Sentence examples for commonplace notion from inspiring English sources

Not everyone accepts the commonplace notion that modern political theatre must be even-handed.

In his speech earlier this month on the anniversary of German unification, he took the liberty of reaffirming the commonplace notion, which former presidents had already affirmed, that not only Christianity and Judaism but "Islam also belongs in Germany".

The film has echoes of Hitchcock's Vertigo and Cocteau's Orphée and turns on the commonplace notion that the dead remain with us until their work on earth has been discharged.

Through a handful of survivors, Mr. Boucault hoped to rescue a crucial piece of Jewish history and to counter the commonplace notion that Jews did nothing to resist their Nazi executioners.

Widely broadening our conception of what it means to have large ears and to live in a world in which the word "hutch" is not always preceded by the phrase "Starsky and...," this talk explodes commonplace notions about large front teeth and hopping.

Americans take that idea for granted as a commonplace ordinary notion.

By the 1990s, as people became used to viewing health in terms of a set of risk factors and as multiple drug regimes for the management of long-term medical conditions became commonplace, so the notion of regular checkups and tests, in which vital signs are monitored as a matter of course, began to be seen as normal.

Marc Sageman is a forensic psychiatrist and government counterterrorism consultant whose bestselling books Understanding Terror Networks and Leaderless Jihad provide a detailed, damning corrective to commonplace yet simplistic notions of Islamist terrorism.

What I am talking about is something more commonplace than Hannah Arendt's notion of the "banality of evil"; something summed up for me in a remarkable picture taken by my friend Ron Haviv when he photographed the Serb militia of "Arkan" Ražnatovic and his men-murdering civilians.

He said if you pray to Allah and if you have been loyal to Allah, you would get 80 virgins, or something like that". Now, it is the easiest thing in the world to make fun of the notion, apparently a commonplace among jihadists, that a suicide bomber who successfully blows up a decent number of infidels is rewarded in heaven with 80 virgins.

By selecting mass-produced, commonplace objects, Duchamp attempted to destroy the notion of the uniqueness of the art object.