A theme ran through these recent opinions: that the Supreme Court had lost touch with fundamental notions of fair play.
A more profound benefit of the Pentagon's proposal might have been its challenging of fundamental notions about the structure and functions of an intelligence agency.
They are then arranged with a kind of radical simplicity or Pythagorean mathematical purity that continues, long after Duchamp, to challenge fundamental notions of the definition of art.
Philadelphia has declared "the end of the lie," and a Wired article, titled "Don't Even Think About Lying," proclaimed that fMRI is "poised to transform the security industry, the judicial system, and our fundamental notions of privacy".
Among the many excellent movies I saw there, "Evolution of a Criminal" (which will play in New York next month in BAMcinemaFest) stands out as a work that undermined some of my fundamental notions about filmmaking.
"Subjecting Mills's synoptic portrait of the office to the claims of history reveals ideologies and classes being made and unmade, along with fundamental notions of how and why we work," Saval writes.
Rohmer doesn't minimize that damage; on the contrary, the Count's crime nearly shatters Julietta's very sanity, breaks a family apart, and calls into question the fundamental notions of reason.
As it works to shut down the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, the Obama administration faces a no less pressing challenge in bringing the larger military detention center at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan squarely within the rule of law and fundamental notions of fairness.
Martenot and his sister Ginette scheduled a world tour of demonstration concerts (1931 32), and Martenot wrote studies on the instrument's use and on music education, including Méthode Martenot (1952; "The Martenot Method") and Principes fondamentaux de formation musicale et leur application (1970; "Fundamental Notions of Music Education and Their Application").
The inexplicable nature of romantic longing, the insuperable divide between thought and feeling, is a predicament as old as the hills, and one that, I'd guess, women are more disturbed by than men -- especially the sort of women who have "grasped certain fundamental notions first advanced by Plato" and still find themselves doubled over with "the agony of sexual reasoning".
