Sentence examples for perceived defect from inspiring English sources

These brain changes may help explain how people can become overly focused on a perceived defect of their face, hair, skin or facial or body shape that others may not notice — indeed, that may not even exist.

Misperceptions of one's appearance can also be manifested as body dysmorphic disorder, in which an individual magnifies the negative aspects of a perceived flaw to such a degree that the person shuns social settings or embarks compulsively upon a series of appearance-augmenting procedures, such as dermatological treatments and plastic surgery, in an attempt to remove the perceived defect.

The DSM IV definition also requires that the preoccupation with the perceived defect must not be better explained by another psychiatric illness like anorexia or bulimia nervosa.

In addition to the concerns about appearance, BDD is marked by time-consuming repetitive compulsive behaviors (mirror checking, excessive grooming behaviours, measuring or comparing the perceived defect), and avoidance (of social situations, mirrors, posing for photographs, bright lights) [ 4, 5].

Term limits are said to be an answer to perceived defects in our political system.

It's a virtue of the book that it ranges across the socioeconomic scale, and Solomon finds that those parents with high socioeconomic status "tend towards perfectionism, and have a harder time living with perceived defects" in their children than those struggling at the lower end.

Classical computationalists can answer this worry by citing perceived defects of connectionist learning algorithms (e.g., the heavy reliance of backpropagation upon supervised training).

With remarkable alacrity and considerable ingenuity, he took it upon himself to remedy these perceived defects in Kant's own presentation and to construct his own, allegedly more systematic, well-grounded, and "universally acceptable" version of the new Critical philosophy.

Hyper-vigilant to the smallest deviation from the perceived ideal, one is preoccupied with appearance and perceived defects.

In 1787, in an effort to remedy the perceived defects of the Articles of Confederation, delegates met at the Philadelphia Convention and drafted the United States Constitution, which was then sent to the states for ratification or rejection.

After the British refused to heed the PUTERA-AMCJA coalition, it pulled out of talks with the British, later launching a major hartal (general strike) to protest perceived defects in the new polity.