Sentence examples for familiar assumption from inspiring English sources

Those papers turn out to include a diary and a collection of love letters that, for all their intimacies, never dislodge the most familiar assumption about Ms. Longworth's passions.

But more than just witty, for it disrupted the familiar assumption that the establishment of the Church of England is simply a question of the church desperately clinging on to its place of historic privilege.

A familiar assumption in much linguistic semantics is that meanings are to be identified conceptually as, or as subparts of, the conceptual representations deployed in general cognitive processes.

In order to explain purported conversions along the lines suggested by Bondi-Spurgin, one must make the familiar assumption that the energy of the constituents of a system, be it potential energy or kinetic energy, "contributes" to the rest-mass of the system.

Such are the familiar assumptions where this poet is concerned.

Similarly, I think that familiar assumptions about human individualism are oversimplified.

And there isn't even any of the disproving of familiar assumptions or oft-handled factoids that often go under the name of myth (like the one about Catherine the Great).

The belief is as hoary as Hamlet's soliloquy, and it's just one of the familiar assumptions Martin explores (and frequently explodes) in these adroit and perceptive stories.

Here was a piece to shake up familiar assumptions about Stravinsky's music, and — now moved to the beginning of the program — it was a bracing way to open the festival.

One implication of this view of levels, combined with certain familiar assumptions about causal relations, is that there can be no causal relationships between items at different levels of mechanisms.

As a result, we're asked to reassess all our familiar assumptions.