(Really? Smart? Hirst?) And then occasionally dealers or even artists themselves are discovered discreetly propping up prices at auction to maintain this rosy notion.
To maintain the notion untarnished, countries like Mexico and Venezuela, for example, have turned down offers of American assistance after natural disasters, and Chile's government, though full of officials who were persecuted while Chile was under military rule, repeatedly cited sovereignty in demanding that Britain release Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
The status updates of the average music lover in Iran is the same as the status update of the average music lover in Scranton ("Cee-lo sucks!") This leveling is dangerous to those who would keep it secret in order to maintain the notion we are intrinsically different and that our differences will never allow us to see eye-to-eye.
We therefore cannot help but maintain the notion that Brdm2 represents a functional aberrant hypomorphic allele but not a null allele.
Similarly, it had become impossible, except at the price of intolerably ad hoc hypotheses, to maintain the notions of absolute time and of absolute simultaneity.
Still, too many of us have been indoctrinated with religious concepts against homosexuality along with notions that the Quran, Sharia and the prophet's example are all perfect and consider it a religious obligation to maintain these notions.
The fourth, most permanent shell was designed and built in 1929, consisting of panels over a steel frame weighing 55 tons, maintaining the notion of concentric arches that became a signature of the Bowl.
Setting aside the likes of "Paris Je T'Aime," the themed omnibus film appealingly maintains the notion that an all-star team of adventurous filmmakers will have both marketing appeal and formal éclat.
Yet despite the fact that he knew that anyone who wanted to could read his journal -- and that a few friends did, leaving comments at the ends of his posts -- he also maintained the notion that what he was doing was private.
In this regard Bridgman was closer to the strand of logical positivism represented by Moritz Schlick (1882 1936), who insisted on maintaining the notion of direct experience as the final arbiter of knowledge.
