Sentence examples for perceived rejection from inspiring English sources

I suppose he was matching perceived rejection with rejection.

This may cause us to become overly sensitive to criticism or comparison, and we may take any perceived rejection as confirmation of our failings.

He was also a phenomenal grudge-keeper, and he could respond to perceived rejection in much the same way the character of Bender did in "The Breakfast Club".

Many older consumers wonder about advertisers' perceived rejection of those beyond the coveted 18- to 49-year-old demographic, Eric Nagourney writes.

Mr. Gabarino said that coupled with problems at home, Nathaniel's suspension and perceived rejection in Mr. Grunow's refusal to let him speak to a girl he had a crush on caused the boy such distress that the victim "may not have mattered".

The soul responds to the hurt one catches more than a glimpse of in Zasu Pitts's face, say, a hurt that tells us that somewhere, somebody didn't care much; and it was this perceived rejection — the first wound — that performers such as Sands and Pitts and Lorre make us feel for them, still, a wound that matters to us all.

But I call them imaginary, because I am too sensitive to (possibly perceived) rejections to even face them.

With a few rejections (or perceived rejections), I have gone so far as to make it seem in my mind like the rejector never even existed.

Just as some people are sensitive to physical pain and respond more strongly to protect themselves, some people may be more sensitive to the social pain caused by real or perceived rejections.

Does your child have a tendency to be a little anxious and to perceive rejection where it doesn't necessarily exist?

It is possible you perceive rejection as a kind of punishment for writing the wrong thing, or maybe writing the right thing in the wrong way.