Sentence examples for around a notion from inspiring English sources

Whereas the billionaire lifestyle is pegged out around a notion of absolute certainties, a sense of being continually replete, recumbent on a giant mattress made of veal, helicoptered from triple-glazed pyramid to glass-walled enormo-drome.

WHATEVER else it may accomplish, "1969," the latest thematic project of the contemporary-music ensemble Alarm Will Sound, proves that you can build something substantial — a historically astute program that makes solid, provocative points — around a notion thoroughly lacking in substance.

"We wanted to get rid of chronology to create a kind of soup," said Mr. Marsh, whose snippets of a life include Mr. Bowie's cut-up words and a machine to whirl them around — a notion that ideas can be changed by chopping up language — and the wild and wonderful costumes for the 1973 "Aladdin Sane" tour by the Japanese designer Kansai Yamamoto, who is caught on screen today reliving the moment.

It cheers me to think there may be more like him all around me — a notion I would have dismissed as sheer romanticism before World War II.

Others have written about how the game can be habit-forming and change how we think about the world around us -- a notion that's now referred to as the "Tetris effect".

THERE seems to be a notion around that an economy with unemployment at the current rate of 5.7percentt is not doing too badly at all.

There is a notion around cloud computing that companies born in the cloud have an advantage over those that are transitioning to the cloud because they have an acute understanding of how it works that a company moving to the cloud can't possibly match.

He told the story of our country as one in which we moved closer and closer to being a society built around equal opportunity and a notion of the common good that provided a basic safety net for those of us who faced hard times.

Instead of converging around a single notion of beauty, we will invent new forms of human beauty.

A two-act, two-hour dramatized piece that at times resembled both an earnest revue and a flamboyant artistic gumbo, "1969" is built around a fascinating notion: a planned meeting between the avant-garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen and the iconoclastic Beatle John Lennon, scheduled for Feb. 9, 1969, then prevented by a blizzard.

By rallying around a nebulous notion of a greater good that flows through humanity at scale (miraculously alienating no one in the process!), Facebook can be some things to all people — and that's really been its true mission all along.