Sentence examples for as a certain idea from inspiring English sources
He described the heritage of Gaullism as "a certain idea of democracy that underpins all our institutions".
Mr. Mueller contends that YouTube users are as important an audience as the festivalgoers: "I see them as the defenders of a certain idea of cinema, a multitude that represents a real audience, curious, active and that goes looking for cinema wherever it's hidden," he said.
Throughout, Stein has a certain idea of France as clear as General de Gaulle's, if more detached.
I had a certain idea of myself as I approached: portrait of the writer going home.
It is a concept rooted in a certain idea of Berlin as a haven of tolerance.
You don't even have to be a mother to find a place in the new momism, which is, after all, at base about a certain idea of womanhood; woman as earthy, concrete, with her view of the world bound by personal experience — by "immanence," as Simone de Beauvoir once put it — and not by professional experience or abstract learning.
It's been described as a tribute to those who "died for a certain idea of France".
A certain idea of the city is therefore assumed here both in a functional sense and as a desirable reality.
