Sentence examples for notion like from inspiring English sources

Shame has become a quaint chivalric notion, like honor, a thing of another American time).

But this notion, like the diesel fix itself, was a sham.

YOUNG lawyers in love is somehow a comical notion, like battlefield dentists.

I suspect that Calder himself would have gotten a kick out of the notion — like Bader, he was a cat person.

The vagueness of the notion, like that of the supernatural halo he discerns behind the grinning phiz of Mozart, hints at an uncertainty for which rhetoric must make sonorous, empty amends.

Representative Bill Johnson, Republican of Ohio, wonders why Washington "politicians" like Charlie Wilson, his Democratic opponent and a former House member, "don't understand a simple notion like accountability," as if Mr. Wilson were among those lawmakers who now vex the nation.

The notion that "like begets like" was already current in biblical times.

The ideas are never important or even really ideas, more notions, like the notions in advertising.

Other notions, like i.o.u.'s and scrip, so far are only that — ideas.

For novelists like Thackeray, she observed, expressing abstract notions like truth posed serious challenges.

Trained in psychiatry, he deploys a handful of Freudian notions, like narcissism.