Sentence examples for lively perceptions from inspiring English sources

Passions are impressions – strong and lively perceptions with a certain "feel" and a direction, or impulse.

According to Hume's theory of the mind, the passions (what we today would call emotions, feelings, and desires) are impressions rather than ideas (original, vivid and lively perceptions that are not copied from other perceptions).

As a boy with little inclination to scholarship but gifted with a lively perception of the world around him, he enjoyed mimicking and drawing characters, interests that were encouraged by visits to a local painter's workshop.

There should have been more solicitude for the peace of Europe, and a livelier perception of the fact that neighbourly conduct and good feeling cannot be inculcated by military measures.

Kim and Sánchez bring to their lively pages the heightened perceptions of the recently arrived.

Emily Dickinson herself gains from this new perception in Wineapple's lively, thoughtful and admirable book.

Some perceptions are less forceful and lively than some memories, as when lost in reminiscence, and some memories are less forceful and lively than imaginings, as when lost in reverie.

The game is a lively introduction to political ecology and the perception of activism.

And the fresh, lively look of the exhibition debunks the perception that architecture exhibitions are too stuffy and overly academic.

Reviewers praised Dr. Boorstin for a lively, inventive style, unconventional and bold approaches, intriguing perceptions and for placing familiar information in fresh contexts to generate unexpected conclusions.

Partisan Americans — and there are many of them — are deprived of what John Stuart Mill called "the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error".