Sentence examples for conception like from inspiring English sources

There is the Deep, a lottery-funded aquarium contained in a pointy, iceberg-like projection designed by Terry Farrell, which although it looked at the time of its conception like a poorly considered excuse to spend money, is apparently doing well.

"I am sure Bach was seeking an expression here that only later with the big symphonies of the Classical and Romantic periods became standard," he said, "that is: to write a series of movements that is to be considered as one whole conception, like a big Bruckner symphony".

Her conception of the function of morality is notable both for its affinity to, and its difference from, Thomas Hobbes' conception: like Hobbes, Rand sees morality as a necessary means to long-term survival, but unlike Hobbes, she does not see morality as requiring a contract or even as a fundamentally social affair.

Pearce is tight-lipped and anguished in a role that's a flat conception, like everything else in the story.

Other students who have a complete process conception of 0.999... may not yet be able to "encapsulate" that process into an "object conception", like the object conception they have of 1, and so they view the process 0.999... and the object 1 as incompatible.

The empericum for conception, like other additions, subsequently appears inside the main body of Gilbertus's text in manuscripts through the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and into the printed edition of 1510.

More than many other ridings in the province, Bonavista-Trinity-Conception liked to send strong, fighting Newfoundlanders to Ottawa including a couple of premiers.

The pre-Socratics thus revealed difficulties in specific assumptions about the infinitely many and the infinitely small and about the relation of geometry to physical reality, as well as in more general conceptions like "existence" and "proof".

At present, a series of physical conceptions like entropy maximization have been applied to economic issues and have achieved a great success.

But such interpretations reverberates subversive religious conceptions like the aforementioned seemingly anarchistic Taoist teachings and that of other anti-authoritarian religious traditions creating a complex relationship regarding the question as to whether or not anarchism and religion are compatible.

The great, passionate, intense sweep of music that is the first act, from the overture to Idamante's recognition of his long-lost but forbidding father, is Romantic in conception and, like the plays of Shelley or Byron, impossible to represent fully on stage.