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perceive as in: perceive the system as unfair
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She finally perceived the futility of her protest.
perceived = saw (viewed in a certain way so as to form a belief or opinion)
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The company wants to make sure its low price is not perceived as implying low quality.
perceived = viewed in a certain way so as to form a belief or opinion
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When my father was in my life, wrestling me for control of that life, I perceived him with the eyes of a soldier, through a fog of conflict.
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perceived = viewed (in a certain way)
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"If you ever want to come just to read," the woman lied (or at least the girl, in her shocked, saddened state, perceived it as a lie), "you're very welcome."
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perceived = viewed
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It's all how you're perceived.
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He brooded at length over what he perceived to be his father's moral shortcomings, the hypocrisy of his parents' lifestyle, the tyranny of their conditional love.
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Even by the standards of his honor-conscious culture, he was unusually consumed by his perceived humiliation, and was intent upon inflicting the same pain on the men under his power.
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perceived = seen in a certain way so as to form a belief or opinion
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Countries that perceived genetic engineering to be like any other high-tech development, and thus welcomed it to their lands, unaware of the dangers posed.
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perceived = viewed in a certain way so as to form a belief or opinion
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When groups perceive that it's in their interest to work hard and achieve things, members of that group outperform other similarly situated individuals.
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perceive = understand (see in a certain way)
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For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself.
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perceived = understood (saw in a certain way)
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...life is simply one continual watch against the menace of death;—it has transformed us into unthinking animals in order to give us the weapon of instinct—it has reinforced us with dullness, so that we do not go to pieces before the horror, which would overwhelm us if we had clear, conscious thought—it has awakened in us the sense of comradeship, so that we escape the abyss of solitude—it has lent us the indifference of wild creatures, so that in spite of all, we perceive the positive in every moment,
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perceive = view in a certain way to see
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Ella Stowbody, the professional, perceiving that it was because of a conspiracy of jealousy that she had been given a small part, alternated between lofty amusement and Christian patience.
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perceiving = viewing things in a certain way so as to form a belief or opinion
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Apparently, the other had now climbed a peak of wisdom from which he could perceive himself as a very wee thing.
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His usual habit was not to consider whether destiny were hard upon him or not—the shape of his ideals in cases of affliction being simply a moody "I am to suffer, I perceive."
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perceive = view in a certain way so as to form a belief or opinion
- And thus, as a closer and still closer intimacy admitted me more unreservedly into the recesses of his spirit, the more bitterly did I perceive the futility of... (source)
- Mr. Heathcliff said he did not perceive that I was wanted; but I might stay and order the arrangements for the funeral, if I chose. (source)
- You perceive, then, that he is not happy? (source)
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And when at last it is perceived that such pity cannot lead to effectual succor, common sense bids the soul rid of it.
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"But," resumed the good Oudarde, "you must have perceived to some extent, that yesterday was a festival."
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A low exclamation of applause passed among the warriors who exchanged looks with each other like men that first began to perceive their error.
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perceive = view in a certain way so as to form a belief or opinion
- ...you perceive, as well as myself, not only in this, but in many other circumstances, reason enough to be convinced that.... (source)
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Mom had a massive blind spot in the way that she perceived the world.
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perceived = understood (saw in a certain way)
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The perceived demand for "consumer biologicals" in the 1990s was high.
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When McCandless turned up dead, he was likened to Franklin not simply because both men starved but also because both were perceived to have lacked a requisite humility; both were thought to have possessed insufficient respect for the land.
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Lindsay was a teenager when Papaw died, at the height of that weird mixture of thinking you know everything and caring too much about how others perceive you.
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perceive = view (to form a belief or opinion)
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I eventually got the job, despite failing miserably at what I perceived was the most important part of the recruiting process.
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We talk about the value of hard work but tell ourselves that the reason we're not working is some perceived unfairness: Obama shut down the coal mines, or all the jobs went to the Chinese.
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We used to complain constantly about the biggest perceived difference between our jobs and civilian jobs: In the civilian world, your boss wasn't able to control your life after you left work.
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Usha still sometimes reminds me that not every perceived slight—from a passing motorist or a neighbor critical of my dogs—is cause for a blood feud.
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perceived = viewed in a certain way to form a belief or opinion
- She perceives more risk in the trip than he does.
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The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.
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perceived = saw (in a certain way) or believed
- And it is the same, he perceived, in all seemingly heroic or tragic situations. (source)
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But as it is I perceive behind them only the suffering of the creature, the awful melancholy of life and the pitilessness of men.
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And at night, waking out of a dream, overwhelmed and bewitched by the crowding apparitions, a man perceives with alarm how slight is the support, how thin the boundary that divides him from the darkness.
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perceives = views in a certain way so as to form a belief or opinion
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It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction.
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perceive = understand (see in a certain way)
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Tragedy, he perceived, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there was still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.
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perceived = saw (in a certain way) or believed
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All the beliefs, habits, tastes, emotions, mental attitudes that characterize our time are really designed to sustain the mystique of the Party and prevent the true nature of present-day society from being perceived.
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You must have observed his attentions; and though you always received them very properly (I have no accusation to make on that head), I never perceived them to be unpleasant to you.
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She could not admit at once that she might have overestimated Wildeve, for to perceive his mediocrity now was to admit her own great folly heretofore.
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Henry and Eleanor, perceiving nothing in her situation likely to engage their father's particular respect, had seen with astonishment the suddenness, continuance, and extent of his attention;
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He's had several experiences of perceiving himself as he was before the experiment—as a separate and distinct individual still functioning in his consciousness—as if the old Charlie were struggling for control of the body—
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perceiving = viewing things in a certain way
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for I perceive but cold demeanor in Octavius' wing
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—that if they perceive thee to be a coarse clown or a dull blockhead, they will suspect me to be some impostor or swindler?
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perceive = view in a certain way (so as to form a belief or opinion)
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She was disappointed to be misperceived, and more angered than ever — this time she could not box herself up — and these emotions opened others.†
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standard prefix: The prefix "mis-" in misperceived means wrong and reverses the meaning of perceived. This is the same pattern you see in words like misunderstand, misbehave, and misuse.
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perceive as in: though blind, can perceive light
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I could perceive the ship coming over the horizon.
perceive = see (become aware of)
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It's one thing to perceive something with the senses and another to understand its importance.
perceive = become aware of
- I had started on a path of awareness, had perceived something elemental about my brother, my father, myself. I had discerned the ways in which we had been sculpted by a tradition given to us by others, a tradition of which we were either willfully or accidentally ignorant. (source)
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Suddenly he perceived the word for it: sunshine.
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Some of them were things that he had already experienced, and weren't really new, but that he had never perceived before.
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perceived = become aware of
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There was something innately strange about it, as though there had always been an inner core to the gym which I had never perceived before, quite different from its generally accepted appearance.
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perceived = seen, or become aware of
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Here, the eye was first attracted to a black, bat-like creature that danced on the sand, and only later perceived the body above it.
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In short, we can only have inexact conceptions of things we perceive with our senses.
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perceive = become aware of
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But he does not yet perceive our purpose clearly.
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But above the gray land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg.
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When she perceives Franz's trouble she begins to bustle, and says: "Why did not someone say I was wanted?"
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perceives = becomes aware of
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Ruby, perceiving the Queen's calendar lying on the table, wanted to know if Anne meant to try for the gold medal.
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perceiving = seeing
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In point of fact the three actions of perceiving, determining, and responding were sequential; but so infinitesimal were the intervals of time between them that they appeared simultaneous.
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perceiving = being aware of
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As they reached the picnic ground she perceived that it was dark,
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It required a certain amount of scientific education to perceive that the grey scale of the Thing was no common oxide,
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As he perceived her, she had immediately begun to stare up through the high tree branches at the sky.
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but she had a fatalistic sense of being drawn from one wrong turning to another, without ever perceiving the right road till it was too late to take it.
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perceiving = seeing
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I perceived an agitation of the window blind,
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- But one Sunday, having gone to take a walk in the Champs Elysees to refresh herself after the labors of the week, she suddenly perceived a woman who was leading a child. (source)
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Those who had before known her, and had expected to behold her dimmed and obscured by a disastrous cloud, were astonished, and even startled, to perceive how her beauty shone out, and made a halo of the misfortune and ignominy in which she was enveloped.
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When Elizabeth's head rose through the trap she perceived that the upper door was open,
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...she experienced a contentment which she did not even perceive, so gently and naturally had it come.
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Within the wall thus exposed by the displacing of the bones, we perceived a still interior recess,
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They approached us with incredible swiftness, and were within gun-shot before they perceived us.
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...as soon as he perceived her vacant seat, he sent me to call her.
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perceived = become aware of
- He even thought he could perceive something on the ground at a distance; (source)
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The reader of nice perceptions will here perceive that, it being morning, Turkey's answer is couched in polite and tranquil terms, but Nippers replies in ill-tempered ones.
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I perceived that the words they spoke sometimes produced pleasure or pain, smiles or sadness, in the minds and countenances of the hearers.
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Then, permitting his looks to wander over the silent throng that crowded around the elevated seat of Tamenund, he first perceived Hawkeye in his bonds.
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- On opening the door, she perceived her sister and Bingley standing together over the hearth, as if engaged in earnest conversation; (source)
- He wore what I believe was called a Palm Beach suit, tan, smartly tailored and perceivably high-priced, and it helped make him appear not even a distant cousin of that wild apparition I had first set eyes on only days before, disheveled, in baggy slacks, raging at Sophie in the hallway.† (source)
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Or perhaps he perceived that I was avoiding his question, and that made him curious.
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perceived = saw (figuratively)
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And he hadn't perceived them because he had become accustomed to them.
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perceived = become aware of
- You should be able to perceive the name without being told. (source)
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In his agony he perceived the word "fire" and felt flames licking at the torn bone and flesh.
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- Once again, he perceived the many languages in the things about him: this time, the desert was safe, and it was the oasis that had become dangerous. (source)
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He ascends, falls at a slope, strikes the rebar and returns to the ground. I perceive a triangle. The event makes sense when I think of it in these terms.
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perceive = see
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What did you perceive?
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Martin perceived new avenues of exciting research;
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perceived = saw (became aware of or viewed things in a certain way so as to believe)
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He perceived and determined and responded in the same instant.
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As he plunged into the side aisles, he perceived a reddish light behind a cluster of pillars.
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I could but partially perceive his features
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While this strange dialogue continued, I perceived the crowd rapidly increase.
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On perceiving me, the stranger addressed me in English, although with a foreign accent.
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He scrambled to his feet, and perceiving, evidently, the size of his assailant, ran quickly off, shouting alarms.
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She only perceived that Anne had made a very thorough apology and all resentment vanished from her kindly, if somewhat officious, heart.
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Blinded by the glare of the headlights and confused by the incessant groaning of the horns, the apparition stood swaying for a moment before he perceived the man in the duster.
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Over the ashheaps the giant eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg kept their vigil, but I perceived, after a moment, that other eyes were regarding us with peculiar intensity from less than twenty feet away.
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She certainly understands you better than you are understood by the greater part of those who have known you so long; and with regard to some others, I can perceive, from occasional lively hints, the unguarded expressions of the moment, that she could define many as accurately, did not delicacy forbid it.
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Olly, though without the tact to perceive when remarks were untimely, was saved by her very simplicity from rendering them offensive.
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perceive = notice (be aware of)
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I had been looking steadily at the top of this hogshead for some minutes, and what now caused me surprise was the fact that I had not sooner perceived the object thereupon.
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It had been wrought, as was easy to perceive, with wonderful skill of needlework; and the stitch (as I am assured by ladies conversant with such mysteries) gives evidence of a now forgotten art, not to be discovered even by the process of picking out the threads.
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You must suppose me designed for some profession, and might perceive that I am neither a lawyer, nor a soldier, nor a sailor.
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The house fronts the east, I perceive.
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- Nor do I—whom the scarlet letter has disciplined to truth, though it be the truth of red-hot iron entering into the soul—nor do I perceive such advantage in his living any longer a life of ghastly emptiness, that I shall stoop to implore thy mercy. (source)
- Pearl set forth at a great pace, and as Hester smiled to perceive, did actually catch the sunshine, and stood laughing in the midst of it, all brightened by its splendour, and scintillating with the vivacity excited by rapid motion. (source)
- The old man, I could perceive, often endeavoured to encourage his children, as sometimes I found that he called them, to cast off their melancholy. (source)
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Sir Thomas came towards the table where she sat in trembling wretchedness, and with a good deal of cold sternness, said, "It is of no use, I perceive, to talk to you."
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Hester Prynne looked at the man of skill, and even then, with her fate hanging in the balance, was startled to perceive what a change had come over his features—how much uglier they were, how his dark complexion seemed to have grown duskier, and his figure more misshapen—since the days when she had familiarly known him.
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She could only perceive that it must relate to Wimpole Street and Mr. Crawford, and only conjecture that something very imprudent had just occurred in that quarter to draw the notice of the world, and to excite her jealousy, in Miss Crawford's apprehension, if she heard it.
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But I perceive your thoughts; you do not credit my narrative and do not intend to pursue my enemy with the punishment which is his desert.
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The earliest riser, coming forth in the dim twilight, would perceive a vaguely-defined figure aloft on the place of shame; and half-crazed betwixt alarm and curiosity, would go knocking from door to door, summoning all the people to behold the ghost—as he needs must think it—of some defunct transgressor.
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perceive = see
- My eyes became accustomed to the light and to perceive objects in their right forms; I distinguished the insect from the herb, and by degrees, one herb from another. (source)
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He talked to her more, and, from all that she said, was convinced of her having an affectionate heart, and a strong desire of doing right; and he could perceive her to be farther entitled to attention by great sensibility of her situation, and great timidity.
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"I have had a little fit since I came into this room, as you may perceive," said she presently, with a playful smile, "but it is over now; so let us sit down and be comfortable; for as to scolding you, Fanny, which I came fully intending to do, I have not the heart for it when it comes to the point."
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perceive = see (have awareness of)
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I began also to observe, with greater accuracy, the forms that surrounded me and to perceive the boundaries of the radiant roof of light which canopied me.
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Again, at the first instant of perceiving that thin visage, and the slight deformity of the figure, she pressed her infant to her bosom with so convulsive a force that the poor babe uttered another cry of pain.
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August 19, 17— Yesterday the stranger said to me, "You may easily perceive, Captain Walton, that I have suffered great and unparalleled misfortunes."
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Perceiving a flock of beach-birds that fed and fluttered along the shore, the naughty child picked up her apron full of pebbles, and, creeping from rock to rock after these small sea-fowl, displayed remarkable dexterity in pelting them.
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As a general reflection on Fanny, Sir Thomas thought nothing could be more unjust, though he had been so lately expressing the same sentiments himself, and he tried to turn the conversation: tried repeatedly before he could succeed; for Mrs. Norris had not discernment enough to perceive, either now, or at any other time, to what degree he thought well of his niece, or how very far he was from wishing to have his own children's merits set off by the depreciation of hers.
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When they reached the market-place, she became still more restless, on perceiving the stir and bustle that enlivened the spot; for it was usually more like the broad and lonesome green before a village meeting-house, than the centre of a town's business.
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I see by your eagerness and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be informed of the secret with which I am acquainted; that cannot be; listen patiently until the end of my story, and you will easily perceive why I am reserved upon that subject.
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Susan tried to be useful, where she could only have gone away and cried; and that Susan was useful she could perceive; that things, bad as they were, would have been worse but for such interposition, and that both her mother and Betsey were restrained from some excesses of very offensive indulgence and vulgarity.
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It was perceived, too, that while Hester never put forward even the humblest title to share in the world's privileges—further than to breathe the common air and earn daily bread for little Pearl and herself by the faithful labour of her hands—she was quick to acknowledge her sisterhood with the race of man whenever benefits were to be conferred.
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The Crawfords laughed at the idea; and having soon agreed on the propriety of their walking quietly home and leaving the family to themselves, proposed Mr. Yates's accompanying them and spending the evening at the Parsonage. But Mr. Yates, having never been with those who thought much of parental claims, or family confidence, could not perceive that anything of the kind was necessary; and therefore...
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"I understand your feeling," continued he, perceiving that I wished to interrupt him; "but you are mistaken, my friend, if thus you will allow me to name you; nothing can alter my destiny; listen to my history, and you will perceive how irrevocably it is determined."
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The old man, whom I soon perceived to be blind, employed his leisure hours on his instrument or in contemplation.
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Miss Crawford, untouched and inattentive, had nothing to say; and Fanny, perceiving it, brought back her own mind to what she thought must interest.
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It had a wild and rocky appearance, but as I approached nearer I easily perceived the traces of cultivation.
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He perceived that enough had been said of Everingham, and that it would be as well to talk of something else, and turned to Mansfield.
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I perceived, as the shape came nearer (sight tremendous and abhorred!) that it was the wretch whom I had created.
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"You cannot think I mean to hurry you," said he, in an undervoice, perceiving the amazing trepidation with which she made up the note, "you cannot think I have any such object."
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As I turned the promontory I perceived a small neat town and a good harbour, which I entered, my heart bounding with joy at my unexpected escape.
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She had never heard him speak so openly before, and though it told her no more than what she had long perceived, it was a stab, for it told of his own convictions and views.
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The peasant woman, perceiving that my mother fixed eyes of wonder and admiration on this lovely girl, eagerly communicated her history.
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Her own musings were brought to an end on perceiving Mr. Crawford before her, and her thoughts were put into another channel by his engaging her almost instantly for the first two dances.
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- At the very moment of Yates perceiving Sir Thomas, and giving perhaps the very best start he had ever given in the whole course of his rehearsals, Tom Bertram entered at the other end of the room; and never had he found greater difficulty in keeping his countenance. (source)
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"My dear Frankenstein," exclaimed Henry, when he perceived me weep with bitterness, "are you always to be unhappy?"
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Fanny's colour grew deeper and deeper; and her uncle, perceiving that she was embarrassed to a degree that made either speaking or looking up quite impossible, turned away his own eyes, and without any farther pause proceeded in his account of Mr. Crawford's visit.
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He had also changed my apartment; for he perceived that I had acquired a dislike for the room which had previously been my laboratory.
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—and on perceiving her, came forward with a kindness which astonished and penetrated her, calling her his dear Fanny, kissing her affectionately, and observing with decided pleasure how much she was grown!
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As it drew nearer I observed that it was the Swiss diligence; it stopped just where I was standing, and on the door being opened, I perceived Henry Clerval, who, on seeing me, instantly sprung out.
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She acknowledged her fears, blamed herself for having contended so warmly; and from that hour Fanny, understanding the worth of her disposition and perceiving how fully she was inclined to seek her good opinion and refer to her judgment, began to feel again the blessing of affection, and to entertain the hope of being useful to a mind so much in need of help, and so much deserving it.
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He turned on hearing a noise, and perceiving me, shrieked loudly, and quitting the hut, ran across the fields with a speed of which his debilitated form hardly appeared capable.
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Some turn in the road, some new object suddenly perceived and recognized, reminded me of days gone by, and were associated with the lighthearted gaiety of boyhood.
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…and though infinitely above scheming or contriving for any the most advantageous matrimonial establishment that could be among the apparent possibilities of any one most dear to him, and disdaining even as a littleness the being quick-sighted on such points, he could not avoid perceiving, in a grand and careless way, that Mr. Crawford was somewhat distinguishing his niece—nor perhaps refrain (though unconsciously) from giving a more willing assent to invitations on that account.
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When he returned, to understand how Fanny was situated, and perceived its ill effects, there seemed with him but one thing to be done; and that "Fanny must have a horse" was the resolute declaration with which he opposed whatever could be urged by the supineness of his mother, or the economy of his aunt, to make it appear unimportant.
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I soon perceived that although the stranger uttered articulate sounds and appeared to have a language of her own, she was neither understood by nor herself understood the cottagers.
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- Here Fanny, who could not but listen, involuntarily shook her head, and Crawford was instantly by her side again, entreating to know her meaning; and as Edmund perceived, by his drawing in a chair, and sitting down close by her, that it was to be a very thorough attack, that looks and undertones were to be well tried, he sank as quietly as possible into a corner, turned his back, and took up a newspaper, very sincerely wishing that dear little Fanny might be persuaded into explaining… (source)
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As I said these words, I perceived in the gloom a figure which stole from behind a clump of trees near me; I stood fixed, gazing intently: I could not be mistaken.
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- Perceived softness is as bad for public order as actual softness.† (source)
- Compared to the bookworms of the scientific world, your experience as a cop makes you far more likely to perceive such a large-scale conspiracy.† (source)
- By extension, one also knows that the farther one sits from the head, the less powerful, important, and legitimate one is likely to be perceived.† (source)
- Maybe Eric perceives Four as a potential threat to his position.† (source)
- The key aim is to diminish an animal's flight distance, which is the minimum distance at which an animal wants to keep a perceived enemy.† (source)
- I turned back toward the front gate of the prison, trying to regain my focus, but I couldn't make myself indifferent to what I perceived were symbols of racial oppression.† (source)
- Two months ago, an Opus Dei group at a midwestern university had been caught drugging new recruits with mescaline in an effort to induce a euphoric state that neophytes would perceive as a religious experience.† (source)
- You'll forgive me for saying so, my dear, but I perceive very little aura around you.† (source)
- Being from the mountains of north Georgia, Cook knew that a Savannah jury would perceive him as a slick, out-of-town lawyer.† (source)
- That whereas for thirty-six years they had swum around me in complicated patterns that I had at best dimly perceived through murky water, now all was clear.† (source)
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- It's not that they're loners, but in their minds, they perceive that they are not members of the group to the same degree as anyone else in that group.† (source)
- Not even in Owen's odd room did I perceive enough, although no one could escape the feeling that—at the very least—an altar-in-progress was under construction there.† (source)
- We're dealing with your mind, and the slightest mishap in what you're thinking or interpreting or perceiving can render the resultant findings worthless.† (source)
- For not only is it capable of transmitting thought, but also — to a certain extent — of perceiving thought.† (source)
- To grow up in that house, with a brother like that, to bask every day in the glory he'd brought to the family—his siblings' pride in Mohammed fueled how they felt when they awoke each day, how they walked and talked and were perceived in Jableh and Arwad and everywhere across Syria.† (source)
- Mama Elena perceived this desire as a constant presence between them, in every little conversation, in every word, in every glance.† (source)
- It is easier to trick others into perceiving you as beautiful if you can convince yourself you are beautiful.† (source)
- It could be perceived as weakness.† (source)
- He says he felt "uncomfortable" when he went for his interviews downtown, and of course he did: he was short and ungainly and Jewish and talked with the flat, nasal tones of his native Brooklyn, and you can imagine how he would have been perceived by some silver-haired patrician in the library.† (source)
- To perceive that blowing up the drum will be the only way to achieve my mission.† (source)
- Twelve of the Riders joined Galbatorix out of desire for power and revenge against perceived wrongs.† (source)
- It meant I would be accused, abused, pushed around, and ordered to do something to make up for some perceived wrong.† (source)
- I understand how difficult it is for you, so lost in your perceptions of reality and yet so sure of your own judgments, to even begin to perceive, let alone imagine, who real love and goodness are.† (source)
- And though that would be perceived as Kevin's doing, I could be made to suffer for it.† (source)
- The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception and memory combined with the sensitivity to what is perceived and remembered.† (source)
- When he was alone, he turned destructive, gouging away at whatever stood between him and perceived safety.† (source)
- Never fool yourself into perceiving things that don't exist.† (source)
- And whereas before, her mother's and Jaimito's mother's hints were the intrusion of elders into what was none of their business, now it seems the old people were perceiving destiny.† (source)
- Adel felt as though, overnight, he had acquired an altogether new auxiliary sense, one that empowered him to perceive things he never had before, things that had stared him in the face for years.† (source)
- Her oddness, her complete nonawareness of what the world thought of her, a nonchalance in the face of what I perceived to be imminent danger from blacks and whites who disliked her for being a white person in a black world.† (source)
- He put his arm around my shoulders and said, "Randy, it's such a shame that people perceive you as being so arrogant, because it's going to limit what you're going to be able to accomplish in life."† (source)
- He spends much of his youth adopting ways of walking that will hide his deficiency, as he perceives it.† (source)
- The fair's greatest impact lay in how it changed the way Americans perceived their cities and their architects.† (source)
- ...THE CONGRESS HAVE JUDGED IT NECESSARY TO DISSOLVE THE CONNECTION BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE AMERICAN COLONIES, AND TO DECLARE THEM FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES; AS YOU WILL PERCEIVE BY THE ENCLOSED DECLARATION....I AM DIRECTED ...TO REQUEST YOU HAVE IT PROCLAIMED AT THE HEAD OF THE ARMY, IN THE WAY YOU SHALL THINK MOST PROPER.† (source)
- It was several days before I perceived that most of these "girls" were young men in hiding from the forced-labor conscription, which had grown more ruthless than ever.† (source)
- On TV the rangers and the SWAT squad and the paramedics were a friendly white force counterbalancing the confused evil that he perceived in the world; when people got in trouble they were helped out of it, they were fixed up.† (source)
- NADIA PERCEIVED the presence of this woman not in the form of a distancing by Saeed, as might have been expected, but rather as a warming up and reaching out.† (source)
- The chariot is a manifestation of the sun's power, the way mortals perceive it Make sense?† (source)
- I had excellent vision going into the course, but it wasn't so much seeing as learning to perceive—knowing what sort of movement should get your attention, discerning subtle shapes that can tip off a waiting ambush.† (source)
- One is the external conditions that we cannot know of before we have perceived them through the senses.† (source)
- arrived in Varna, I had perceived certain changes in her which made me at once aware she was Lestat's daughter as well as my own.† (source)
- The way you perceive us, you might not be able to see her asBella anymore.† (source)
- His value, once perceived, was indestructible.† (source)
- Moore knew that this might be perceived as cowardly, and was very different from what people expect of a DCI—but even spies got old, and old men developed consciences and doubts that rarely troubled the young.† (source)
- As The Enforcer revolves, Hiro perceives that he has been impaled on an eight-foot-long bamboo spear.† (source)
- Tired of the pain in his bones and the secret illness that only he perceived, he had decided it was time to be examined by foreign doctors; he had reached the premature conclusion that Latin doctors were all charlatans who were closer to sorcerers than scientists.† (source)
- Despite all our efforts, the suicide bombers just continued, young Iraqis convinced by the teachings of the extremist ayatollahs that the murder of their perceived enemies would open the gateway to paradise for them-that the three trumpets would sound and they would cross the bridge into the arms of Allah and everlasting happiness.† (source)
- When that control was violated—or perceived to have been violated—Luma's reflex, it seemed, was to banish the violator.† (source)
- She has a natural ability—an intuitive sense—that enables her to perceive what should be done.† (source)
- I'd get to see what their lives were like and how they were perceived and treated.† (source)
- It was the smell of human fermentation, which he had perceived in his oldest lovers and they had detected in him.† (source)
- A talent for seeing patterns and understanding abstract reasoning where other people perceive only white noise.† (source)
- I know people often criticized the strength (or lack of perceived strength) of our out-of-conference schedule, but our next opponent, Troy, had a solid team.† (source)
- For of a truth I perceive that this is no ordinary rain that is falling upon our kingdom.† (source)
- No amount of effort could have stopped that, because our points of view—the way we perceive things—are inextricably linked to our beliefs.† (source)
- Perhaps sensing that this characterization of how I got here might be perceived as insensitive, he chuckles.† (source)
- "Sonny asked us if he could build a rocket, Homer," she replied, as if she were amazed he had not perceived the perfectly obvious.† (source)
- It took me two seconds of listening to Clancy talk the situation out to realize that the way of life at East River wasn't built on a foundation of hard and fast rules, but rested almost entirely on his good judgment and what everyone under him perceived to be fair.† (source)
- Only as the bus pulled up did I glance at Miss Kenton and perceived that her eyes had filled with tears.† (source)
- Did or did he not perceive, with the tremulous tip of eyelash if not the eye, their passage through, their wait beyond, warm wax amongst cold, waiting to be key-wound by terrors, run free in panics?† (source)
- Then there was the whole image question and how she wanted to be perceived, not only by Jeremy but by everyone else who would see them together.† (source)
- What she is trying to do now is to transform what her eyes grasp and her senses perceive into the simplest and most appropriate words she can find.† (source)
- The same anger that causes most petty theft, the same desire to strike back at an employer perceived as unfair, can escalate to armed robbery.† (source)
- He perceived himself to be "very shy" with girls, but felt he had had lots of close guy and girl friends in high school.† (source)
- If there are any smells in the air, you perceive them.† (source)
- But it is perceived as reliable enough in poor countries with low levels of education, and woe to the girl who has lost hers.† (source)
- Why is it so important that you're perceived as a bad boy, huh?† (source)
- He perceived a danger far greater than anything I could imagine.† (source)
- The murderous potential can become activated, especially if some disequilibrium is already present, when the victim-to-be is unconsciously perceived as a key figure in some past traumatic configuration.† (source)
- While she was well past the point of trusting men, she soon perceived that Gus was in a class by himself, at least in Lonesome Dove.† (source)
- He would also perceive that you were exactly what you seemed to be—you have an air of innocence, Ben, that cannot be denied even to a man like Artkin.† (source)
- This is because the intelligent and focused fencer can successfully compensate for any perceived deficiencies he or she may have, and may even be able to turn those deficiencies—such as strength or reach—into assets.† (source)
- In truth, the situation was worse than they realized, and no one perceived this as clearly as Washington.† (source)
- I thought they had an odd transcendental way of perceiving things which was closed to me.† (source)
- Ultimate wisdom, I have come to perceive, lies in the perception that the solemnity and grandeur of the universe rise through the slow process of unification in which the diversities of existence are utilized, and nothing, nothing is lost.† (source)
- Doubtless, most sagacious of cats,' says the other, 'you have perceived my meaning.† (source)
- She looked at me closely, and only a person who knew her face well could have perceived the muscles relaxing and interpreted this as an indication of concern.† (source)
- Of course, when Ethan stopped by that perceived connection severed immediately.† (source)
- Over the years, a series of "audit studies" have tried to measure how people perceive different names.† (source)
- Nately was appalled and bewildered by the abominable old man's inability to perceive the enormity of his offence.† (source)
- And I'm not the type of woman who goes all mushy and gooey over flowers, or sees them as an apology for an argument, a prelude to sex, or any of the other oft-perceived uses.† (source)
- The wisest among us, Elias Bram, perceived that these events were not random follies of man.† (source)
- He harped continuously upon his perceived reason for all the troubles that had ever beset him: "I was suspended because I am Iranian.† (source)
- Now here, in my third prison, I perceived an odd truth that held for each: no one ran them.† (source)
- Throughout the first year of her husband's presidency, her perceived accessibility has endeared Jackie Kennedy to America and the world.† (source)
- I say to you, Frodo, that even as I speak to you, I perceive the Dark Lord and know his mind, or all of his mind that concerns the Elves.† (source)
- When Hazel woke he perceived at once that it was morning—some time after sunrise, by the smell of it.† (source)
- And he was invited to the director's office for cocoa and sermons on Love and Loss, and How a Christian Deals with Grief The only difference he perceived was that he no longer had any visitor or presents on his birthday, or at Christmas.† (source)
- If I lied, if I said, "No, I do not," I knew I would be perceived as telling the truth in my confusion between four and five.† (source)
- I perceive I am perhaps coming down with a slight cold, and I will not have you fuss and panic me so!† (source)
- He doesn't perceive these as crimes but as moments of personal power, personal statement.† (source)
- When Americans celebrate the Fourth of July with an Iwo Jima Flagraising float, they perceive it's their inspiration.† (source)
- So—there is an evident, self-conscious class factor in how people wish their speech to be perceived.† (source)
- You can't perceive it, but the earth responds by pushing you away from it.† (source)
- In all of the Oriental religions great value is placed on the Sanskrit doctrine of Tat tvam asi, "Thou art that," which asserts that everything you think you are and everything you think you perceive are undivided.† (source)
- He ignored me, staring into Trueblood's face as though reading a message there which I could not perceive.† (source)
- Out of the corner of his eye he perceived movement; Koenig had shifted his head, nodding at both men.† (source)
- The abolitionists were still widely perceived as religious extremists by most people in the country.† (source)
- "I went with the rest," Chamberlin remembered, "[and] stood on the embankment that had been Canal Street, and perceived, through the clouds of smoke, a bright light across the river...."† (source)
- I told Mr. de Klerk that if that was how his party's paper perceived group rights, how did he think we regarded it?† (source)
- Recreation was secondary to survival, though Padre Esteban perceived that the two were not mutually exclusive.† (source)
- Kahlid had possessed the strength to snap innocent bones for what he perceived to be the salvation of many mothers and daughters in his country.† (source)
- With the jockeys' efforts widely perceived as the formation of a union against stewards, owners, and trainers, Pollard feared that he might offend the Howards by crossing the street and walking into the golf club.† (source)
- Felicia's eyesight dimmed until she could perceive only shadows, and the right side of her head swelled with mushroomy lumps.† (source)
- The guard came out because he was curious about what he had already perceived to have been an irregularity.† (source)
- Reason is the faculty that perceives, identifies and integrates the material provided by his senses.† (source)
- This is how it had been for as long as I could remember, but on that day I perceived and felt her disregard.† (source)
- The point is that war is war no matter how it's perceived.† (source)
- After three hours or more we began to perceive uncertainly a line of deeper darkness ahead, and presently the edge of more forest solidified to loom up like a black wall.† (source)
- Or maybe Akar Kessell simply perceives the strength of his advantage and knows that we have no choice but to comply.† (source)
- They monitor the soldiers' behavior for perceived human rights abuses and advocate for Palestinians denied passage.† (source)
- Through the red lenses of his defensive anger, Joe perceived her calmness as a tool of manipulation.† (source)
- Clary knew what it cost Jace to say it, how much of his life had been expertly hiding fear and pain and any perceived vulnerability.† (source)
- Socrates at the time of Clouds must have been perceived more as a harmless town character than as a serious threat to Athenian values and democracy.† (source)
- The children all stared at the newcomers with what Lou perceived as unfriendly eyes.† (source)
- Almost immediately following the rape, I started overreacting to anyone who I perceived was trying to bully me.† (source)
- "And I don't perceive them ever being a threat," Tyler said.† (source)
- I myself had been cutting back on my visits to the shop in recent months, as I'd decided to curtail my pipe smoking to one bowl a week instead of my longtime three or four; but also, I've been finding that the conversation there, which is usually entertaining and vigorous, has been somewhat sodden of late, as the fellows have been preoccupied with perceived "changes" in the character of the town and area, changes that Renny has obviously been compelled to address.† (source)
- He lost no time in taking advantage of what he most likely perceived as a momentary lapse of sanity and rushed out of the room.† (source)
- IT WAS AN ALL-TOO-FAMILIAR Story—a Story Of disillusion and dissatisfaction, of needs unmet, of economic and marital hopes dashed, of rage against the Americans and Jews over their perceived mistreatment of Muslims.† (source)
- They instantly perceived the vulnerability of our position and its maddening elements of uncertainty.† (source)
- He believed that the exterior world could be transferred to paper—not in the ghost shadings of black and white but in the colors the human eye perceives.† (source)
- Always this was an affront to black men, one of the many affronts that white men apparently could not perceive.† (source)
- "Yes, I perceive the truth of what you say," answered the other.† (source)
- He was only 60, an age I have begun desperately to perceive as being virtually in life's springtide.† (source)
- She fingers it until she perceives what it is; then she wraps it around her and acquiring ANNIE'S bonnet and smoked glasses as well, dons the lot: the shawl swamps her and the bonnet settles down upon the glasses, but she stands before a mirror cocking her head to one side, then to the other, in a mockery of adult action.† (source)
- At first its movement was so slow that it could hardly be perceived, but second by second it was gaining speed.† (source)
- At times he felt, deep in his chest, a dying, quiet voice, which admonished him quietly, lamented quietly; he hardly perceived it.† (source)
- He perceived the entire situation in half a second and, with only a sour scowl, retreated out the door and went to drive the automobile around to the back.† (source)
- They liked coffins carried out because of the chance they could perceive that coffins might be dropped and the dead people spilled right out.† (source)
- He wrote his wife that he wished he was in a financial position to vacate his office without doing his family injustice:This world is a miserable one to me except in its connection with you...I get a great many complimentary letters from the North, very few from Mississippi...Can it be true that the South will condemn the disinterested love of those who, perceiving her real interests, offer their unarmored breasts as barriers against the invasion of error?† (source)
- It was when John was five years old and in the first grade that he was first noticed; and since he was noticed by an eye altogether alien and impersonal, he began to perceive, in wild uneasiness, his individual existence.† (source)
- Maybe their mortal senses perceived him as a cute child or a funny pet dog.† (source)
- The Volturi come to erase what they perceive as the competition.† (source)
- What is perceived as being known is only a small part of what may be stored in this dark repository.† (source)
- In fact, he had not even perceived it as part of Bernini's fountain.† (source)
- He puffed up a hit at my perceived compliment, then looked more closely at me.† (source)
- Before we perceive anything, the mind is a 'tabula rasa'—or an empty slate.† (source)
- Only Michael knew that there was a big gap between where he was and where he was perceived to be.† (source)
- I want anything that breaks the monotony, subverts the perceived respectable order of things.† (source)
- True, but it's close, and that's how the eye will initially perceive it.† (source)
- The audience could not perceive it, I could.† (source)
- COLONEL GERINELDO MÃRQUEZ was the first to perceive the emptiness of the war.† (source)
- They perceive things far better than we could ever imagine.† (source)
- I must assume it moves in a dimension I cannot yet perceive.† (source)
- It is an infringement even if the intent may be perceived as benign and socially valid.† (source)
- Y.T. does not perceive any waiting tune, no zipping up of the fly or washing of the hands.† (source)
- I sure perceived the threat of that gun.† (source)
- But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a different story.† (source)
- Mack, there is far more going on here than you have the ability to perceive.† (source)
- As his vision blurred, he perceived a muted shape overhead that immediately woke him.† (source)
- At that moment I perceived an orange mass.† (source)
- The human eye perceives motion much quicker than shapes and figures.† (source)
- Empedocles also raised the question of what happens when we perceive something.† (source)
- Let me remind you that there was an era when even the brightest minds perceived the earth as flat.† (source)
- He said the only things that exist are those we perceive.† (source)
- He can let us 'perceive' all kinds of things; nothing would surprise me.† (source)
- No, why don't you use Hume's method and analyze what you perceive as your 'ego.'† (source)
- But outer reality also has certain characteristics that we can perceive with our reason.† (source)
- We could perhaps saythat Heraclitus had more faith in what he could perceive than Parmenides did.† (source)
- Our own lives influence the way we perceive things in the room.† (source)
- Hume showed that we can neither perceive nor prove natural laws.† (source)
- But we do not perceive 'material' or 'matter.'† (source)
- But you cannot have true knowledge of anything you can perceive with your eyes.† (source)
- Locke emphasized that the only things we can perceive are simple sensations.† (source)
- He believed we cannot know any more of the world than we can perceive through the senses?† (source)
- This is also true of the way we perceive the sexes.† (source)
- We do not perceive things as tangible objects.† (source)
- For we cannot perceive the matter itself that our reality is made of, that much we have learned.† (source)
- We are partly instrumental in deciding what we perceive by selecting what is significant for us.† (source)
- Berkeley claimed that worldly things are indeed as we perceive them, but they are not 'things.'† (source)
- Christianity is a divine mystery that we can only perceive through faith.† (source)
- Now he asked whether the world really is the way we perceive it.† (source)
- We can only say we perceive it as being so.† (source)
- That's because the glasses limit the way you perceive reality.† (source)
- To assume that what we perceive has its own underlying 'substance' is jumping to conclusions.† (source)
- Can you perceive all of nature at one time—the whole universe, in fact— at a single glance?† (source)
- /"Sartre tried to prove that consciousness in itself is nothing until it has perceived something.† (source)
- He perceived with his senses that things changed.† (source)
- The child perceives the world as it is, without putting more into things than he experiences.† (source)
- But notice the intuitive certainty with which he suddenly perceives himself as a thinking being.† (source)
- Whatever we see will first and foremost be perceived as phenomena in time and space.† (source)
- He only accepted what he had perceived through his senses.† (source)
- So he thought that perceiving things in time and space was innate?† (source)
- But you can know that what you see and experience will be perceived as happening in time and space.† (source)
- Then finally we perceived a possible connection, which you just confirmed.† (source)
- At the time, I didn't realize how selfish my actions were or how Ruth might have perceived them.† (source)
- Somehow infect me with the weakness I perceived in her?† (source)
- Some people's anger makes them want to kill everyone they perceive as an enemy.† (source)
- Nor can I perceive that place from which it came.† (source)
- It will be perceived as being a worse teacher of technical subjects like physics.† (source)
- I was candid about how both the PAC and the ANC were perceived in the rest of Africa.† (source)
- And the room might not even exist as she perceived it.† (source)
- I'm beginning to think that you perceive me as spoiled.† (source)
- That was perceived as scandalously intrusive.† (source)
- Max perceived the maiden with such clarity that she might have been an arm's length away.† (source)
- He could feel, think, see, perceive panic and struggle-yet strangely there was peace.† (source)
- In San Francisco, for the first time, I perceived myself as part of something.† (source)
- While still far from the Hall, it was possible to perceive the uproar underway there.† (source)
- Where you perceive a threat, we recognize an opportunity.† (source)
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