What they had once seen as "harmless creatures", they now perceived as "dangerous animals".
Fuller, like Carter, had described the brutal abuses he endured in Jamaica on the grounds of his perceived sexuality, even testifying that he had once been shot by an "anti-gay mob" while he was out partying with his boyfriend.
Business constituencies in America and elsewhere perceived exponential growth opportunities in a place that Winston Churchill had once dismissed as a land of fakirs.
But artists, ever-able to find beauty in the banal (as well as the irritating and ugly), have turned what we once perceived as dysfunction into art with a capital "A".
Indeed, despite the threat the networks once perceived, CNN has struggled to meet the ultimate test of the marketplace: Very few people are watching.
From Columbine to Parkland to Sandy Hook to Pulse and more, the names of these locations, which were once perceived safe havens, are now marked by sorrow, anger and abiding frustration.
In the buildup to Rio, the defending champions had denied talk that a team once perceived as being invincible were now eminently beatable.
But the limits to his game once perceived by many have all been disproved, and the ceiling for his greatness is unknown.
Once perceived as curios and presumed to have descended from the riot-grrrl movement female-fronted rock acts now domovement female-frontedline) rock scenes.
Illegal downloading, once perceived as a crippling force, has proved to no longer be a threat to record labels and their bottom lines.
Once perceived as the angriest woman on the comedy circuit, Brand, it has been suggested, has in recent years lost her sharper edges, become less political, more establishment.
