But he accepted it was not only substance that mattered but perception, which is why he resigned.
There is a perception, which is part of Mr. Modi's allure, that he is a dangerous man.
"Somehow there was the perception, which is completely off the wall, that I had this gilded, adulterous life moving from one affair or soiree to another.
"They," like the president, went unspoken, because they, like the president, are omnipresent and, at least in the public perception, which is what counts, all powerful.
"All of my plays are about my attempt to stage my particular rhythm of perception, which is to say, admittedly, the plays are about me," he has written.
I think this is partly caused by the public perception which is quoted in the article and the image marriage portrays to society.
That perception, which is widespread among American allies as well as critics, has grown in recent months as the Bush administration has rejected the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty with Russia and the Kyoto accord on global warming.
To this end, it is remarkable that Skins was imported over from England at all: class issues inform a lot of the characters' background and perception, which is difficult to translate for American audiences.
(It would create yet another public perception problem to admit we classify information because of public perception, which is one of the reasons the fiction is maintained that information is classified because it is secret).
At It's about the pirate-themed freshmen pasta dinner, I learned that eye patches impair depth perception — which is why I managed to place where I managed to drop a whole scoop of lasagna on an unsuspecting parent's shoe.
To a particular state of sympathetically attuned consciousness, Ms. Piper's project might seem an inspirational, utopian work of participatory democracy; to my perception, which is not artificially enhanced, it has the high-minded odor of mandarin pseudo-populism.
