He then discovered that the motor cycle had been sold to somebody else and, being percipient, was able to track down the offender and give the information to the police.
On various subjects he has established himself as not only a sensible but a percipient and advanced exponent of important points which some of us should have realised earlier.
Because of the very percipient and persuasive speeches to which we have listened, nobody could doubt that we are in the presence of a very real problem.
In private industry, the profit and loss account, or a percipient manager, looks through the whole organisation and sees upon which part there is not a profit yield.
Clearly, they did not foresee that they were creating a monster which could command government foreign policy and corrupt the thinking of hitherto percipient politicians.
Direct elections should bring a greater degree of realism and should result in a more percipient reflection of public opinion.
The least percipient section of the report was paragraph 39, which argued that by taking the first step one was committed to the last.
This seems to me both percipient and ominous, because this is only a start, drastic as it is.
