Sentence examples for lingering idea from inspiring English sources

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Recent years have demolished the lingering idea that animated cinema is strictly for children, or that it trivialises its material.

It is as though modern screenwriters were minded to kill off any lingering idea that comedy bears a logical connection to elegance: good riddance to Ernst Lubitsch.

Then he revamped a lingering idea: to portray a suburban American family and cloak the story in the details of an ancient genre — the gangster film.

And Peter Gill's The York Realist dealt beautifully with the collision between city and country – and the lingering idea that culture is the prerogative of the few.

The modern reader may admire John for his principles, for his insistence on doing "kaffir work" - manual labour such as laying concrete that white South Africans never do - and for his vegetarianism; but any lingering idea that John was a lifelong fighter for majority rule in South Africa gets short shrift from Sophie.

To Mr. McGuire, blending the past and the future to give music lovers what they want might provide the best hope for the music industry, helping it move beyond the lingering idea of music as a physical object to be sold.

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The ZUMIX Radio team met after class on Tuesday to discuss some lingering ideas and make some decisions.

One, the eastern countries must reject any lingering ideas about a "third way", such as a chimerical "market socialism" based on public ownership or worker self-management, and go straight for a western-style market economy.

Although there may be some lingering ideas that men are better judges of what looks right on a woman's body, it is also true that the qualities that determine whether a garment looks right — fit, proportion and taste — hold less value today than marketing and branding.

"Mapping Fictions" at the Good Luck Gallery is one of those great, double-strength shows whose work is as fresh and memorable as the larger, lingering ideas and questions it provokes.

Here (perhaps thanks to some lingering Marxist idea of a fair price?) it was just $40 a night, plus another $20 each day for decent buffet meals.

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