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  • There's a sense of sovereignty that comes from life on a mountain, a perception of privacy and isolation, even of dominion.   (source)
    perception = a belief or opinion formed by viewing things a certain way
  • While you're busy knitting sweaters, my dear, I have to deal with the community's perception of our family.   (source)
    perception = belief or opinion formed by viewing things a certain way
  • She said that sexual assault was a crime of perception.   (source)
    perception = a belief or opinion formed by viewing things a certain way
  • It remains a mystery why these three young men, veterans of the same training and the same crash, differed so radically in their perceptions of their plight.   (source)
    perceptions = opinions formed by viewing things a certain way
  • The point is, the brain talks to itself, and by talking to itself changes its perceptions.   (source)
    perceptions = beliefs or opinions formed by viewing things a certain way
  • If your perception is false, then your emotional response to it will be false too.   (source)
    perception = belief or opinion formed by viewing things a certain way
  • Though all three men faced the same hardship, their differing perceptions of it appeared to be shaping their fates.   (source)
    perceptions = opinions formed by viewing things a certain way
  • It was then I realized how cruelly I had judged her, how my perception of her had been distorted, because I'd been looking at her through my father's harsh lens.   (source)
    perception = a belief or opinion formed by viewing things a certain way
  • To convince myself that there was some dignity in what I planned to do, in surrendering my own perceptions of right and wrong, of reality, of sanity itself, to earn the love of my parents.   (source)
    perceptions = beliefs or opinions formed by viewing things a certain way
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  • He felt himself overwhelmed with a new perception of the color he knew as red.   (source)
    perception = sense
  • "And bless our sister in her weakness and affliction." Whom did he mean? Heavens, was he talking about Mercy? Had the man no perception at all? How Mercy must be shriveling...   (source)
    perception = ability to see and understand
  • Hume opposed all thoughts and ideas that could not be traced back to corresponding sense perceptions.   (source)
    perceptions = something sensed
  • Quite a young chap, but he'd had perceptions, that boy.   (source)
    perceptions = observations (of things sensed)
  • In the silence Lily had a clear perception of what was passing through his mind.   (source)
    perception = sense (understanding)
  • All this was accomplished with a subtlety so perfect, that the minister, though he had constantly a dim perception of some evil influence watching over him, could never gain a knowledge of its actual nature.   (source)
    perception = sense
  • You had endowed me with perceptions and passions and then cast me abroad an object for the scorn and horror of mankind.   (source)
    perceptions = things seen and felt
  • Fanny had been everywhere awake to the difference of the country since February; but when they entered the Park her perceptions and her pleasures were of the keenest sort.   (source)
    perceptions = observations (of things sensed)
  • Dimly, from a nearly forgotten perception as blurred as the substance itself, Jonas recalled what the whiteness was.   (source)
    perception = sense
  • At first, it was a sort of stupefaction; but every moment was quickening her perception of the horrible evil.   (source)
    perception = understanding
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  • So vivid was the expression, or so intense the minister's perception of it, that it seemed still to remain painted on the darkness after the meteor had vanished, with an effect as if the street and all things else were at once annihilated.   (source)
    perception = sensing
  • He entered the accustomed room, and looked around him on its books, its windows, its fireplace, and the tapestried comfort of the walls, with the same perception of strangeness that had haunted him throughout his walk from the forest dell into the town and thitherward.   (source)
    perception = sensations
  • It was not an age of delicacy; and her position, although she understood it well, and was in little danger of forgetting it, was often brought before her vivid self-perception, like a new anguish, by the rudest touch upon the tenderest spot.   (source)
    perception = understanding
  • I know not that I especially needed the lesson, either in the way of warning or rebuke; but at any rate, I learned it thoroughly: nor, it gives me pleasure to reflect, did the truth, as it came home to my perception, ever cost me a pang, or require to be thrown off in a sigh.   (source)
  • My conclusion was that he had no soul, no heart, no mind; nothing, as I have already said, but instincts; and yet, withal, so cunningly had the few materials of his character been put together that there was no painful perception of deficiency, but, on my part, an entire contentment with what I found in him.   (source)
  • These perceptions had come too late.   (source)
    perceptions = understandings
  • But Old Roger Chillingworth, too, had perceptions that were almost intuitive; and when the minister threw his startled eyes towards him, there the physician sat; his kind, watchful, sympathising, but never intrusive friend.   (source)
    perceptions = observations (of things sensed)
  • A group from Alaska showed how stimulation of various portions of the brain caused a significant development in learning ability, and a group from New Zealand had mapped out those portions of the brain that controlled perception and retention of stimuli.   (source)
    perception = sensing
  • A switch in perception, and I was out on the fire escape again, watching a man and a woman inside, making love on the couch.   (source)
    perception = perspective giving a different impression
  • About my perception: everything is sharp and clear, each sensation heightened and illuminated so that reds and yellows and blues glow.   (source)
    perception = sensations
  • A sharp switch in perception. I saw, from some point in the darkness behind a tree, the two of us lying in each other's arms.   (source)
    perception = perspective giving a different impression
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  • But what she'd lost in agility she'd gained in perception—in her capacity to peer into him.†   (source)
  • I'm annoyed that he has this perception of me, and even more annoyed that he's right.†   (source)
  • But while Sofia shared Nina's clarity of perception and confidence of opinion, she was entirely different in demeanor.†   (source)
  • It was about people's perceptions.†   (source)
  • But he doesn't doubt that it will now fail to live up to this perception.†   (source)
  • My perception of Hopkins was as a distant force in the neighborhood, a research university responsible for some of the greatest medical gifts the world has ever received, but that had very little to do with the life of the city I knew.†   (source)
  • BECAUSE HE HAD not slept in heaven, it was Eddie's perception that he had not spent more than a few hours with any of the people he'd met.†   (source)
  • She might not have machines to read Tally's voice and heartbeat and sweat, but her own perceptions were alert.†   (source)
  • The music was still playing: somewhere, at the edge of perception, solemn and strange.†   (source)
  • And it made my imagination do unexpected things; as I sat there, I found myself thinking of things I hadn't thought of for years, old emotions washing over me, new thoughts and ideas being pulled from me as if my perception itself were being stretched out of shape.†   (source)
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  • But to the Wizarding community at large …. it's all perception, isn't it?†   (source)
  • It was Wu's deepest perception that the park was fundamentally sound, as he believed his paleo-DNA was fundamentally sound.†   (source)
  • She said this righteously, as if the mistakenness of this perception was self-evident.†   (source)
  • My enduring perception of those nights is that Lydia's wheelchair needed to be oiled and that Dan complained, with uncharacteristic bitterness, about what a mess amateurs could make of A Christmas Carol.†   (source)
  • It was a very simple, very clear perception, a moment of truth, the kind of understanding that I have heard comes at the moment of death.†   (source)
  • Contrary to common perception, Renaissance cathedrals invariably contained multiple chapels, huge cathedrals like Notre Dame having dozens.†   (source)
  • Use perception and logic.†   (source)
  • As a Chinese American born in Southern California, my perception of China's Cultural Revolution was limited to stories that filtered out from the few relatives who had stayed behind.†   (source)
  • Her immediate, reeling perception was of a radical, Picasso-like perspective in which tears, rimmed and bloated eyes, wet lips and raw, unblown nose blended in a crimson moistness of grief.†   (source)
  • My father's response times were slower than most, as if he moved in a world where a crushing inevitability had robbed him of any hope of accurate perception.†   (source)
  • "Okay, how's your depth perception?"†   (source)
  • We see the child's perception as he moves through a horrifying continuum, from an idealistic family life to becoming a "prisoner of war" in his own home.†   (source)
  • …came across) supposedly relates the experiences of one Veet Voojagig, a quiet young student at the University of Maximegalon, who pursued a brilliant academic career studying ancient philology, transformational ethics and the wave harmonic theory of historical perception, and then, after a night of drinking Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters with Zaphod Beeblebrox, became increasingly obsessed with the problem of what had happened to all the ballpoints he'd bought over the past few years.†   (source)
  • Instinctively, Ender's perception of these events changed.†   (source)
  • Always taking my side, blaming his negative perceptions on the Capitol's torture.†   (source)
  • To avoid relying on my own perceptions, I interviewed most of the protagonists at great length and on multiple occasions.†   (source)
  • The Book of Shhh says that deliria alters your perception, disables your ability to reason clearly, impairs you from making sound judgments.†   (source)
  • The infrared filter was messing with his depth perception and he'd whacked his head on two protruding U-bends so far.†   (source)
  • If I were still friends with Lilly, she would probably say that my mother was lying to compensate for having traumatized my perception of her as a strictly maternal, and therefore nonsexual, being.†   (source)
  • Visions based on faulty perception, that's all.†   (source)
  • It's strange how knowledge changes perception.†   (source)
  • Depth perception and beer obviously weren't related.†   (source)
  • Time is slow, dripping slowly through the clogged filter of thickened perception.†   (source)
  • His identity trailed into the void as uncertainty and fear consumed his perceptions.†   (source)
  • I multiplied my perception of Anatole's intelligence by ten that day, and now looking back I have to do the same for everyone we knew.†   (source)
  • As pure and transcendent as any Idea which ever cast a shadow into Plato's dark cave of our perceptions.†   (source)
  • The perception that Ole Miss's treatment of black people might not be up to the high standards of, say, the University of Alabama was just one of the many problems Coach O faced when he set out to convince the region's top high school football players to come play for him—but he couldn't ignore it.†   (source)
  • They were nine hours that had changed the lives and perceptions of those who could stand it no more.†   (source)
  • It's funny how someone's perception of you can be formed without you even knowing it.†   (source)
  • The United States had only itself to blame for this perception.†   (source)
  • Rather, the scene is beautiful in its totality, or perhaps itwould be more accurate to say in his perception of its totality.†   (source)
  • Or will change the perception of them.†   (source)
  • And on like that until Mr. Powell told us both to hush because he wanted to talk about Audubon's use of the white space around the wing and the contrast in spatial perception that the two wings gave and artist stuff like that.†   (source)
  • Our perceptions of everything are organized by the flux of sensations passing over that framework.†   (source)
  • The color of a food can determine the perception of its taste.†   (source)
  • Here all perceptions were challenged.†   (source)
  • We've agreed to be part of a collective perception.†   (source)
  • Her powers of perception are really amazing.†   (source)
  • Of course, the servants' hall at Darlington Hall, like any servants' hall anywhere, was obliged to receive employees of varying degrees of intellect and perception, and I recall many a time having to bite my lip while some employee and at times, I regret to say, members of my own staff - excitedly eulogized the likes of, say, Mr Jack Neighbours.†   (source)
  • He assumed that I was waiting for winners over by the squirt guns, and then slipping a fifty to some guy who didn't realize how a giant stuffed animal could change the world's perception of him.†   (source)
  • Paradigms power perception and perceptions power emotions.†   (source)
  • Although she knew that solitary warped your perception of time, it was hard to believe she had been here—alone—for almost six months.†   (source)
  • They trusted me to listen and to act on their perceptions.†   (source)
  • But Parmenides' disciple, Zeno, proved through a series of paradoxes that any perception of motion and change is illusory.†   (source)
  • Sensory perception and reason.†   (source)
  • He was alone with his own perceptions and appetites, and they alone interested him.†   (source)
  • My own perception removed me from it.†   (source)
  • It didn't take much perception to realize he was trouble, and I had enough trouble in my life already.†   (source)
  • He said I had a high degree of 'extrasensory perception.'†   (source)
  • The public perception of a female judge is one that looks like Bea Arthur.†   (source)
  • It's all a matter of priority and perception.†   (source)
  • Or, if not why, the why of such matters being securely locked away from human perception, it was this quality in him which she most admired, and which she knew he could not live without.†   (source)
  • They seemed satisfied by that, but their perception stuck in my mind.†   (source)
  • I dive across the room, but with one eye swelled shut I have no depth perception and come up short.†   (source)
  • How much do I trust my tools and my perceptions?†   (source)
  • Each of these events fed the perception that the refugees were bringing violent pasts with them to Clarkston, and caused even empathetic locals to worry for their own safety.†   (source)
  • That mystery, and the mystery of perception—I care about that.†   (source)
  • Social Control, and Biases in Social-Perception Process," Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (1977). vol. 3$, no. 7, pp. 485-494, Page 161.†   (source)
  • This perception translates into Latinos' being eliminated in the early rounds even if they are doing well and not being eliminated in the later rounds, when other contestants want to keep the Latinos around to weaken the field.†   (source)
  • Most changes in perception are gradual: we grow to hate or love an idea, a person, or a place over a period of time.†   (source)
  • Warm—or at least, that was my perception.†   (source)
  • Yet the spread of education and job opportunities for young women led to a rapid recalibration of perceptions concerning gender.†   (source)
  • He would have no short-term memory for several days and no depth perception for six months.†   (source)
  • Witnesses questioned together tended to tell the same story, even if they had different information and perceptions to begin with.†   (source)
  • The actions of the DEVGRU squadrons, targeting the networks of suicide bombers and IEDs in late 2007 and early 2008, nullified the Hollywood perception that tier one teams are reserved for the occasional high-level mission, training for weeks at a site built to replicate their target before embarking upon that mission.†   (source)
  • As his strength returned, his power of perception sharpened.†   (source)
  • But a number of elements came together to create an altogether different set of perceptions for the folks back home.†   (source)
  • Like the glass I've been looking through is coated in the dust of my own perception and I haven't seen what's real.†   (source)
  • "They manipulate one's perceptions of time.†   (source)
  • It was one of those slow-motion perceptions where my eyes were faster than my mind.†   (source)
  • 'I was gifted with eternal life, with heightened perception, and with the need to kill,' I quickly explained, 'because the vampire who made me wanted the house I owned and my money.†   (source)
  • Yossarian's perceptions were soon so fuzzy that he paid no notice to the beige turban the fat one crowding into him kept wearing until late the next morning when the scheming ten-year-old pimp with the Cuban panatella snatched it off in public in a bestial caprice that exposed in the brilliant Sicilian daylight her shocking, misshapen and denudate skull.†   (source)
  • But the cotton my in-laws sent as part of my bride-price changed all my perceptions.†   (source)
  • He's written down a slew of loaded terms, from sensation to perception to interpersonal attraction.†   (source)
  • Had my thing with Wesley totally twisted my perception of sex?†   (source)
  • From that day forth I had a new perception of the Emperor, and of Lulu.†   (source)
  • Adrenaline was still coursing through her in spikes, sharpening her perception, making everything seem clear.†   (source)
  • Freud never really did anything with perception, for example.†   (source)
  • "She said," Seivarden said finally, lifting her face from her hands, "that emotions clouded perception.†   (source)
  • That too I've learned in the cellar, and not by deadening my sense of perception; I'm invisible, not blind.†   (source)
  • "Odd, isn't it, how many different opinions and perceptions you find on one woman.†   (source)
  • She may be a saint but she has no depth perception, and always left one leg shorter than the other.†   (source)
  • I hate to dispel the myth of a great lady's incontestable perceptions, but she's wrong.†   (source)
  • It was both a beginning and an end, though of what and for whom, Annie had no clear perception.†   (source)
  • The perceptions come without warnings or explanations, erratic as lightning.†   (source)
  • But this was a subjective perception of something that he had felt, not a journalist's measured observation of a concrete phenomenon.†   (source)
  • You now, you see the past and the present, like other low creatures: no higher faculties than memory and perception.†   (source)
  • As for Peter, in fairness, OF hadn't had to deal with that many homeschool students at the point of his enrollment, or at least that was our perception, which may have added to the problem.†   (source)
  • I know this for a fact, because when I was growing up, my mother's "limited" English limited my perception of her.†   (source)
  • Most of Trout's novels, after all, dealt with time warps and extrasensory perception and other unexpected things.†   (source)
  • "The warped perception of time is a hallmark of trauma," he said.†   (source)
  • You reject your tool of perception-your mind-then complain that the universe is a mystery.†   (source)
  • Where's your perception now?†   (source)
  • The outcome reflects white perceptions of both race and economic class, but also prejudice based on how people speak.†   (source)
  • Monique stared past the leaves that made up the lean-to, stunned by this change in her perception of reality.†   (source)
  • It has altered my perception of the world; it has even altered my perception of God.†   (source)
  • Waiting for it to say something, to stumble casually on perception, the shape of an unknown thing.†   (source)
  • But you know how perception always trails reality.†   (source)
  • For others' perceptions.†   (source)
  • And yet it seemed everything fell away whenever Captain Ono addressed me, all my carefully built-up perception of things, and in the sorry depletion I could feel the searing, rising surges of what must be pure enmity.†   (source)
  • The sky was sapphire over Munich and pale white over the Alps as masses of distant snow changed the eye's perception of blue.†   (source)
  • The next chapter will analyze the soldiers' perceptions of the slavery issue.†   (source)
  • The boundaries between the mental activities of sense, perception, judgment, desire, choice, memory, and imagination elude the subtlest investigations and are a source of controversy.†   (source)
  • The Baltimore Plot taught Lincoln a powerful message about public perception.†   (source)
  • But his perceptions had undergone a considerable change.†   (source)
  • I realized that my profession, my reputation, my entire perception of myself was nothing more than a facade.†   (source)
  • It didn't take a lot of perception to see that she was uncomfortable around him.†   (source)
  • Think about when you look up and the sky is your background; you lose perception on how far away everything is.†   (source)
  • Perceptions shaped her; proving her only human, a social being.†   (source)
  • Except for this: The war itself has an identity separate from perception.†   (source)
  • But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.†   (source)
  • He had his students read all the books they could read about Zen, science fiction, extrasensory perception, mental telepathy and yoga.†   (source)
  • My brain had momentarily lost its depth perception.†   (source)
  • This perception swept the nation.†   (source)
  • In reality a ritualized mating dance, it allowed one's mind to wander, not alone as in the present case to Leslie's bountiful flesh but to a perception of what was being uttered in the background.†   (source)
  • His perceptions are sharp and delicate and he is a mind-reader.†   (source)
  • It will enhance our own perception of ourselves and our pride in being an American.†   (source)
  • It might have been able to construct an amplifier to extend this area of perception.†   (source)
  • That perception about the past came to me at the end of my third year in England.†   (source)
  • Or some subconscious perception of movement?†   (source)
  • I am sorry that a girl whose perception is clouded by sentiment and whose alertness is blunted by money should be considered by our British comrades a suitable person for Party office.†   (source)
  • Grief had sharpened Yurii Andreievich's senses and quickened his perception a hundredfold.†   (source)
  • And what I of little perception knew Kenny and Selvam knew twofold: but we none of us said anything, for we had woven about us a net of silence in whose meshes were precariously held our fears and our misgivings.†   (source)
  • Esper for Extra Sensory Perception… For Telepaths, Mind Readers, Brain Peepers.†   (source)
  • Perception is transformed, and a new reality is born.†   (source)
  • Most emotions are responses to perception—what you think is true about a given situation.†   (source)
  • The goal is to comprehend everything that exists in an all-embracing perception.†   (source)
  • Is it possible to have a false perception of an illusion?†   (source)
  • Many of my new friends blame racism for this perception of the president.†   (source)
  • It's not extrasensory but good old human perception, which in Danny's case is unusually keen.†   (source)
  • Time and space are first and foremost modes of perception and not attributes or the physical world.†   (source)
  • So the feeling of having an unalterable ego is a false perception.†   (source)
  • Our own perception of time and space can also be merely figments of the mind.†   (source)
  • It was the one clear and distinct perception that the whole of his phi-losophy was built on.†   (source)
  • The atom theory also explains our sense perception, thought Democritus.†   (source)
  • It went back to his perception of what had happened at lunch, but it went further back than that.†   (source)
  • The strength of Roran's perception disturbed Eragon.†   (source)
  • The gray light and the mountains played tricks with my perception.†   (source)
  • The perception of her in Sue's mind sharpened, as if a mental picture was coming into focus.†   (source)
  • Maybe she had come between them in his twisted perception.†   (source)
  • I couldn't get rid of my perception of Sam as the bad guy.†   (source)
  • You do not have a clear perception of what my Calling entails.†   (source)
  • She hasn't changed, only your perception of her.†   (source)
  • His muscles began to relax even as his perception sharpened.†   (source)
  • If she succeeded, she might open up his perception.†   (source)
  • Her depth perception was still slightly skewed.†   (source)
  • Then once more, and this time, allow yourself to relax and broaden your perception.†   (source)
  • I'm doing a whole perception series, images of the body that look like something else.†   (source)
  • I'll show you the rest of the series I'm working on—it's all about perception.†   (source)
  • He'd let his emotions fuddle his logic and his perception before.†   (source)
  • In truth, he'd discovered he admired her for it…not only for her skill, but for her perception.†   (source)
  • I say this: The Babylonian gods were, to ordinary perception, brute objects.†   (source)
  • You are truly a man, and one of wit and perception.†   (source)
  • Powell lifted to his knees and crawled forward, his senses pinpointed on Reich's perception.†   (source)
  • White perception of these rapid changes in black concepts lagged.†   (source)
  • The warm-blooded controversy had raged for fifteen years, before a new perception of dinosaurs as quick-moving, active animals was acecpted-but not without lasting animosities.†   (source)
  • At the far end of the spectrum, we might be reminded of Plato, who in the "Parable of the Cave" section of The Republic (fifth century B.c.) gives us an image of the cave as consciousness and perception.†   (source)
  • Then it came to him: besides the thickness of the light and his enhanced perception of energy fields, nothing was moving.†   (source)
  • In addition, he'd inadvertently rubbed some ice crystals into his eyes, lacerating both corneas "At that point," Beck revealed, "one eye was completely blurred over, I could barely see out of the other, and I'd lost all depth perception.†   (source)
  • I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes—toward an infinity of unsatisfying and disagreeable endings.†   (source)
  • They see us as nothing but a quaint shopping district-an odd perception if you consider the nationalities of men like Einstein, Galileo, and Newton.†   (source)
  • Gumptionology 101…An examination of affective, cognitive and psychomotor blocks in the perception of Quality relationships…3 cr,Vll,MWF.†   (source)
  • There is too much perception, and beyond the plethora of perceptions, a plethora of thoughts about the perceptions and about the fact of having perceptions.†   (source)
  • And I might have gone that way except for two things that happened during fifth grade to change my perception of the whole world.†   (source)
  • The early morning duties, the sluice room, the taking round of tea, the changing of dressings, and the renewed contact with all the irreparable damage did not dim this heightened perception.†   (source)
  • With his usual flare for improvisation, Bloom contributed something else that would forever color America's perception of the Middle East.†   (source)
  • It was thought, perception, sensations that interested her, the conscious mind as a river through time, and how to represent its onward roll, as well as all the tributaries that would swell it, and the obstacles that would divert it.†   (source)
  • To this date, they have been a force for moderation, an ally of the Stables, because it is their perception that such reconstruction and retrieval projects as the Old Earth experiment are necessary to the culmination of the UI.†   (source)
  • An eerie static, insistent but near subliminal, that made me think of wintering souls, some form of dormant life approaching the threshold of perception.†   (source)
  • As far back as the 1970s, the white working class began to turn to Richard Nixon because of a perception that, as one man put it, government was "payin' people who are on welfare today doin' nothin'!†   (source)
  • Jesus looked over at Papa, obviously trying with some difficulty to maintain the perception of a very serious exterior.†   (source)
  • The common perception had always been that Burnham managed the business side of the firm, while Root did all the designs.†   (source)
  • Phaedrus felt that at the moment of pure Quality perception, or not even perception, at the moment of pure Quality, there is no subject and there is no object.†   (source)
  • As usual, Owen Meany had a closer, more intense perception of this passionate event than I had: the Brinker-Smiths' clothes fell on both sides of Owen; Ginger Brinker-Smith's legendary nursing bra was tossed within inches of Owen's face.†   (source)
  • She had always possessed a well-tuned perception for others' inner emotions, and something about the camerlegno had been nagging her all day.†   (source)
  • It wasn't a perception of sight or sound, although it was very near to those things, separated from those senses by the filmiest of perceptual curtains.†   (source)
  • Her face in pouchy sleep might have been a structure designed solely to protect the eyes, those great, large and apprehensive things, prone to color phases and a darting alertness, to a perception of distress in others.†   (source)
  • Then certain, specific things began to go a little wrong with my perception of the warrant officer's face—his ears were as dark and shriveled as prunes, as if a set of headphones had caught fire when he'd been listening to something; and there were perfectly goggle-shaped circles burned into the skin around his eyes, as if he were part raccoon.†   (source)
  • The reason for this is that peace of mind is a prerequisite for a perception of that Quality which is beyond romantic Quality and classic Quality and which unites the two, and which must accompany the work as it proceeds.†   (source)
  • However, we wondered whether it owed a little too much to the techniques of Mrs. Woolf The crystalline present moment is of course a worthy subject in itself especially for poetry; it allows a writer to show his gifts, delve into mysteries of perception, present a stylized version of thought processes, permit the vagaries and unpredictability of the private self to be explored and so on.†   (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)
  • Then you will be able to embrace his love in the midst of your pain, instead of pushing him away with your self-centered perception of how you think the universe should be.†   (source)
  • With a power of perception that far outpaced his era, Burnham recognized that the tiniest details would shape the way people judged the exposition.†   (source)
  • From the way he dressed and the money he gave Myrta, he certainly seemed like a man on the rise, and this perception went a long way to ease the concerns of Myrta's parents.†   (source)
  • Since it's a result of the perception of Quality, a gumption trap, consequently, can be defined as anything that causes one to lose sight of Quality, and thus lose one's enthusiasm for what one is doing.†   (source)
  • Squares, he said, because of their prejudices toward intellectuality usually regard Quality, the preintellectual reality, as unimportant, a mere uneventful transition period between objective reality and subjective perception of it.†   (source)
  • All the city's wealth, however, had failed to shake the widespread perception that Chicago was a secondary city that preferred butchered hogs to Beethoven.†   (source)
  • Thus, if the problem of technological hopelessness is caused by absence of care, both by technologists and antitechnologists; and if care and Quality are external and internal aspects of the same thing, then it follows logically that what really causes technological hopelessness is absence of the perception of Quality in technology by both technologists and antitechnologists.†   (source)
  • Later, no doubt, he wished he had been more candid and had listened more closely to the whisper in his head about the wrongness of that building and the discontinuity between its true appearance and Emeline's perception of it.†   (source)
  • The perception of the ego is in reality a long chain of simple impressions that you have never experienced simultaneously.†   (source)
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