Sentence examples for correct the notion from inspiring English sources

Three months after Brando died of pulmonary fibrosis at age 80, some of the people closest to the actor, who was known for protecting his privacy, have begun to speak publicly about his life, partly to correct the notion, fostered by tabloid stories, that he died a recluse, almost penniless and deeply in debt.

I realise, as far as I am concerned, this possibly means saying nothing:  so far I have attempted to correct the notion that I accepted an offer to play an Asian.. the most significant and damaging misunderstanding out there, it seems.

Some would assume it's because so many black men and boys have been killed within a short amount of time; however, she reminded us that the issue of black men being targets of police violence is not a new occurrence, and it is important to correct the notion that it is.

Until such travesties are corrected, the notion of a cohesive Big Society united by common bonds of citizenship and equality will be threadbare.

Asked why he had not corrected the notion that his source was an intelligence source, he (correctly) pointed out that to have done so would have been to narrow the field in identifying his source.

When Sprewell -- who finished the night with only the second triple-double of his career -- took his spot for postgame interviews, the first question mentioned that it turned out to be his night, but he quickly and animatedly corrected the notion.

"One of the reasons why I believe this paper is so important is that it corrects the notion that caught hold in the media and some parts of the public that there was nothing that could be done to save polar bears from extinction," says Derocher.

Conceptually, the President's goal was clearly to help correct the mistaken notion shared by so many Muslims and Americans of the notion of an essential conflict between them.

This important book seeks to correct the widespread notion of a "clash of civilizations".

We would like to correct the mistaken notion in David Orr's column On Poetry (March 19) that the Library of America has "plenty of old-fashioned capital to go along with the cultural kind".

This corrects the empirical notion that the Airy functions oscillate for all negative values of x.