Sentence examples for pernicious notion from inspiring English sources

To doll them up as metaphysical revelations, though, is to flirt with the pernicious notion that the self and the world can't be distinguished.

But they also spring from the pernicious notion that it is the job of the courts to punish and suppress those whom the state sees as its enemies.

Before going, I had thought that a more precise identification of the play with a particular country — South Africa, say, or Nigeria — would be preferable, the better to avoid the pernicious notion that Africa is a country.

Dr. Soetoro was also critical of the pernicious notion that the roots of poverty lie with the poor themselves and that cultural differences are responsible for the gap between less-developed countries and the industrialized West.

Before going, I had thought that a more precise identification of the play with a particular country South Africa, say, or Nigeria would be preferable, the better to avoid the pernicious notion that Africa is a country.

I suspect it is because of the lazy and pernicious notion, peddled and popularised by neoconservatives and Islamophobes, that not all Muslims may be terrorists, but certainly all terrorists are Muslims.

And for a smaller minority among those individuals, elements of the skit could play into the worst kind of ideas, even reinforcing pernicious notions of Jewish control of government in the vein of those routinely espoused by anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists and anti-Semites by suggesting that U.S. officials would even engage in public sex acts if asked to do so by Israel.

Equally pernicious is the notion, shared by members of both political parties, that corporate tax reform should be "revenue neutral" — meaning that it should simplify the code but not raise any taxes.

Sadly, the hospital's application reflects the pernicious but prevalent notion that any single building that is not a major historical landmark — or stands outside the historical mainstream — is unworthy of our protection.

Second, the idea that models only serve us to the extent that they make experimental predictions is, in my opinion, one of the more pernicious widely-held notions in biology today.

Conceptual Difficulties with Haecceitism More pernicious difficulties surround the notion of an individual essence itself, and in particular the notion of a haecceity.