Sentence examples for commonplace notion that from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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".

Minus Royce's anthropomorphism, this notion — that God suffered on the cross and thus suffers with us now when we suffer — has become commonplace in contemporary theodicy.

The notion that "good intentions can have bad results" became a commonplace.

The notion that most carbon must stay underground has now become commonplace: everyone from the World Bank on down uses the same rhetoric that Keystone protesters started employing.

The notion that we live in a global economy is now a commonplace.

By James Surowiecki The notion that we live in a global economy is now a commonplace.

Gun battles breaking out between different communities have been commonplace over the last decade, and the brutal assassinations of public figures have incinerated any notion that Lebanon adheres to the principles of a functioning democracy.

The notion that companies are willing to pay a higher price for companies overseas is almost commonplace today among columnists, given the current U.S. policy toward corporate taxes.