Overturning preconceptions about mental illness is the leitmotif of the eight-year-old Mind's Museum (museodellamente.it), which reopened this month after a high-tech overhaul by Studio Azzurro, a Milan-based art collective that works mostly with interactive and video environments.
But now Subcomandante Marcos, the balaclava-favouring, pipe-sucking rebel from Mexico, is set to overturn our preconceptions of the rabble-rousing library.
When I left home in 1976 to go to college in London, punk was kicking in, and overturning my preconceptions.
She regarded overturning such preconceptions as a patriotic duty, and was proud of the fact that notable European winemakers were investing in the region.
A unique sighting of a grey whale in the Mediterranean in May 2010 – the animal got as far as Israel – has overturned many preconceptions, with some scientists speculating that this much-hunted great whale – reduced to near extinction in the 20th century – is regaining ancient migratory routes.
It's relatively cheap, so perfect for those on a budget, and the sheer variety of its travellers was staggering: from European to American to Asian, from student to professional, from 21 to 40, it was an amiable jumble that overturned my preconception of the uni-lad gap-year cliche.
Now she's founded a company, Lovedesh, to overturn people's preconceptions (desh means country in Bengali, hence Bangladesh).
Few working critics can avoid getting outside their predilections and, if they possess any open-mindedness and imaginative sympathy at all, finding their sensibilities pried open, their preconceptions overturned, their ideas rendered broader and suppler, their perspective and, yes, their tastes rendered more diverse and heterogeneous.
Angus Wright Royal Shakespeare Company, 2008 My preconceptions of Shylock were overturned by playing him.
She shattered my preconceptions.
