Sentence examples for is sometimes supposed from inspiring English sources

It is sometimes supposed that the turtle's ear is a degenerate organ, largely or even completely unresponsive to sound.

It wasn't as suicidal as is sometimes supposed: 673 men rode out; 118 were killed and 127 wounded.

McCrum's biography makes it clear that he was a much more astute figure than is sometimes supposed.

Introducing the research paper, the Tory peer wrote: "Public opinion on immigration is more varied, and certainly more nuanced, than is sometimes supposed.

She also reflected that playing comedy was less challenging than is sometimes supposed: "I have never played comedy anyway, except absolutely straight.

net The character of a man insensible to ordinary human relations, who lives the life of pure selfishness which is sometimes supposed to produce great art, has always had its fascination for novelists inspired only by the unusual.

("Righteousness" and "justification" translate the same Greek word, dikaiosynē.) In later Christianity it was sometimes supposed that "works of the law" are "good deeds" and that Paul thus set faith in opposition to good works.

On this last point it should be remembered that he added "under the conditions fixed…by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty," and that if by "criticism" is understood (as Arnold meant) "evaluation," Arnold's dictum is seen to have wider significance than has been sometimes supposed.

Specifically, the entities characteristic of the relevant discourse are sometimes supposed then to have the same ontological status as fictional entities.

The songs are built around noises that Camille makes with her mouth and body: clicks, slaps, and hoots that are only sometimes supposed to be funny.

The second half of the book is titled "The Reverse Is Also True," suggesting that another, opposite view of an idea, subject or narrative is sometimes as revealing as its supposed authentic version.