Sentence examples for ideas familiar from inspiring English sources

Though the story seems to be about people, it's really about ideas, familiar throughout the book, which the characters also exist to serve.

In dozens of conversations with family, friends and acquaintances, I received confirmation of ideas familiar to readers of this column and also a clearer picture of the enduring appeal of Britain, the imperial retreaters.

President Obama offered other small and worthy ideas, familiar to him since his days in the Senate, that would make America better — more long-lasting batteries, more trade agreements.

Several of Chisholm's publications, perhaps especially "Sentences about Believing" and [B&IV], helped to make some of Brentano's leading ideas familiar to American philosophers.

When working on a paper in the field of biotechnology (this wasn't even a subject area when I went to school!), I found the terms and ideas familiar.

They are also ideas familiar to fans of the Mississippi-born novelist, who has only written three (but much cherished) books.

Covenant, however, as Milsom has said, represents "an elementary legal idea... familiar to the modem mind". To the medieval lawyer the word covenant (Latin, conventio) meant agreement.

It is an idea familiar to us in the West through tales such as Pinocchio, the legend of the golem, or contemporary science-fiction stories involving robots.

This is the idea, familiar from First Amendment law, of content neutrality, meaning that restrictions can turn on "time, place and manner" but not on the views being expressed.

A concept of information is developed, one deriving from (but not identical with) the Shannon idea familiar to communication theorists, in terms of which the analyses of knowledge, perception, learning, and meaning are expressed.

It took an idea familiar in Jones's work opening up the interior of a house and extended it, deploying a kind of selective realism, allowing fluid transitions between the various periods in the play.