Was just reading Elements of Style and ran across this explanation of “insightful” in the “Words and Expressions Commonly Misused” section: “Insightful. The word is a suspicious overstatement for ‘perceptive.’ If it is to be used at all, it should be used for instances of remarkably penetrating vision. Usually, it crops up merely to inflate the commonplace.”
Amen.
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Damn. That’s good advice.
Now that, was insightful.
:)
i say we just use “remarkably penetrating vision” from now on. it sounds more impressive.