"Franklin Avenue is the face of the village and as people drove by and saw these empty stores the perception was that all of Garden City was undergoing some sort of economic decline," Mr. Matthews said.
They chose option two, and in a way, I think they revealed one of this White House's weirder tendencies: they seem to hate the empty game of perception so much that they won't play it.
Experimentally, the perception of empty duration is found to vary with the sense that marks the limits.
'I never think about my legacy' No living director has done more, both through his work and through his 1968 book The Empty Space, to change our perception of theatre than Peter Brook: to reinforce the centrality of the shared experience, to clear the stage of clutter and to realise the need for ecstasy.
Writing in 1973, Hillary Rodham described the rule as "a rationalization by decision-makers justifying their judgments about a child's future, like an empty vessel into which adult perceptions and prejudices are poured".
"All the tributaries empty into the vast sea of perception.
The overwhelming walls of grey glass that have gone up over the building's empty shell are no help to the perception that the renovation may be another waste of money for the impoverished country.
Time seems to flow in discrete units — it seems somehow independent and self-contained — not because we perceive units of empty time but because each of our acts of perception (or, more likely, our memories of those perceptions) is discrete.
Anecdotes masquerade as data: the evidence against the Marxist thesis that work is alienating under capitalism is the author's perception that Chicago garbagemen seem to enjoy emptying trash bins.
The open space, and the intangible event — what Mr. Monastyrski called an "empty action" — were designed to create an "empty zone" where structured perception was obliterated, opening a momentary space for individual dreams.
