For much of the movie, though, Mr. Damon is handicapped by the filmmakers' conception of Thorson as someone who is constantly acted upon — picked up, possessed, subjected to cosmetic surgery and dangerous diets, legally adopted by his much older lover and eventually discarded for a younger model.
Both Stravinsky and Casella were astonished at the original conceptions and advanced style of someone whose musical education had been so desultory.
They discussed Mr. Malvo's background, saying he was born in Jamaica and raised as a Seventh-day Adventist before he converted to what Michael S. Arif, a third lawyer for Mr. Malvo, described as "a unique blend of someone else's conception of Islam".
This is hardly the low-calorie, fat-free candidacy of someone whose main conception of the presidency is to smile and do no harm.This is not to say that he would necessarily prove a good president, or a better one than Al Gore.
Postponement until such a high age increases the risk that offspring will learn about the nature of their conception from someone else, by accident or through increased awareness about heredity.
For instance, someone who has a narrow conception of harm, might believe that evil actions need not be harmful.
You might also try to hurt someone who is not a fan enough or someone who does not correspond to your conception of a fan - fanatics display little tolerance for contrary.
"I like a lot of the names I see on spam e-mails because they're completely abstract, with little conception of culture or traditional sounds," said a posting by someone using the name Oissubke, a self-described fiction writer.
Therefore, someone who does not share the Cartesian conception of the nature of bodies as being exhausted by extension would not be in a position to endorse the PN argument.
