Sentence examples for lay notion from inspiring English sources

It is worth remarking that the first example shows how even a child can create ciphers, at a cost of making as many flips of a fair coin as he has bits of information to conceal, that cannot be "broken" by even national cryptologic services with arbitrary computing power disabusing the lay notion that the unachieved goal of cryptography is to devise a cipher that cannot be broken.

Their "depression" is a lay notion that, for the majority of the study participants, is a normal response to adversity that does not require psychotherapeutic or psychopharmacologic treatment.

Fatigue is an essentially subjective phenomenon; clinically, it remains undefined due to the overlap between the lay notion of tiredness and the clinically relevant symptom of fatigue [ 3].

Under each outwardly celebratory page of Banham's book lies the notion of change as Los Angeles' only constant: no matter how excitingly modern the car and the freeway, their day will come to an end; no matter how comfortably idyllic the detached house, it too must fall out of favour, or into impracticality, sooner or later.

At the heart of Śaṃkara's teaching lies the notion that the true knowledge of the ātman is knowledge that is devoid of any of the above-mentioned qualities.

They wanted to play on and lay bare the notion of a world's fair pavilion by creating an ethereal ghost of one in which there is nothing to see.

Behind the jest lay a serious notion: that Mr Greenspan's reputation is so golden, and his chairmanship of the Fed so perfect, that he should be kept on for as long as possible.

Beyond this notion lay still gloomier thoughts about the vanity of human wishes and the frailty of human knowledge, and, wishing to push them away, writer shut the book and went back to work.

None of this is to justify Amtrak per se, or the excesses of its system which lay in the notion that our national ego would be damaged by a slimming of habitually underpopulated service routes.

Behind this notion lies the false belief that we can be like Dubai, bringing in only the wealthiest, best, and brightest, as though immigrants were something to be ordered off a menu.

By conducting workshops with a patient and public involvement group and a scoping review, we identified dissonance between lay and professional notions of individualisation.