But to truly challenge the law of the time, Hirschfeld needed to prove that homosexuality was a biological phenomenon rather than a depraved state of mind, as it was perceived at the time.
But the performance also sounded a warning shot against what Gardiner perceived at the time as the dangerous complacency of contemporary English choral singing, an approach to music-making that prioritised sonic beauty and technical perfection over meaning, directness, and intensity.
(Of her celebrity following her relationship to John Lennon, Ono is nonchalant: "Well, you know, in certain circles I was very very famous already. And so whatever circle I was in and how I was perceived at the time, I used that to bring my communication").
"Shebeens" were illegal bars predominantly frequented by Afro-Caribbean people, transvestites, sex workers and queers; those perceived, at the time, to be at the bottom rung of society.
I initially gave up eating meat in late adolescence because of my discomfort with death and what I perceived at the time to be unnecessary violence.
Luciano had previously been arrested following the stabbing of a teenager and wore clothing that was perceived at the time to be counter-cultural, but there was more to him than his clothes, his past, or his environment.
The exception is that in evaluating careers some point to the number of All-Star Games in which a particular player has appeared as a loose heuristic for how that player was perceived at the time he was playing.
Davenport's cartoons have had a lasting impact on the public image of Mark Hanna, both on how he was perceived at the time and on how he is remembered today.
Uhls started working on an early draft of the adapted screenplay, which excluded a voice-over because the industry perceived at the time that the technique was "hackneyed and trite".
Given that chest pain experience is greatly modulated by affective states [ 5], chest pain intensity was discussed as an equivalent of emotional distress perceived at the time of MI [ 3].
