Sentence examples for commonplace assumptions from inspiring English sources

Some of these contested commonplace assumptions of what art is; others served to buttress those assumptions.

If salvation is his goal, his method in both Sum and his new book, Incognito, is to ask us to cast off our lazy, commonplace assumptions.

We will aim to discard commonplace assumptions about these tools and phenomena, to ask deeper questions about their impact on society.

Our authority derives from our willingness to challenge authority, not only the authority of those in power, but also that of commonplace assumptions and conventional wisdom.

Both philosophers questioned the commonplace assumptions that there is a "reality" distinct from the ideas or perceptions given in experience and that it is within the power of human reason to discern that reality's true nature.

Studies of the past few decades — including "King and Messiah as Son of God" (Adela Yarbro Collins and John J. Collins) and my own "Sex and the Single Savior: Gender and Sexuality in Biblical Interpretation" — have overturned these once commonplace assumptions.

It is a commonplace assumption, for instance, that they were undone by overly generous union contracts.

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

I have often noted that students who have never had an art history course can be overwhelmed by a commonplace assumption that artistic "masterpieces" are self-evidently great.

Advances in printing enabled the previously impossible proliferation of published architectural books, which created the commonplace assumption that important and scholarly architects wrote treatises.

I am disappointed to see Tripathi fall for the commonplace assumption that the Chinese spent three decades doing nothing, or suffering passively the blunders of their erratic chairman.