But I read and nurtured notions of being a great writer.
Livable and literate, the city nurtured the notion that growing does not stop with being a grown-up.
But Mr. Pinchbeck tries to nurture the notion that this change doesn't have to be negative; it could instead be a global consciousness-raising that embraces one-with-nature ideas from the counterculture handbook.
On the job he began to nurture his notion of unalloyed self-interest as the path to ethical behavior.
It nurtured the pernicious notion that population mobility is a zero-sum game: that those who come to this country are a bunch of freeloaders, depriving indigenous Britons of jobs, school places, housing and healthcare.
His size and speed and general athleticism have drawn comparisons to Bo Jackson, one of those baseball players who swiftly obliterated any notion nurtured by fans that the game played with their buddies after work really has anything in common with the one played in the major leagues.
He pooh-poohed the notion nurtured by Daschle, Senator Ted Kennedy (Democrat-Massachusetts) and others that Bush's tax cut brought on the recession: "This economic slowdown had begun before we passed the tax cut, and most of it hasn't even gone into effect".
But Sir Howard says that Sony is intent on pursuing its long-nurtured notion of melding entertainment with the consumer electronics business, a strategy he said the company's executives would amplify this Thursday at an investor conference.
Karl Heinz Kind, who heads Interpol's Stolen Works of Art unit, scoffed at the romantic, cinematic notions nurtured by "The Thomas Crown Affair," which featured a stolen Monet, that rich collectors are behind art thefts.
The current state of health care in America reminds me of my favorite quote by science fiction writer Isaac Asimov: "Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'".
Understanding this notion nurtures a closer rapport with newly made acquaintances.
