Sentence examples for bad idea of from inspiring English sources

Why do they cling with perverse obstinacy to the obviously bad idea of theocracy?

And then there is the frequently bad idea of incorporating actual mirrors into works of art.

"The bad idea of the decade for online bank marketing is competitive C.D. rates online," Mr. Sterling said.

Albums like this are a bad idea, of course, but often entertaining: who can forget Rubáiyát, the 1990 album released for Elektra/Asylum's fortieth anniversary?

"Most come to school with a bad idea of sororities, like hazing," said Marta Cofone, current Panhellenic president, struggling to be heard over the throb of Katy Perry at a meet-the-Greeks event during new-student orientation last month.

It was not a bad idea of theirs, that the Goddess disliked the instrument because it made the face ugly; but with still more reason may we say that she rejected it because the acquirement of flute-playing contributes nothing to the mind, since to Athene we ascribe both knowledge and art.

The bad ideas of the camel and the avocado would take a little abashed explaining.

What is the power these bad ideas of yore have over otherwise intelligent leaders?

Europe was always a mixture of good and bad ideas, of liberalism and openness and darker, more nativist forces.

BOROWITZ: I never think I have much power to change anything, but I think that there's kind of a cumulative effect — not so much that it can bring down the Presidency, but I do think that the bad ideas of an Administration can be brought down by endless pummelling, even if some of it is comedic.

The founding idea of modern economics is Adam Smith's invisible hand, and this great idea, badly over-simplified, was the foundation of many bad ideas of the last generation.