Sentence examples for old stigma from inspiring English sources

"We're beyond the old stigma -- trailer trash and all that.

I think the old stigma may be lessened, but it is not entirely gone".

For either artistic or economic reasons, the old stigma against commercial music has disappeared.

"The old stigma of getting a place through Clearing is going," she said.

Certainly the growing black middle class sees little shame in the old stigma of slave origins and instead uses it as an opportunity to clarify its own identity.

Still, the old stigma hasn't exactly been stamped out; suburban chefs say they sometimes feel they have to battle for respect in the culinary world.

One of the problems is that the old myths, the old stigmas, are still deeply ingrained.

Yet for all the resemblance of teenage hookup culture to a 70's singles bar, the old stigmas and prejudices haven't disappeared altogether.

Re "On the Left Hand, Answers Aren't Easy" (18 and Under, March 8): As we learn more about left-handedness, old stigmas and misperceptions continue to fade.

PAGE 23 BEYOND THE RESERVATION With old stigmas among American Indians about sending a child off the reservation eroding, Lodge Grass High School near Hardin, Mont., has lost more than a third of its enrollment since 2000, and nearby Hardin High School is now 70percentt American Indian.

"But old stigmas die hard.