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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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perceived = seen in a certain way so as to form a belief or opinion
- 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. (source)
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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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perceived = saw (in a certain way) so as to form a belief
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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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perceived = viewed in a certain way so as to form a belief or opinion
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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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perceived = seen in a certain way so as to form a belief or opinion
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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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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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perceived = seen in a certain way so as to form a belief or opinion
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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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perceived = viewed (in a certain way)
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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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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
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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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perceived = viewed (in a certain way)
- 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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perceive = view in a certain way so as to form a belief or opinion
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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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perceived = understood (seen in a certain way)
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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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perceived = saw (in a certain way) or believed
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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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perceive = view in a certain way so as to form a belief or opinion
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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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perceiving = viewing in a certain way so as to form a belief or opinion
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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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perceive = view in a certain way so as to form a belief or opinion
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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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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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perceived = became aware of
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Medea had said she did not know if those slaves in her father's halls could perceive what happened to them.
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perceive = have awareness of (understand)
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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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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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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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perceive = see
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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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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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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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As he perceived her, she had immediately begun to stare up through the high tree branches at the sky.
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perceived = saw
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I perceived an agitation of the window blind,
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perceived = saw (became aware of)
- 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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When Elizabeth's head rose through the trap she perceived that the upper door was open,
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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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perceive = see
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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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perceive = become aware of
- I could but partially perceive his features (source)
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They approached us with incredible swiftness, and were within gun-shot before they perceived us.
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perceived = became aware of
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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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perceived = saw (became aware of)
- 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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You should be able to perceive the name without being told.
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perceive = become aware of
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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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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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perceive = become aware of
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The advanced algebra was still indecipherable—it came from a world beyond my ability to perceive—but the trigonometry had become intelligible, messages written in a language I could understand, from a world of logic and order that only existed in black ink and on white paper.
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perceive = see (understand)
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When I was observing you, before the selection, I perceived that you probably had the capacity, and what you describe confirms that.
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perceived = became aware
- He perceived that it came from the sky. (source)
- It was colder, also, Jonas perceived. (source)
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As they reached the picnic ground she perceived that it was dark,
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perceived = saw
- Within the wall thus exposed by the displacing of the bones, we perceived a still interior recess, (source)
- As he plunged into the side aisles, he perceived a reddish light behind a cluster of pillars. (source)
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On perceiving me, the stranger addressed me in English, although with a foreign accent.
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While this strange dialogue continued, I perceived the crowd rapidly increase.
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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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perceiving = seeing; or becoming aware of
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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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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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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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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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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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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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- 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)
- 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)
- 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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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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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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perceive = see (am aware of)
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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
- August 19, 17— Yesterday the stranger said to me, "You may easily perceive, Captain Walton, that I have suffered great and unparalleled misfortunes." (source)
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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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- 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. (source)
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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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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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perceiving = seeing
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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.
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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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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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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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"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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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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I perceived, as the shape came nearer (sight tremendous and abhorred!) that it was the wretch whom I had created.
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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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perceiving = being aware of
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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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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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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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"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 old man, whom I soon perceived to be blind, employed his leisure hours on his instrument or in contemplation.
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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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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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It had a wild and rocky appearance, but as I approached nearer I easily perceived the traces of cultivation.
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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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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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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.
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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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...she saw his eye glancing for a moment at her necklace, with a smile--she thought there was a smile--which made her blush and feel wretched. And though there was no second glance to disturb her, though his object seemed then to be only quietly agreeable, she could not get the better of her embarrassment, heightened as it was by the idea of his perceiving it, and had no composure till he turned away to some one else.
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It was about seven in the morning, and I longed to obtain food and shelter; at length I perceived a small hut, on a rising ground, which had doubtless been built for the convenience of some shepherd.
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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. (source)
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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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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…
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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. (source)
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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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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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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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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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- 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)
- At that moment I perceived an orange mass.† (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)
- 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)
- "'A lone voice of truth… perceived as unbalanced, yet never wavered in his story… forced to bear ridicule and slander… " H mmm,' she said, frowning, 'I notice they don't mention the fact that it was them doing all the ridiculing and slandering in the Prophet…'† (source)
- Maybe Eric perceives Four as a potential threat to his position.† (source)
- For not only is it capable of transmitting thought, but also — to a certain extent — of perceiving thought.† (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)
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- The perceived demand for "consumer biologicals" in the 1990s was high.† (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)
- 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)
- And he hadn't perceived them because he had become accustomed to them.† (source)
- Perhaps sensing that this characterization of how I got here might be perceived as insensitive, he chuckles.† (source)
- Mama Elena perceived this desire as a constant presence between them, in every little conversation, in every word, in every glance.† (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)
- 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)
- It is easier to trick others into perceiving you as beautiful if you can convince yourself you are beautiful.† (source)
- And though that would be perceived as Kevin's doing, I could be made to suffer for it.† (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….† (source)
- To perceive that blowing up the drum will be the only way to achieve my mission.† (source)
- It could be perceived as weakness.† (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)
- Twelve of the Riders joined Galbatorix out of desire for power and revenge against perceived wrongs.† (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)
- 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)
- They perceive things far better than we could ever imagine.† (source)
- His value, once perceived, was indestructible.† (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)
- The fair's greatest impact lay in how it changed the way Americans perceived their cities and their architects.† (source)
- True, but it's close, and that's how the eye will initially perceive it.† (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)
- Do you not understand how our audacity will be perceived?† (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)
- Y.T. does not perceive any waiting tune, no zipping up of the fly or washing of the hands.† (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)
- It meant I would be accused, abused, pushed around, and ordered to do something to make up for some perceived wrong.† (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)
- 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)
- For of a truth I perceive that this is no ordinary rain that is falling upon our kingdom.† (source)
- No telling what mortals will perceive.† (source)
- Only as the bus pulled up did I glance at Miss Kenton and perceived that her eyes had filled with tears.† (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)
- Mack, there is far more going on here than you have the ability to perceive.† (source)
- Never fool yourself into perceiving things that don't exist.† (source)
- It was the smell of human fermentation, which he had perceived in his oldest lovers and they had detected in him.† (source)
- She has a natural ability—an intuitive sense—that enables her to perceive what should be done.† (source)
- The way you perceive us, you might not be able to see her asBella anymore.† (source)
- She perceives well but there was nothing unnatural about it.† (source)
- When he was alone, he turned destructive, gouging away at whatever stood between him and perceived safety.† (source)
- We can only say we perceive it as being so.† (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)
- "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)
- 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)
- In San Francisco, for the first time, I perceived myself as part of something.† (source)
- The human eye perceives motion much quicker than shapes and figures.† (source)
- At the time, I didn't realize how selfish my actions were or how Ruth might have perceived them.† (source)
- Our voice doesn't reach her, needless to say, but Eri perceives the danger on her own.† (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)
- 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)
- He harped continuously upon his perceived reason for all the troubles that had ever beset him: "I was suspended because I am Iranian.† (source)
- Why is it so important that you're perceived as a bad boy, huh?† (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)
- I was candid about how both the PAC and the ANC were perceived in the rest of Africa.† (source)
- If there are any smells in the air, you perceive them.† (source)
- When that control was violated—or perceived to have been violated—Luma's reflex, it seemed, was to banish the violator.† (source)
- He perceived it uneasily.† (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)
- 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)
- Over the years, a series of "audit studies" have tried to measure how people perceive different names.† (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)
- "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)
- Now here, in my third prison, I perceived an odd truth that held for each: no one ran them.† (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)
- Of course, when Ethan stopped by that perceived connection severed immediately.† (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)
- The second could not stop the act, could not manage it and finally did not know how to perceive it.† (source)
- That was perceived as scandalously intrusive.† (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)
- You can't perceive it, but the earth responds by pushing you away from it.† (source)
- I'd get to see what their lives were like and how they were perceived and treated.† (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)
- He spent most of those ten minutes downplaying the perceived heroics of the flagraising.† (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)
- Whence it came we did not at first perceive.† (source)
- The audience could not perceive it, I could.† (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)
- Nately was appalled and bewildered by the abominable old man's inability to perceive the enormity of his offence.† (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)
- I thought they had an odd transcendental way of perceiving things which was closed to me.† (source)
- He perceived a danger far greater than anything I could imagine.† (source)
- Doubtless, most sagacious of cats,' says the other, 'you have perceived my meaning.† (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)
- They monitor the soldiers' behavior for perceived human rights abuses and advocate for Palestinians denied passage.† (source)
- The scientists perceive a possibility!† (source)
- In truth, the situation was worse than they realized, and no one perceived this as clearly as Washington.† (source)
- He doesn't perceive these as crimes but as moments of personal power, personal statement.† (source)
- Then finally we perceived a possible connection, which you just confirmed.† (source)
- But I, as you yourself so astutely perceived, do have a choice.† (source)
- Lourdes perceives the faint scent of her father's cigar.† (source)
- When they returned his attention, they had no fear of what they perceived in him.† (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)
- In the course of his inspection he perceived me again.† (source)
- The wisest among us, Elias Bram, perceived that these events were not random follies of man.† (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)
- 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)
- JFK was perceived to be a dedicated family man.† (source)
- They make their emotions their tool for perceiving reality.† (source)
- It will be perceived as being a worse teacher of technical subjects like physics.† (source)
- They instantly perceived the vulnerability of our position and its maddening elements of uncertainty.† (source)
- The abolitionists were still widely perceived as religious extremists by most people in the country.† (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)
- The guard came out because he was curious about what he had already perceived to have been an irregularity.† (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)
- I do not perceive the wizard as an exceptional strategist.† (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)
- Almost immediately following the rape, I started overreacting to anyone who I perceived was trying to bully me.† (source)
- The children all stared at the newcomers with what Lou perceived as unfriendly eyes.† (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)
- "And I don't perceive them ever being a threat," Tyler said.† (source)
- The point is that war is war no matter how it's perceived.† (source)
- He battered at the lack of graciousness and courtesy that he perceived in the black doctor.† (source)
- At first its movement was so slow that it could hardly be perceived, but second by second it was gaining speed.† (source)
- Aren't you able to perceive the simple truth?† (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)
- And then it began again, something like music, yet not, some development of a proposition that could not be verbalized, for its substance was of a stuff that no man possessed or perceived, lying outside the range of human sensory equipment.† (source)
- I began to perceive that Uncle Hal's stories always portrayed him as the soul of manly chivalry.† (source)
- You may, like a newborn child, perceive only light and movement.† (source)
- We have both heard the exalted one, we have both perceived the teachings.† (source)
- She could perceive her mother's eye on her.† (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- I must assume it moves in a dimension I cannot yet perceive.† (source)
- In fact, he had not even perceived it as part of Bernini's fountain.† (source)
- I want anything that breaks the monotony, subverts the perceived respectable order of things.† (source)
- What is perceived as being known is only a small part of what may be stored in this dark repository.† (source)
- You'll forgive me for saying so, my dear, but I perceive very little aura around you.† (source)
- The chariot is a manifestation of the sun's power, the way mortals perceive it Make sense?† (source)
- He puffed up a hit at my perceived compliment, then looked more closely at me.† (source)
- Only Michael knew that there was a big gap between where he was and where he was perceived to be.† (source)
- It didn't take a genius to realize what had happened, or how it would be perceived.† (source)
- It is an infringement even if the intent may be perceived as benign and socially valid.† (source)
- As his vision blurred, he perceived a muted shape overhead that immediately woke him.† (source)
- No, why don't you use Hume's method and analyze what you perceive as your 'ego.'† (source)
- But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a different story.† (source)
- Let me remind you that there was an era when even the brightest minds perceived the earth as flat.† (source)
- Christianity is a divine mystery that we can only perceive through faith.† (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)
- But we do not perceive 'material' or 'matter.'† (source)
- Hume showed that we can neither perceive nor prove natural laws.† (source)
- To assume that what we perceive has its own underlying 'substance' is jumping to conclusions.† (source)
- Before we perceive anything, the mind is a 'tabula rasa'—or an empty slate.† (source)
- Our own lives influence the way we perceive things in the room.† (source)
- For we cannot perceive the matter itself that our reality is made of, that much we have learned.† (source)
- Now he asked whether the world really is the way we perceive it.† (source)
- Empedocles also raised the question of what happens when we perceive something.† (source)
- We do not perceive things as tangible objects.† (source)
- That's because the glasses limit the way you perceive reality.† (source)
- Can you perceive all of nature at one time—the whole universe, in fact— at a single glance?† (source)
- He believed we cannot know any more of the world than we can perceive through the senses?† (source)
- Berkeley claimed that worldly things are indeed as we perceive them, but they are not 'things.'† (source)
- This is also true of the way we perceive the sexes.† (source)
- But outer reality also has certain characteristics that we can perceive with our reason.† (source)
- He can let us 'perceive' all kinds of things; nothing would surprise me.† (source)
- We could perhaps saythat Heraclitus had more faith in what he could perceive than Parmenides did.† (source)
- We are partly instrumental in deciding what we perceive by selecting what is significant for us.† (source)
- He said the only things that exist are those we perceive.† (source)
- The child perceives the world as it is, without putting more into things than he experiences.† (source)
- He only accepted what he had perceived through his senses.† (source)
- /"Sartre tried to prove that consciousness in itself is nothing until it has perceived something.† (source)
- Whatever we see will first and foremost be perceived as phenomena in time and space.† (source)
- He perceived with his senses that things changed.† (source)
- But notice the intuitive certainty with which he suddenly perceives himself as a thinking being.† (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)
- "Some people's anger makes them want to kill everyone they perceive as an enemy.† (source)
- "And how did you perceive her social handicap?" he asked.† (source)
- The Volturi come to erase what they perceive as the competition.† (source)
- Her mouth was grim, and Max perceived a growing sorrow in her eyes.† (source)
- Nor can I perceive that place from which it came.† (source)
- "This you perceive, looks to offensive operations," he wrote.† (source)
- I sure perceived the threat of that gun.† (source)
- And the room might not even exist as she perceived it.† (source)
- He perceived the basic soundness of Webb's approach and found the words.† (source)
- But how is this perceived state brought about?† (source)
- Somehow infect me with the weakness I perceived in her?† (source)
- Where you perceive a threat, we recognize an opportunity.† (source)
- Maybe their mortal senses perceived him as a cute child or a funny pet dog.† (source)
- In which case I perceive it as neurotic behaviour.† (source)
- COLONEL GERINELDO MÃRQUEZ was the first to perceive the emptiness of the war.† (source)
- I'm beginning to think that you perceive me as spoiled.† (source)
- And an executive council might decrease the executive's perceived responsibility.† (source)
- If that which you claim to perceive does not exist, what you possess is not consciousness.† (source)
- You hold out your hand to me, and I perceive only a finger of the claw of Mordor.† (source)
- Max perceived the maiden with such clarity that she might have been an arm's length away.† (source)
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