Sentence examples for ancient notions from inspiring English sources

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.

But they do seek to show that Deng's pursuit of market-oriented reforms might well have met far more resistance if Mao had not bequeathed him a blank slate — that is, a ruling party exhausted by bloody campaigns and a people purged of their ancient notions of order.

The desalting of seawater is an ancient notion.

Indeed, you might argue that the dogmatic adherence to that ancient notion is part of the problem currently afflicting Old Trafford.

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

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.