Sentence examples for defunct notion from inspiring English sources

In this new "de-massified" world, electoral majorities or singular "public opinion" -- like the defunct notion of the general newspaper reader -- have proven to be phantoms.

Also defunct is the notion of ignoring everyone in Europe outside the Six Nations.

First, it creates a straw man, reviving the notion, now defunct, of the Dark Ages.

Many of the world's biggest companies (including BP and the now defunct Enron) have embraced the notion.

In a wake-up call to monocultural Britain, it takes you into the mind of young fundamentalists, exposing places in which the old notion of being British is defunct.

Every recent prime minister has struggled to overcome this sense of thwartedness and decline, and to come up with a notion of Britishness to replace the defunct imperial version.

The more I read about these desires, the more I think about the portal notions behind the idiotic and now defunct Time Warner Pathfinder.

The notion of an All-Star center is officially defunct — at least on the ballot that determines N.B.A. All-Stars.

The notion of an All-Star center is officially defunct — at least on the ballots that determine N.B.A. All-Stars.

The doorbell, which in my day chimed a carillon from Beethoven's "Ode to Joy," is long since defunct, and so my widow takes a while to register the notion that someone is knocking at the front door.

The starting point of Project Nim, funded by BBC Films and the now defunct UK Film Council, is an investigation by Columbia psychologist Herb Terrace into the notion that a chimpanzee raised among people might master human communication.