Sentence examples for conceptions of them from inspiring English sources

Perpetrators of mass murder are usually nothing like our conceptions of them.

As you read accounts in coming days, weigh Mr. Cullen's words: "Perpetrators of mass murder are usually nothing like our conceptions of them.

Ferris has a chapter for each kind of object, from the Sun to quasars, with what you never find in an astronomy book -- the story of human perceptions of these objects, the resulting conceptions of them and, in some cases, encounters with them.

In an Opinion piece written in July after the Auora shootings, Dave Cullen, one of the first wave of reporters after the Columbine shootings in 1999, writes "Don't Jump to Conclusions About the Killer," cautioning, "Perpetrators of mass murder are usually nothing like our conceptions of them.

Anti-realists either doubt or deny the existence of the entities the metaphysical realist believes in or else doubt or deny their independence from our conceptions of them.

Consequently our conceptions of them can be precise and certain, for as conceptual entities they escape the sorts of change and bodily limits characteristic of the physical world.

Any conception of them as cynics concocting theories to suit the wishes of, say, rich and greedy constituents seemed very wide of the mark".

As Scott Moncrieff's translation has it: Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, by the immobility of our conception of them.

This effort mutated into a conviction that sport, as practiced by the ancient Greeks (or by his conception of them), would bring out the best in the world's nation-states, maybe chief among them France.

His Martians are not alien like Heinlein's or futuristically evolved like Welles's but a premodern people akin to the ancient Egyptians or American Indians (or a boy's idealized conception of them), our superiors not technologically but spiritually.

Cavendish might reply to this objection by making a distinction between things that are inconceivable in the sense that there is a contradiction in our conception of them, and things that are inconceivable in the weaker sense that we lack the cognitive resources to understand them.