Sentence examples for destructive notion from inspiring English sources

Although Freud professed sympathy for gay people, American psychoanalysts later fostered the destructive notion that homosexuality could be cured through therapy.

It's preposterous, but an all too seductive and destructive notion.

The stubborn, lost-husband-refusing-to-ask-for-directions man might be a handy caricature, but it's also rooted in a very real, very destructive notion of masculinity.

Starring women like vlogger Naptural85, model Kendall Keith, blogger StyledByAle and others who help to narrate the commercial which aims to highlight and challenge big beauty's destructive notion of what normal hair is and isn't.

To confront the relatively recent phenomenon of accusations of witchcraft against children, governments struggling with this issue must develop public sensitization campaigns that firmly dispel the crippling, destructive notion that children can be witches.

The stubborn lost-husband-refusing-to-ask-for-directions might be a handy caricature – one that's helped people like Martin Clunes sustain a career in television for over 30 years – but it's also rooted in a very real, very destructive notion of masculinity.

(Flash mobs began as a lighthearted way for people to gather together to sing and dance in public, but morphed into something destructive as the notion was adopted by thugs and troublemakers).

The destructive enmeshment of notions of nationalism, religion and personal "honor" leads to many a social ill Muslim societies are afflicted with.

But this completely misunderstands the essence of the Establishment Clause, which is not about protecting people from what they might see as the "unpleasantness" of religious expression, but about keeping the government neutral in the realm of religion, because the Framers understood that non-neutrality by the government would prove divisive and destructive of the very notion of "We the People".

Because, as beautiful as it looks and as avant-garde as its techniques may sound, "Knight of Cups'" notion of the destructive, soul destroying power of the movie business is as dreary and dated as those wild and crazy parties Rick is forever going to.

Further research has since supported this notion, indicating that the destructive spiral of workplace incivility, may be a building block in a negative work environment [ 6].