Sentence examples similar to exploded notion from inspiring English sources

One, The Regency, seems to embody in its name all our exploded notions of Hollywood's imperial heyday.

Friday at 8 p.m.; Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m.; Sunday at 2 and 7 30 p.m.; Tuesday and Wednesday at 7 30 p.m.; Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, at 19th Street, Chelsea, (212) 242-0800, joyce.org; $10 to $59. (La Rocco 20091119 ★ ANNA HALPRIN, ANNE COLLOD AND GUESTS (Friday and Saturday) In 1967 Ms. Halprin's "Parades and Changes" exploded notions of dance.

—Daniel Mendelsohn This fall I reread, for the first time in years, Roland Barthes's photographical treatise "Camera Lucida," which explodes notions of category (to stop at "criticism" as a label does the book a serious disservice) and made me reconsider the walls I'd built between the different kinds of writing I enjoy, and would like to try to do.

Israel, Britain and the United States have pretty much had a corner on the global drone market, but the recent Chinese air show and a Pentagon report have exploded that notion.

After last week's stuttering performance by President Obama exploded the notion that he was going to coast home, and gave Mitt Romney a lifeline, we are now in a European-style four-week election campaign, where every twist and turn counts.

But Sandoval and the Giants exploded such notions, pestering Verlander through a stunningly mediocre outing.

Heavy on distortion and on long, swirling tangents, the record recalls an ostentatious era of weirdness in pop music — a time when artists like George Clinton and Sly Stone assembled large, ramshackle groups of collaborators and exploded previous notions of race and sexual identity.

Always directly expressive and deceptively simple, his blues writing exploded received notions of form, harmony, and melody; he broke our hearts with the ultimate romantic ballads; he provided vehicle after vehicle for the greatest jazz singers of the age; and, of course, he made us all swing.

It explodes the notion, basic to assemblage, that the materials to make art are everywhere.

All he needed was a trigger to explode his notion of who his barbecuing buddy really is: the mild-mannered, milquetoast chemistry teacher.

At Pacific Bell Park, the new home of the Giants overlooking the splendid bay, the menu explodes the notion of traditional ballpark food.