Sentence examples for muddled notion from inspiring English sources

The idea that it's strange to ask a woman to coach a man at tennis is presumably based on a muddled notion that Mauresmo would be unable to understand the different pace or skills required in the men's game (even if the same delineations would have her down as part of the "more empathetic" gender).

Unfortunately, a muddled notion called the efficient market hypothesis refuses to go away.

Writing on British foreign policy choices in this month's issue of The World Today, Christopher Hill complained that "for too long we have muddled through with inherited notions of indispensability and grandiosity".

The regulator is condemned to muddle through.The notion that the world can just regulate its way out of crises is thus an illusion.

Never send the signal that muddles up their notion that "being honest will lead to punishment, so why bother?" In today's world of cutthroat competition, being truthful might not always be practical.

We had muddled through on the vague notion that we'd each do our bit.

We could reject the muddle-headed notion that everyone getting better at a sport is part of some shared aim – that we want the standard of football, cricket, rugby, snooker or bowls to be higher overall.

The radical eliminativists reject the very notion of consciousness as muddled or wrong headed and claim that the conscious/nonconscious distinction fails to cut mental reality at its joints (Wilkes 1984, 1988).

The question of the remedy was so muddled that Breyer even put forth the notion that the Court should ask the parties for an entirely new set of briefs on it.

And there is no evidence from decades of marriage-promotion programmes that the government can persuade people to get or stay hitched, a finding that will not surprise anyone who has ever actually been married.As for the notion that inequality is to blame, that is muddled too.

Translations are provided on a screen, and so we learn that there are plenty of Thais today whose notions of Sita and other characters are similarly muddled.