But the president got one big thing right a few days ago, and it is incumbent upon fair-minded people to acknowledge his candor and percipience: the Massachusetts Senate race really was a referendum on the Obama agenda. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It takes great percipience to cut away to the issue of greatest political interest: knaves of fools? foolish knaves? knavish fools? naive-ish noodles? ❋ Unknown (2009)
Perhaps the intelligent ones have better things to do and the less intelligent ones can't think of any ripostes to your searing wit and percipience. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I've returned from another Thanksgiving holiday chock full of pumpkin pie wisdom and turkey neck percipience to deliver unto you a new installment of my behind-the-scenes look at the making of "Hail to the Chimp," a politically-charged next-gen party game coming to the Xbox 360 and PS3 this spring. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Incipient doctor intercepts incipient alcoholic with incipient percipience. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Most of the time, though, I apply the brakes of caution and keep the initial glint of percipience to myself. ❋ White, Stephen, 1951- (1998)
And in any event, since the book is, according to Mr. Craft, "never redeemed by novelties of perspective or musical percipience" it follows that he is arguing with views which are already familiar. ❋ Griffiths, Paul (1978)
Now, as the dawn comes up and in its light I look at things coldly and dispassionately, as I remind myself of my provocative rudeness to you and your civilised forbearance, as I remember your percipience, I know that I was wrong. ❋ Rendell, Ruth, 1930- (1970)
Of considerable significance, both in view of their author's eminence as a philosopher and their intrinsic percipience, are the statements of Alfred North ❋ S. G. F. BRANDON (1968)
Her percipience is frightening and her humour prodigious. ❋ Mitchell, Gladys, 1901- (1933)
Your sense of humour, that delicate percipience of proportion, that subrident check on impulse, that touch of the divine fellowship with human frailty, is a thing of mellower growth. ❋ Unknown (1914)
We consider indeed conditions for percipience, but only so far as those conditions are among the disclosures of perception. ❋ Alfred North Whitehead (1904)
This biological character is apparently a further condition for the peculiar connexion of a percipient event with the percipience of mind; but it has nothing to do with the relation of the percipient event to the duration which is the present whole of nature posited as the disclosure of the percipience. ❋ Alfred North Whitehead (1904)
As the character of the percipient event changes with the passage of nature -- or, in other words, as the percipient mind in its passage correlates itself with the passage of the percipient event into another percipient event -- the time-system correlated with the percipience of that mind may change. ❋ Alfred North Whitehead (1904)
When the bulk of the events perceived are cogredient in a duration other than that of the percipient event, the percipience may include a double consciousness of cogredience, namely the consciousness of the whole within which the observer in the train is ❋ Alfred North Whitehead (1904)
Other creatures, he notes, share in his sensations; but, so far as he can discover, not in his percipience ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
She lay in a state of percipience without volition, and the rustle of the straw and the cutting of the ears by the others had the weight of bodily touches. ❋ Unknown (1891)
Und dere are fish in der upper tributaries of der Amazon which haf four eyes, der two upper of which are searchlights, der two lower of which are organs of percipience or vision. ❋ Morgan Robertson (1888)
