Sentence examples for elemental notions from inspiring English sources

Sociological and anthropological research suggests that Americans' feelings about firearms and whether to carry them for self defense are driven by elemental notions like identity and masculinity, rather than empirical measures of safety gained or lost.

They acted in favor of the most elemental notion of rationality and principle.

Our results are consistent with the notion that elemental diet is associated with a reduction in aspiration and aspiration pneumonia in bedridden PEG patients and can be used without changing the regular schedule and approach for PEG feedings.

Table 1 shows how elemental semantic categories are realized due to the notion of semantic junction.

With the rise of the orthodoxy, then, the foremost and elemental factor that came to be emphasized was the notion of the majority of the community.

Another of the applications of the notion of active potency is to explain elemental change.

Such abstract notions may put off fans of the genre in its most elemental, slice-and-dice form.

In this work she introduced the notion of "tropisms," a term borrowed from botany and meaning elemental impulses alternately attracted and repelled by each other.

They describe their work, which evokes a deep connection with nature and deals with elemental themes like nakedness, hunger and death, as "infused with relentless stillness that subverts and transcends our everyday notions of time and space".

The truth, for Cusk, lies elsewhere, not in story but in history, in the notion of aftermath that she helpfully identifies (lest we fail to) as "the book's elemental theme".

"Elemental, elemental," he said.