Sentence examples for perceived rightly from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

This clarion call of modernity was perceived, quite rightly, as a threat to the cultural dominion of the Anglo-American middle-class.

This was simply a lovely reminder that, for all that Shakespeare may be perceived, often rightly so, as a testament to the power of language, his legacy is and must always be his wider, ludicrously generous embracement of vital, flawed humanity.

Surprised, because golf clubs have long been perceived - rightly or wrongly - as exclusive, stuffy and unwelcoming.