But the idea of 32 Beethoven sonatas is so embedded in public consciousness that it won't easily be dislodged.
They seemed to be waving amiably to the saturnine Serra, whose embedded slabs induce consciousness of the earth's sullen, immemorially surging mass.
While carbon emissions and water use are pretty firmly embedded in the consciousness of most organizations, the use of plastic generally is not.
The depiction of the two generations is meant to show the conflict between Jewish tradition and loyalty to the state, a theme embedded in the consciousness of many Jewish painters.
As we attempted to work out the time it took to get to that Best Buy store, the real-life players – Adnan Syed, his murdered girlfriend Hae Min Lee and friend Jay Wilds – became embedded in our consciousness.
But their gothic gates and silk-draped parlors are clear echoes of the Russian aristocratic country estate, an institution still deeply embedded in the consciousness here, though swept away by the 1917 revolution.
The difference this time is that with each language gone, we may also lose whatever knowledge and history were locked up in its stories and myths, along with the human consciousness embedded in its grammatical structure and vocabulary.
Sometimes a narrative is so deeply embedded in cultural consciousness that a single moment from it, or maybe two — as in a before and after — can stand in for the epic whole.
The legendary contrariness of Scots raises its head here; in this conflict the Ulster Scots, a group embedded in our consciousness as arch-unionists, were the rebels, while British loyalists included in their ranks many Highlanders who had fought with Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobites against the Hanoverian crown.
His own vocabulary and the heavily weighted emphasis of his speech is so embedded in public consciousness that it has become a comic style as recognisable as an epigram from Oscar Wilde or a line from one of his other literary heroes, PG Wodehouse.
