Sentence examples for a lay notion from inspiring English sources

Their "depression" is a lay notion that, for the majority of the study participants, is a normal response to adversity that does not require psychotherapeutic or psychopharmacologic treatment.

It is worth remarking that the first example shows how even a child can create ciphers, at a cost of making as many flips of a fair coin as he has bits of information to conceal, that cannot be "broken" by even national cryptologic services with arbitrary computing power disabusing the lay notion that the unachieved goal of cryptography is to devise a cipher that cannot be broken.

Fatigue is an essentially subjective phenomenon; clinically, it remains undefined due to the overlap between the lay notion of tiredness and the clinically relevant symptom of fatigue [ 3].

Behind the jest lay a serious notion: that Mr Greenspan's reputation is so golden, and his chairmanship of the Fed so perfect, that he should be kept on for as long as possible.

We should also all be able to agree that attempting to murder people for the crime of visiting a museum lies outside any notion of morality.

His anger when he read about a survey finding that the brain development of blacks had not matched that of whites spurred his desire to advance his education and put a lie to such notions.

Under each outwardly celebratory page of Banham's book lies the notion of change as Los Angeles' only constant: no matter how excitingly modern the car and the freeway, their day will come to an end; no matter how comfortably idyllic the detached house, it too must fall out of favour, or into impracticality, sooner or later.

At the heart of Śaṃkara's teaching lies the notion that the true knowledge of the ātman is knowledge that is devoid of any of the above-mentioned qualities.

"This complements the other Frieze Projects, as they all have a very performative feel about them and a focus which lies beyond the notion of an 'object' or a 'product,"' Ms. Lees said.

A similar notion lies at the heart of Tony Hiss's interesting and ambitious but flawed meditation, "In Motion: The Experience of Travel".

They wanted to play on and lay bare the notion of a world's fair pavilion by creating an ethereal ghost of one in which there is nothing to see.