Sentence examples for commonplace views from inspiring English sources

Princeton is facing demands for the renaming of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, because the former president (of the university as well as the US) shared then commonplace views that now would be considered racist.

Thus with regards to the water challenge of how and why to improve efficiency, society finds itself facing multiple risks; errors in terminology employed, poor engagement with local users on the issue; inappropriate computational methods and a lack of well-executed analyses to challenge commonplace views.

It's become a commonplace view that the election has primarily been about economics and that's boring.

_____ Claim: "We've got to reverse what has become a kind of commonplace view, which is everybody needs to go to college.

I seem always to begin with the apprehension of details, as if, among objects in a commonplace view, one or two had begun to glow or resonate with imaginative potential.

Even the commonplace view that Alex Salmond is some kind of titan of politics (he's not, as the foul-up with Donald Trump demonstrates) serves to demonstrate just how unused we are to a major regional political figure.

This commonplace view of Wharton as the reliable observer of her era's social mores, the recording secretary for a disappearing class, minimizes the complexity of her artistry and leads Mr. Gates to underrate Terence Davies's brilliant accomplishment in his film adaptation of "The House of Mirth".

"Without a doubt the commonplace view of photography ever since its inception... is that it records a moment of reality as it actually appeared," writes Martin Jay, a professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley, in his book "Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in 20th-Century French Thought".

Two years ago, both Geraldine Ferraro, the first female candidate of a major political party to run for vice president, and Jesse Jackson were quoted as saying that they thought a black man would have a harder time than a white woman getting elected president, a commonplace view at the time.

The commonplace view is conservative.

Now Occidental is breaking ranks in another way, by upsetting the commonplace view that the days of "easy oil" in the U.S. are over.