Sentence examples for ingrained assumption from inspiring English sources

An ingrained assumption that women only made homes for their families — Steinem did not first marry until she was in her sixties and has no children — kept her with moving boxes, curtain-less windows, and a persistent feeling of impermanence.

It refers to the very real tendency of some men to explain things to women, whether they need them explaining or not, because of an ingrained assumption that they're too ignorant – their pretty little heads too full of boys and makeup, no doubt – to understand.

That's especially true when it comes to housing, because of the ingrained assumption that, over time, real estate is guaranteed to be an excellent investment — even though Shiller, in a recent book, shows that, allowing for inflation, American home prices barely budged during the twentieth century.

Another problem for Corbyn is the intrinsic conservatism of the concision demanded by news shows: it's difficult to explain why an ingrained assumption is wrong in a soundbite, and it's to his credit that he can't seem to be bothered trying.

Evans calls this shift job atomization, and posits that society's ingrained "assumption that every able-bodied adult should have a full-time job" is the actual problem standing in the way of an automated future.

It is so entrenched that a man should do job x, or head up team y, or do shit z in airplane bathroom α, and we need to rail against that ingrained assumption, we need to think bigger.

Ingrained assumptions rule.

It happens when some men act on these ingrained assumptions.

Such advice may seem facile, but it runs counter to deeply ingrained assumptions about pop musicians.

Corbyn's campaign is the best advert for participatory democracy in a long time precisely because it is upending our most ingrained assumptions about electioneering.

What Gould's book reminds us over and over again is that even very clever, generous and thoughtful people who are raised with a set of ingrained assumptions are likely to find evidence to support those assumptions.