- and then pick apart the comfortable assumptions that carry most of us through life.

How much of it was simply a comfortable assumption he was intended to make?

To make this trip, some comfortable assumptions must be abandoned - history as positive numbers, for example, and north as up.

He said there was a comfortable assumption that the present situation could not get much worse, but this, unfortunately, could be mistaken.

For scholars like these, obscure prose serves more to protect their own comfortable assumptions from challenge than as a tool of social change.

The last phrase jerked him out from his comfortable assumptions.

I then come back into the world of California and politics, with critical distance from some of my more comfortable assumptions.

Its shocking resurrection challenges the community's comfortable assumptions about faith as well as class distinctions.

Granted, serious fiction is most valuable when it challenges comfortable assumptions.

Options are what are available to anyone who keeps an open mind and is willing to question the comfortable assumptions of established thinking.