Sentence examples for pervasive ideas from inspiring English sources
The phrase 'pervasive ideas' is correct and usable in written English
It is usually used to refer to a concept or belief that is widely accepted and deeply ingrained in a particular culture or society. For example: 'In our culture, the idea of gender roles is pervasive.'
For a long time, under the influence of the formidable Lewis Namier, the historian of Britain's eighteenth-century Parliament, the pervasive ideas in the political life of the period were held to depend on clans and clan relations, not systems of thought.
In corralling all of our preposterous critical fetishes into a single, nonsensical narrative, Lurie is, of course, writing a kind of meta-commentary on the ways in which we assess and value so-called outsider art — that Pontiac's characteristics (all of which point, in one way or another, to misshapen yet pervasive ideas of authenticity) are so precise and absurd is also what makes them funny.
Understanding children in these ways opens many powerful possibilities for their learning and removes ideas about limitations to children's thinking based on outdated but pervasive ideas about children's development, such as age and stage theories.
Instead we have these pervasive ideas about what it means to be old".
You know, there's this pervasive idea in biology that I think is wrong.
"There's a pervasive idea among clinicians and patients that a new drug or device is going to make things better," Dr. Lidz noted.
Even as he explodes the notion that volunteers won the war, he underscores an equally pervasive idea that the actions of Congress and the American Revolution were one and the same.
"I can't help but feel the whole thing plays into the pervasive idea of trans characters as victims and freaks, destined to be oppressed by a world that doesn't understand them," Tom Hawking wrote on Flavorwire.
The answer has far less to do with evolution than with the ways women are shamed for expressing aggressive desire and with the pervasive idea that women who pursue their own satisfaction are asking to be raped.
It seems sensible to assume that at least some part of the gender disparity in suicide rates may be connected to the pervasive idea that men must be tough and strong, that boys don't cry and it's shameful for men to talk about their feelings or reach out for help.
Second, there was the pervasive idea, a holdover of pre-Darwininan thinking, that classifications could be based on similarity even at the expense of what we think we know about phylogenetic relationships.
