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From: Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage
Date: 20040101
Author:ROBERT ALLEN

insightful, meaning ‘showing insight or understanding’, is first recorded in a work by John Galsworthy in 1907. Since then it has become an omnipresent word of catch-all praise in many kinds of writing in which the writer, one may suppose, has no precise idea of the compliment he or she is paying:
She created a film which was memorable, intriguing and moving, a warm and insightful reconstruction of a vanished age — Listener , 1982 /
It was a wonderful insightful exhibition — Modern Painters , 1988. The problem with this overused word is that it depends so ...

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