Sentence examples for idea of the thing from inspiring English sources

The idea of the thing is somehow less troubling than the thing itself.

To many, the idea of the thing, in the Kevorkian case, was tolerable in the 120 killings we never saw.

And, activists say, there's just the foolish idea of the thing: old trees cut down for the briefest and most undignified of ends.

It's a familiar phenomenon: When you fetishize — as opposed to value — something, you wind up celebrating the idea of the thing rather than the thing itself.

Whether it becomes "the thing itself" remains to be seen, but even as "the idea of the thing" it strikes a blow where one is seriously needed, against the big business of art schools.

Their first game Thing-in-Itself is an interactive short story that explores the relationship between lead characters Molly and Ted, inspired by Immanuel Kant's distinction between how objects appear differently to different people and the idea of the "thing in itself".

"It gave me an idea of the things I need to be aware of when managing dealers in future".

He has no idea of the things that people will know when they finally do watch it.

But can you give me any idea of the things you're still hoping to talk Nader into?

Businesspeople have no idea of the things newspapers will get up to when they are following a celebrity.

We have some idea of the things that could go wrong' and we have ideas for tools to correct them.