Sentence examples for defined idea from inspiring English sources

Elektronic The Barbican Centre, London EC2 On paper, this must have seemed like a good, if somewhat loosely defined, idea.

But imaginations are limited when girls are given only a narrowly defined idea of what being a woman looks like.

The very notion of a multicultural society challenges that simple, clear, defined idea of what it means to be British.

"New Yorkers have a very defined idea of what they want out of coffee and a coffee shop," Mr. Nye said.

Often a project is initially presented as either a loosely defined idea, or a shoot the works scenario wherein everyone is promised a pony.

In the generations since caricature became a clearly defined idea, there have been occasional examples in painting and sculpture alongside the more usual drawing for reproduction.

Ever since her days as an impoverished Baltimore debutante who took a bus to visit Ellen, the seamstress, young Wallis Warfield had clearly defined ideas about clothes and celebrities whose outfits she wished to copy.

Historian and Philadelphia-native Lombardo demonstrates how blue-collar whites did not immediately abandon welfare liberalism but instead selectively rejected liberal policies based on culturally defined ideas of privilege, disadvantage, identity, and entitlement.

Carers had well defined ideas about what a good care plan should look like, and what it should be used for.

Emily Esfahani Smith is an editor at The New Criterion and Defining Ideas, a Hoover Institution journal.

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