subjective

in a sentence

It had seemed slow subjectively, inside his head, but it must have all happened in less than a minute.†  (source) Stephen King, The Shining, 1977

Every story about the loss of innocence is really about someone's private reenactment of the fall from grace, since we experience it not collectively but individually and subjectively.†  (source) Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, 2003

You are caught up in the meaning, in the subjectivity of the effect of commercialism on this holiday.†  (source) Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak, 1999

He never took his own observation data seriously, and he constructed his model based on subjective speculation.†  (source) Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem, 2008

The intensely personal nature of his business, the subjectivity of taste, the variables of light and curtains and carpets, guaranteed that minds would reevaluate and work would have to be redone.†  (source) Dave Eggers, Zeitoun, 2009

The time as we know it subjectively is often the chronology that stories and novels follow: it is the continuous thread of revelation.†  (source) Eudora Welty, One Writer's Beginnings, 1984

Proper is such a subjective word.†  (source) Marissa Meyer, Cinder, 2012

Or, he could take the right horn, and refute the idea that subjectivity implies "anything you like."†  (source) Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, 1974

The tradition of the "subjectively known forms" (Sanskrit: antarjneya-rupa) is, in fact, coextensive with the tradition of myth, and is the key to the understanding and use of mythological images—as will appear abundantly in the following chapters.†  (source) Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, 1949

And when he was privileged to witness the miracle of Owen Meany, my bitter father could manage no better response than to whine to me about his lost faith—his ridiculously subjective and fragile belief, which he had so easily allowed to be routed by his mean-spirited and self-imposed doubt.†  (source) John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, 1989

These were the mental conditions on which Mrs. Tulliver had undertaken to act persuasively, and had failed; a fact which may receive some illustration from the remark of a great philosopher, that fly-fishers fail in preparing their bait so as to make it alluring in the right quarter, for want of a due acquaintance with the subjectivity of fishes.†  (source) George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860

Thanks so much, I'm feeling almost normal, subjectively at least.†  (source) Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain, 1924

But it's very subjective.†  (source) Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005