While lacking Nigel Farage's flamboyance, he comes with an easy-going self-assurance and fondness for the metaphor of a small businessman taking on a perceived political elite.
"He does not want to exit on a perceived failure.
Like the racist and the sexist, the ageist rejects an Other based on a perceived difference.
Back in 2004, BernieSanders.com was less complimentary, focusing on a perceived hostility to small businesses.
But both suppliers and corporations tend to try and seize on a perceived weakness, he said.
The spitefulness girls generate can turn on a perceived loser or bring down anyone who gets above herself.
This ignores the underlying, deeply entrenched social issues of drug use, instead focusing on a perceived quick fix.
Meyer also acts on a perceived challenge from Le Corbusier, champion of urban renewal: to inhabit the picturesque slums whose razing both historians and tourists sentimentally deplore.
Tsarnaeva, of North Bergen, New Jersey, is facing separate charges in New York, where she is accused of threatening to "put a bomb" on a perceived romantic rival.
West, Dan Brown, Read and now Harris all have plot lines that turn on a perceived Islamist terrorist threat to the office of the papacy.
To protect a diplomatic initiative, the White House tries to slow a congressional move toward sanctions on a perceived bad actor.
