Sentence examples for be a conception of from inspiring English sources

Mill's notion of individuality can be understood to be a conception of autonomy.

Presupposed in the foregoing account is a conception of human beings as economic animals rationally and self-interestedly engaged in minimizing costs and maximizing gains.

What was overthrown was a conception of where and how politics is conducted.

The sculpture of the woman was a conception of a lighthouse by the artist Alison Saar.

That is a conception of liberal internationalism as a historical process rather than as an ideal.

Foremost is a conception of abstraction as unusually body oriented and actively engaged with either the optics of perception or the possibility of function.

What Marx brought to the idea of class struggle was a conception of how it had developed and how it must eventually turn out.

It's a conception of government that is reluctant to impose mandates and bans but is kind of shrewd about enlisting what we know about human behavior in good directions".

Somewhere behind Miss Porter's stories there is a conception of a natural human spirit in terms of their bearing on which all the other forces of society are appraised.

It is a conception of the poet's role that goes back to the Romantic movement of the early 19th century, but that was scorned by the more hard-edged practitioners of 20th-century modernism.

Connecting these two poems, for Brock-Broido, is a conception of grief as "almost impossible to transform, because it's so plain, it's so simple, it's so universal".