Sentence examples for notion about what from inspiring English sources

"We are not going into this with any strong preconceived notion about what we might do," Mr. Falcon said.

The problem, it seems, is not so much with their sleep as it is with a common and mistaken notion about what constitutes a normal night's sleep.

"I hope I can use it to my advantage," said Mr. Casey, later adding that his own appearance forces people to reconsider their "notion about what a Muslim looks like, what a Muslim talks like, what a Muslim acts like".

We're driven primarily by a scientific and fundamental curiosity about how to play in this nanoscale world and not by a particular application or narrow notion about what these systems are good for.

In this story, a fictitious Beijing-based Western newspaper correspondent admits that he hasn't a clue what's really going on in the congress's secret meetings: "Neither he nor any of his colleagues had any notion about what is actually happening behind the walled compounds of Zhongnanhai and Beidahe, where the key decisions are usually made about the upcoming leadership transition".

Validity so understood is simply a modal notion, a notion about what has to be the case.

"She didn't have romantic notions about what life could bring her.

Meeting Japanese people who had been raised elsewhere overturned her notions about what being Japanese meant.

"We came with preconceived notions about what we would find in Alabama," she said.

The menu revealed that Manhattan restaurateurs have odd notions about what constitutes supper.

It churns up historic notions about what kind of black femaleness is welcoming.