Sentence examples for original notion from inspiring English sources
What was the original notion behind it?
I have to confess, it's not an entirely original notion.
Mr. Arad's original notion was to place enormous sunken pools where the twin towers stood.
Setting a whodunit in an amateur writers' workshop is hardly an original notion.
"My initial career conformed to my original notion of authorship," she says.
The original notion, Mr. Muti said, was to find a performance site closer to ground zero, perhaps outdoors.
In the original, the notion of the Flood simply "took its seat again," the bellflowers are just "moving," and the flowers don't "peek," they just "look").
The president's original, flawed notion was that prescription drug coverage should not be provided through the traditional Medicare program, which insures a vast majority of America's elderly.
The original expedition notion leaned toward Lewis and Clark, but Ms. Dubuc and Mr. Burnett quickly realized the terrain of the American Northwest had changed far too much since those two men's journey more than 200 years ago.
(This passage offers some examples of how Ashbery sometimes squeezes too hard. In the original, the notion of the Flood simply "took its seat again," the bellflowers are just "moving," and the flowers don't "peek," they just "look").
These days, when mass mailings often carry a presidential scrawl fashioned by a machine from a template of the original, the notion of a bond between a person and his signed name, as between a person and his word, is becoming as quaint as the tale of George Washington and the cherry tree.
