Sentence examples for perceive rightly from inspiring English sources

Some years there are more blockbusters, some years less, and there is a cliched tendency of even otherwise smart industry folks like Spielberg and Lucas to look at what they perceive (rightly or wrongly) to be a trend in the morning and proclaim it as a trend that will last through the next morning and the next, and make large predictions based on it.

If you react more to a relevant question than to control questions, the polygrapher will perceive (rightly or wrongly) that you are lying in response to something relevant and you will likely fail the polygraph.

In decades past, luxury compacts were often perceived — rightly, in many cases — as a bait-and-switch.

America was by then perceived — rightly — as the leader of what we like to call "the free world".

They were genuine attempts to fit my emerging sensibility into what I perceived, rightly or wrongly, to be the governing aesthetic philosophy of the time.

Yet it was originally perceived, rightly, as a work in need of camouflage, a skeleton that requires savvy stagecraft to give it flesh.

"Also, I think it vital in these times, when America is perceived, rightly or wrongly, as a closed, frightened society, to keep an open door.

Most of the locals on the Protestant/loyalist side of the loyalist were full of praise for the UVF's actions, which they perceived – rightly or wrongly – as being the correct response to alleged republican attacks from the Short Strand.

But despite the "small steps" Ms. Nurul Izzah has taken to distance herself from her father, Professor Welsh said she was still "perceived rightly or wrongly as her father's daughter" and must blaze her own path.

She has perceived rightly that without the perspective of distance, time and symbolism, fairy tales are often case studies of child abuse, a dominant theme in her re-creations.

Highwaymen, pirates and even the Great Train Robbers all targeted what was perceived – rightly or wrongly – as faceless or wealthy authorities, such as Spanish galleons with their haul of other people's gold and the Post Office train carrying large sums of money that were insured.