"notion" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- I believe this is my civic duty, the manifestation of a quixotic notion that a minimal standard of polite behavior can be imposed upon New Yorkers.
- Location Shot It's a rather quixotic notion: an online database of millions of photos indexed by location, submitted mostly by amateur photographers.
- And he pitches his quixotic notion in a book, a Web site (breakingranks.net), in radio interviews and in lectures at universities and business gatherings that could be considered breeding farms for somebodies.
- Mr. Bush seems more likely instead to use American blood and money to double down on his quixotic notion of "victory" to the end.
- I abandoned any quixotic notion of shielding Deedra's true nature from the men and women examining her death.
- The quixotic notion got a hearing before a City Council committee yesterday.
- Mr. Goldblatt has talked instead about his "sometimes perverse, even quixotic notion of giving recognition."
- Koots had a great advantage, and no quixotic notions ever entered his calculations.
- And the Pentagon will have to stop being dogmatic, clinging to the quixotic notion that it only wants to succeed with its streamlined force and its trompe l'oeil coalition.
- For many years, it seemed as if Mr. Snow had derailed a promising career to follow a quixotic notion that a multicultural approach to coverage of international affairs could find an audience and make a profit.
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