Sentence examples for crude notions from inspiring English sources

In making this distinction, he would be separating reciprocators from nonreciprocators and, in the process, developing crude notions of fairness and of cheating.

But such men entertain very crude notions, as well of the purposes for which government was instituted, as of the true means by which the public happiness may be promoted.

Actually, I'd give him more credit than that; the S-S paper — very unusually for both men, and for Bob Solow in particular — is one of those pieces sometimes described as "rich", with many points alluded to but not many takeaway lines; to the extent that people did take something away, it was the crude notion of a usable downward-sloping Phillips curve, which turned out to be wrong.

They believe in the crude Thatcherite notions about the magic of markets and individualism.

Sen often offers such views as an antidote to Samuel Huntington's crude but damagingly influential notion of self-enclosed and necessarily antagonistic civilisations defined by religion.

As William Cohen notes in his review of the subject, it has long been recognized that crude dichotomies of clean/dirty and notions of dirt as mere abjection grossly simplify the complexities of meaning inherent in the cultural construction of filth.

This notion was abandoned as crude, and for the further reason that Miss Lee decided not to work at the Fair anyway Dalí's plans had come to a temporary standstill.

The irrepressible collaborators bring to their project the high ideals of liberalism and republicanism, but also crude calculations of national advantage and eccentric notions adopted from orientalism, freemasonry, and Saint-Simonianism.

In his opening chapter he uncritically endorses "peak oil", the notion that the world's crude production will soon begin to decline, lightly dismissing the view of the many experts who believe the peak to be a long way off.

The poster used a crude caricature of a homeless person feeding the notion that a person who is faceless is a non-person.

Most pernicious was the crude extension by Spencer and others of the notion of the "struggle for existence" to human economic and social life that became known as social Darwinism (see below Scientific acceptance and extension to other disciplines).