Sentence examples for great fallacy from inspiring English sources

Dennis MacShane, Britain's minister for Europe, observed: "The great fallacy is that as Europe gets bigger, somehow it gets more disintegrated.

DANNY BLANCHFLOWER, the eloquent captain of the all-conquering Tottenham Hotspur side of 1961, famously remarked that "the great fallacy is that the game is first and last about winning.

The New Yorker, December 21 , 1929P. 17 Great fallacy of public debates, such as one one marriage last week, is that public speakers don't get down to business.

"The Nikkei is now essentially not a great deal more than a high-tech index -- like the Nasdaq," he said, "so it's a great fallacy to believe that the global markets have become more correlated.

The great fallacy here, of course, is that a 12-cylinder engine is necessarily more potent than a V-8.

It is the great fallacy of Dr. Mandeville's book to represent every passion as wholly vicious, which is so in any degree and in any direction.

And therein lies one of the great fallacies of the recent boom and bubble.

One of the great fallacies in sea literature and maritime history is that place doesnt matter.

One of the great fallacies perpetrated by critics and theorists in the last half-century or more is the notion of the "text" detached from the author whether it's the closed-off symbolic system of New Criticism or the allusive web of deconstructionists.

… One of the great fallacies is that startups are really good at executing".

One of the great fallacies expressed by some in the immigration debate today is that contemporary immigrants just aren't assimilating or Americanizing in the way the "good old" immigrants did in the Ellis Island generations of the early twentieth century.