"notion" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Genius, after all, is supposed to be a discredited Romantic notion, though don't tell that to those who recently thronged the Museum of Modern Art to see the Jackson Pollock show.
- Philosophers of the enlightenment sought to cast aside the discredited notions of hierarchy and theology as justifications for morality.
- Driven by his re-election strategy, the President has revived the discredited notion that dissent equals disloyalty, using as his foil expatriates of the Vietnam War era.
- So the Martian biosphere would not be a case of phylogeny recapitulating ontogeny, a discredited notion in any case, but of history recapitulating evolution.
- A major national figure can hardly maintain mainstream credibility when he is associated with such discredited notions.
- The Consumer Federation of America characterized an earlier version of the legislation as "the dangerous and discredited notion that the way to create jobs is to weaken regulatory protections".
- He revives the discredited notion that Carroll Rosenbloom, the ornery owner of the Rams, who had a penchant for gambling, met foul play when he drowned in Florida 10 years ago.
- Rapid stylistic turnover has replaced artistic progress, now a discredited notion, and if anything is likely to startle, it is probably something that makes no claim whatsoever to novelty.
- It cannot be sold on synergy - the largely discredited notion that mergers open fresh streams of revenue by combining previously unrelated businesses.
- On another, more philosophical level, critics said that endorsing a drug for one race gave official government imprimatur to the discredited notion of race as a biological category.
Click on the heading to expand the collocation groups, collocations and sample sentences.
eTutor English
Historial de búsqueda
Podcasts
Mobile apps and Diki plugins
About Diki
Enviar sugerencia