Sentence examples for a notion from from inspiring English sources

It's a classic underdog story: Working in a disused tunnel with a couple of lasers and a few mirrors, a plucky band of physicists dreamed up a way to test one of the wildest ideas in theoretical physics—a notion from the nearly inscrutable realm of "string theory" that our universe may be like an enormous hologram.

He spoke approvingly of a notion from a store owner who wanted to make anyone who does not have at least three years of business background ineligible to lead the country.

The family is securely "lower-upper-middle class," to borrow a notion from George Orwell; but Brad has grown miserable about his life, and, especially, about his place in the world.

This was a notion from which some of Britpop's participants, most notably Blur themselves, would subsequently recoil, making arguably the best music of their career in the process, but it was advice that subsequent generations of British guitar bands very much took to heart.

Newman makes this sort of point when he distinguishes a "notion" from a "real image" of God (1979, p. 108).

Finally, borrowing a notion from Giles of Rome, he argues that existence falls under the category of substance, for there are substantial relations; for instance, the relation between matter and form falls under substance.

Last February, the idea that it's advantageous for human females to live long after menopause so they can help feed their grandchildren--a notion taken from studies of African hunter-gatherers--captured public attention.

It really is a way an abstract notion from an artist has influenced the way that technology will be developed in the future.

Maybe that's a romantic notion, from a bygone era.

In order to understand how we might get there from here, we need to invoke a notion drawn from the study of dynamic systems.

A theme in many Hong Kong historical movies is a desire for revenge, a universal sentiment, while Japanese period pieces often turn on the two-way pull of duty and inclination, a notion remote from most modern audiences.