Sentence examples for challenge the commonplace from inspiring English sources

We should challenge the commonplace assumption that politics is an activity reserved for a narrow band of elites, and that voting is pointless.

By highlighting Indian achievements in mathematics, astronomy, linguistics, medicine and political economy, Sen also wishes to challenge the commonplace prejudice that the west has "exclusive access to the values that lie at the foundation of rationality and reasoning, science and evidence, liberty and tolerance, and of course rights and justice".

From there, Saunders convincingly challenges the commonplace that English Arthurian romances define character by action, arguing instead, via attentive readings of passages from Ywain and Gawain, Sir Launfal, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Malory's Morte Darthur, that character is created out of an imbrication of mind, body, and affect.

In both cases the upshot, to which Socrates must respond, is a fully formed challenge to commonplace conceptions of justice.

What makes Machiavelli a troubling yet stimulating thinker is that, in his attempt to draw different conclusions from the commonplace expectations of his audience, he still incorporated important features of precisely the conventions he was challenging.

There the commonplace ends.

The safe, the sound, the commonplace.

Bowlers win matches, the commonplace understanding goes.

They were warned to avoid the commonplace.

The ludicrous has now become the commonplace.

The commonplace is made mythic, Cocteau style.