All 17 Uses of
perception
in
The House of Mirth
- This attribute was common to most of Lily's set: they had a force of negation which eliminated everything beyond their own range of perception.†
Chpt 1.4
- Each of them wants a creature of a different race, of Jack's race and mine, with all sorts of intuitions, sensations and perceptions that they don't even guess the existence of.†
Chpt 1.4
- "How you can LAUGH——" her friend rebuked her; and she dropped back to a soberer perception of things with the question: "What was it Bertha really told him?"†
Chpt 1.7
- The perception of this fact helped her to answer gaily: "It's not often I have the chance.†
Chpt 1.7
- His voice had a note of conjugal familiarity: Miss Bart fancied she detected in Rosedale's eye a twinkling perception of the fact, and the idea turned her dislike of him to repugnance.†
Chpt 1.8
- If these people paid court to her it proved that she was still conspicuous in the world to which they aspired; and she was not above a certain enjoyment in dazzling them by her fineness, in developing their puzzled perception of her superiorities.†
Chpt 1.10
- Gerty Farish, seated next to Selden, was lost in that indiscriminate and uncritical enjoyment so irritating to Miss Bart's finer perceptions.†
Chpt 1.12
- He, who had the reputation of weighing all things in the nice balance of fastidious perceptions, had been uncritical and simple in his view of her: his cleverness had never overawed her because she had felt at home in his heart.†
Chpt 1.14
- When, in such matters, are a woman's perceptions at fault?†
Chpt 1.14
- Oh, on certain sides Louisa bristles with perceptions.†
Chpt 2.2 *
- The longing to get back to her former surroundings hardened to a fixed idea; but with the strengthening of her purpose came the inevitable perception that, to attain it, she must exact fresh concessions from her pride.†
Chpt 2.5
- The fibres of sympathy were nearly atrophied in him, but he was suffering so intensely that he had a faint glimpse of what other sufferings might mean—and, as she perceived, an almost simultaneous perception of the way in which her particular misfortunes might serve him.†
Chpt 2.6
- Rosedale, as she listened, seemed to read in her silence not only a gradual acquiescence in his plan, but a dangerously far-reaching perception of the chances it offered; for as she continued to stand before him without speaking, he broke out, with a quick return upon himself: "You see how simple it is, don't you?†
Chpt 2.7
- Light comes in devious ways to the groping consciousness, and it came to her now through the disgusted perception that her would-be accomplice assumed, as a matter of course, the likelihood of her distrusting him and perhaps trying to cheat him of his share of the spoils.†
Chpt 2.7
- She leaned back for a moment, closing her eyes, and as she sat there, her pale lips slightly parted, and the lids dropped above her fagged brilliant gaze, Gerty had a startled perception of the change in her face—of the way in which an ashen daylight seemed suddenly to extinguish its artificial brightness.†
Chpt 2.8
- In the silence Lily had a clear perception of what was passing through his mind.
Chpt 2.11 *perception = sense (understanding)
- The dislike, indeed, still subsisted; but it was penetrated here and there by the perception of mitigating qualities in him: of a certain gross kindliness, a rather helpless fidelity of sentiment, which seemed to be struggling through the hard surface of his material ambitions.†
Chpt 2.11
Definitions:
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(perception as in: perception of external stimuli) something that someone senses; or the act of sensing
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(perception as in: perception of injustice) a belief or opinion formed by viewing things a certain way