Sentence examples for overgeneralizations from inspiring English sources

Basing our notions of justice on overgeneralizations about classifications like age is ill advised, as is basing our principles of law on a world view.

They had adopted their own kind of overgeneralizations about "the Other," the West of the East.

These are overgeneralizations, of course.

While I certainly agree with the wish to avoid overgeneralizations and politically charged polarizations, and while I think the writings of the Kyoto School do need to be read critically in this regard, I am equally wary of a "globalization of thought" that amounts to a colonization of "non-Western" traditions by "Western" methods and categories of thinking.

Even if we ultimately justify their employment, our use of them remains critically informed by recognition of the limits of the terms and the overgeneralizations and exclusions they can foster.

For those familiar with his brand of confidently asserted overgeneralization, the book is about what you would expect.

If you answered Dad to No. 1 and Mom to No. 2, you have bought into a stereotype, the kind of overgeneralization that makes open-minded people squirm.

(Not a surprise that there was little complaint my overgeneralization of their people as "wonderful").

As Elshtain's stately summaries of Addams's pronouncements roll on, her voice winds around her subject's, creating odd moments of piety, homiletics and overgeneralization: "Without a mooring in a moral purpose, life scatters, falters, and dries up"; "The modern city degrades what should be exalted".

"Any lying president is Richard Nixon; any successful general is a potential George Washington," the book observes, with an accurate view of our processes of overgeneralization.

It was "narrowly targeted at the fault line between work and family -- precisely where sex-based overgeneralization has been and remains strongest".