sixty-eightline poem.†   (source)
  • While medical researchers have gained important insights into the links between modern food processing and the spread of dangerous diseases, the nation's leading agribusiness firms have resolutely opposed any further regulation of their food safety practices.†   (source)
  • So many other friends have been gracious with their insights and confidences over the years-Larry Ingrassia, Ronde Baquie, Nancy McMillian, Jack Hitt, Paul Hemp, Joe Rosenbloom, and the amazing Jorge Plutzky-that I regret there is only enough space to mention a few of them.†   (source)
  • Someone else crossing a divide was Bill Ramsey, the black administrative director of the MIT MITES, who spent many hours educating me with his insights about race and achievement-only a few of which were included in the second of my 1994 Journal stories.†   (source)
  • Afterward, as the round luncheon tables emptied, a mob surrounded Barbara-women with a lifetime of urgent questions, certain that this quiet, firm woman, with her hard-earned insights, had the answers.†   (source)
  • But, in traveling from a blighted urban terrain to Ivy League distinction, and then in taking some early steps toward professional success, he's earned insights about himself, race, class, hope, faith, and the elusive "unseen," that exceed even the most wild imaginings of the gangly sixteen-year-old I met in the hallways of Ballou High School in 1994.†   (source)
  • But haven't you found something by yourself, though you've found no teachings, you still found certain thoughts, certain insights, which are your own and which help you to live?†   (source)
  • Sequences of ideas, notions, insights, truths drifted and sailed freely through her mind, like clouds in the sky, as happened so often before during their nighttime conversations.†   (source)
  • In one letter, written in 1886 from Norfolk (he was traveling on business for his tobacco firm, this being just before the villainous "Buck" Duke destroyed him), he disclosed the true whereabouts of the gold—placed not in the safe deposit box (your grandmother obviously became confused about this later) but in a bricked-up cubbyhole in the basement of the house in N.C. I am having a photostatic copy of this letter sent to you later on, as I know of your interest in slavery and should you ever want to write about that institution this tragic epistle might provide you with fascinating insights.†   (source)
  • If anyone can give you insight on Gaea and the twins, it's Phorcys.†   (source)
  • He thought Gholam would be proud of him for this insight.†   (source)
  • I realize that this is a unique opportunity to get insight into both of these people.†   (source)
  • There is indeed no insurance to cover this kind of philosophical insight.†   (source)
  • "You showed great insight into the process," the woman said.†   (source)
  • Mae pretended to be surprised by it, delighted by its innocence and crude insight.†   (source)
  • The insight struck him like a thunderbolt out of a clear sky.†   (source)
  • Her brain was a storm, her usual insight gone.†   (source)
  • "The drug's dangerous," she said, "but it gives insight.†   (source)
  • In the opinion of us all, this revered gentleman has great insight into politics.†   (source)
  • Our mythologies have a long tradition of magic words that provide insight and godlike powers.†   (source)
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