Sentence examples for misconception in the first from inspiring English sources

Although popular opinion links the consumption of eggs to increased cholesterol, many studies suggest that eggs are nowhere near as harmful as the breakfast meats often served alongside them, which may have led to the misconception in the first place.

It is a common misconception that the first lesbian kiss on British television was Anna Friel's passionate embrace on Brookside in the early 90s.

Here it must be stressed at the outset that Francis of Marchia was not a faithful Scotist, contrary to a common opinion based on misconceptions from early in the twentieth century.

The second exasperating misconception in the Guide, which is usually a syndrome of the citified fag, is that gay men and lesbians have nothing in common.

As victims fight to be believed and face a barrage of abuse for coming forward, powerful men continue to perpetuate the victim-blaming myths and misconceptions that make reporting so hard in the first place.

The cognitive background for emergence and overcoming of misconceptions were investigated before by Piaget in the first half of the twentieth century in his famous experiments asking children about movement of toy trains overtaking each other and disappearing in a tunnel for a while (Piaget 1998, 2000; Palmer 2007).

Busque is straightforward in addressing any misconceptions about why Grosse was brought on in the first place.

In "A Man of Misconceptions," the first general-interest biography of Kircher, Mr. Glassie draws on three decades of renewed scholarly interest in his work to deliver a stirring if sometimes backhanded defense.

The problem is that we bought into the misconception that we can ever truly control a situation or a person in the first place.

In fact, patterns-of-inheritance misconceptions represent the second most problematic conceptual category in genetics identified by Shaw et al. (2008).

The reason rests in the second great misconception: that the Earth is isolated.