Sentence examples for explode the assumption from inspiring English sources

"The main, single, ferocious idea of the party is that there is not going to be a Chinese Gorbachev," said James Mann, author of The China Fantasy, a book that aims to explode the assumption that economic progress inexorably leads to democracy.

First, it exploded the assumption that China can keep racking up double-digit growth rates forever.

The crash exploded the cosy assumption that the economy could be left to itself, with social progress secured through the proceeds of finance-driven growth.

The medical journal also explodes the popular assumption that a stillborn baby had something wrong with it and "was never meant to be".

Muller pushed the idea to an extreme, assuming the stance of a historically subversive virus or vampire occupying the corpus of major writers -- like Shakespeare, Wagner, Kleist, Genet, Brecht and Sophocles -- literally adopting their styles and structures in order to explode the supposedly pernicious historical assumptions behind their revered concepts of drama.

"This exhibition will explode that assumption and reveal Haring as a serious and thoughtful student of art history with a deep curiosity about his own contemporary culture, as well as that of the past".

The research also explodes the long-held assumption that racism is largely a problem confined to urban locations and underlines it as an issue which has serious implications for ethnic minorities and policy makers.

Lehmann-Haupt found the book to begin as "irresistibly novelistic that he has disguised it as a Victorian romance," yet the metafictional construction by the end positively "explodes all the assumptions of our Victorian sensibilities".

With works like the Second Quartet, Feldman exploded these assumptions.

Among its many achievements, Mr. Haynes's film hurls a Molotov cocktail through the facade of the Hollywood biopic factory, exploding the literal-minded, anti-intellectual assumptions that guide even the most admiring cinematic explorations of artists' lives.

Pandora explodes the aura.