Sentence examples for a dominant interpretation from inspiring English sources

Right now, Ms. Buck-Morss suggests, there is a "hegemonic discourse" -- a dominant interpretation -- that affirms the moral superiority of the West after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall: totalitarianism was evil and democracy virtuous, and virtue emerged victorious.

No matter if the scenery toppled, if the pioneers tripped in their boots, if the dogs barked and bayed; the audience had been treated to a concise restatement of what was then a dominant interpretation of the rise of American democracy — that it was fuelled by the settling of the frontier and that it chiefly involved the hardscrabble striving of poor white men.

"The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by 'the disenchantment of the world.'" Max Weber's statement remains a dominant interpretation of the modern condition: the increasing capabilities of knowledge and science have banished mysteries, leaving a world that can be mastered technically and intellectually.

It's not every day, or even every few decades, that a scientist tears up the dominant interpretation of Darwin's theory of evolution, but two years ago that's what the eminent biologist Edward Wilson and two of his Harvard colleagues did.

I do hate the dominant interpretation of "object-oriented programming" with a passion, because it objectively sucks.

The dominant interpretation of his work is that he was a capable, extremely efficient journeyman whose greatest triumphs were the result of Warner Brothers' collaborative studio system, more the product of the contributions of the studio's gifted contract cinematographers, writers, actors, designers, and composers than of Curtiz's vision or control.

Turner's "frontier thesis" rose to become the dominant interpretation of American history for the next half-century and longer.

The dominant interpretation has been weighted in favour of malevolence and that which forbodes evil, misfortune, and mischief.

Instead, the dominant interpretation of the future resembled the Whig narrative, or, more colloquially, the "myth of progress": Things always get better.

The "dominant interpretation" of the Ferguson Effect, he wrote, is that criticism of the police after the killings of unarmed black citizens causes the police "to disengage from vigorous enforcement actions".

Although not the dominant interpretation of the Upanishads, multiple intimations of panentheism are present in the Upanishads (Whittemore 1988, 33, 41 44).