Sentence examples for be an idea rather from inspiring English sources

We're the man!" Since leaving office, Gnarr has dissolved the Best party, which in any case, he says, was only ever supposed to be an "idea" rather than a functioning reality.

Al-Qa'ida is an idea rather than an organisation, and this has long been so.

But it shows all the signs of being an idea rather than a real thing.

Here's an idea: Rather than surrender and admit you don't know how to say it, follow the advice in "Work Bitch" and "work hard, like it's your profession".

For tourists, it's always been a fantasy – an idea rather than a destination, an imagined idyll where everything is beautiful, from the weather to the food.

Britain is an idea or, rather, a complicated set of ideas that exist purely in millions of human minds.

Prinz was an "idea man" rather than as a choreographer, creating lavish production numbers and using simple steps and dance routines.

Since Jewishness was defined by an idea rather than by a nationality, for instance, it stood to reason that Jews would no longer need to pray for the restoration of their lost state in the land of Israel.

If beauty is an idea in us, rather than a feature of objects independent of us, then how do we understand the possibility of correctness and incorrectness – how do we understand the possibility of standards of judgment – in this domain?

She is an idea of a mother rather than a real one, whereas Silver's 13-year-old angst, her small joys and dark anger, are completely recognisable.

That a rape victim who preferred not to reveal her identity should be obliged to face a public trial by the press is an idea that I find rather repellent.