Sentence examples for ancient notion from inspiring English sources

This is an ancient notion.

The desalting of seawater is an ancient notion.

Alok Jha's three-part series begins with the ancient notion that the weather was supernaturally ordained.

The ancient notion of creativity as a species of divine madness is reborn, above all, in van Gogh.

He went on to circumnavigate the frigid continent, demolishing the ancient notion that a land of plenty girdled the bottom of the globe.

Belief in ghosts is based on the ancient notion that a human spirit is separable from the body and may maintain its existence after the body's death.

But it also brings upheaval, tearing apart ancient notions of who we are.

This way of thinking reflects ancient notions about women's place in the family and under the Constitution — ideas that have long since been discredited".

Justice Ginsburg responded that those views reflected "ancient notions of women's place in the family and under the Constitution — ideas that have long since been discredited".

The appeal of this account is obvious: it combines ancient notions of illness (specifically, the idea that sickness resulted from imbalanced humors) with the modern understanding of the molecular culprits that make us suffer — germs.

That building's rich symbolic vocabulary was gleaned from east and west, past and present, from ancient notions in theology and current trends in geology, from superstition and enlightenment, the local and the wholly distant.