Sentence examples for contrary folk from inspiring English sources

CONTRARY folk, Scandinavians.

On the contrary, folks from India or Southeast Asia are more likely to say the same code is "OK" to avoid a confrontation.

Contrary to folk wisdom, the framers did not reject popular election because of a fear that the people might fall prey to a demagogue.

Contrary to folk wisdom, it's not that your stomach is actually expanding, but more likely a result of the type of foods you overindulged in.

It might turn out that psychologists make use of belief content in their best psychological theories in an internalist manner, contrary to our folk intuitions.

Contrary to the folk notion of a mental lexicon where word types are associated to fully specified meanings or senses, lexical semantic forms have therefore been taken to correspond to schematic representations whose primary function is to supervise the recruitment of the extra-linguistic information required to interpret word occurrences in language use.

"Contrary to most folks' assumptions, a successful conservative church must constantly adapt to social change," Professor Iannaccone said.

But it has long since been proven that the death penalty or capital punishment is not a deterrent, contrary to some folks' beliefs.

But I think that, on the contrary, magical events and folk beliefs in the writings of García Márquez show how powerfully the Golden Age has lingered in memory.

Contrary to what some folks believe, we are not breeding Intel finalists".

Now, let's get one thing straight: contrary to what several folks have claimed to me this morning, last night's display by Tim Howard was absolutely not one of the great goalkeeping performances.