Sentence examples for perceived something from inspiring English sources

So here were two old boys, denizens of Paris, once great friends, who perceived something that no one else had -- and in such strikingly similar ways.

He perceived something about me that I wasn't even admitting to myself: I didn't really believe that I belonged out there with the best players in the world.

Mr. Warren claimed at trial that he had fired in self-defense, and that he had perceived something in Mr. Glover's hand.

" But his characters, I insisted, suggest that we are all capable of seeing beyond the veil, though it's impossible to tell if they are simply mad, or if they have indeed perceived something outside normal perception.

Last week, as I walked backwards and forwards before the paintings in the Rue des Grenelles, I perceived something I'd not understood before, and I felt a sudden gratitude to a painter whose work I'd questioned for such a long while.

In that case, when reflecting back on having perceived something clearly and distinctly, it would not seem so impressive, after all — it "would not be enough to make me certain of the truth of the matter" (ibid).

That is, when someone perceives something intentionally, s/he is labelled an agentive Perceiver, as in he or Pat in (17) above; when, however, someone perceives something instinctively, s/he is otherwise annotated as a non-agentive Perceiver, as in (21).

A witness sitting there can perceive something.

Unless you perceive something as a problem you're not going to fix it".

Berkeley called attention to the situation that exists when a person perceives something or imagines it.

"If someone perceives something as racist then I am responsible for not saying that thing".