Sentence examples for piece of received from inspiring English sources

That mantra had the air of a piece of received wisdom propping up the status quo.

It is a piece of received wisdom – the old yin and yang cliche – made devastatingly literal.

It is the first piece of received wisdom to deserve examination after Asia's catastrophe.Not that individuals have failed to respond generously to the disaster; quite the opposite.

One piece of received wisdom is that the soul goes from a place and the poorest are pushed out, but it's not that straightforward.

Streep did, however, throw a little water on the fire by adding: "There is a piece of received wisdom that says that the most creative people are often odd, or irritating, eccentric, damaged, difficult.

The only way the A.A.P. stood any chance of setting itself apart, Kejriwal understood, was if it visibly and methodically defied every piece of received wisdom in the playbook of Indian electioneering.

There are two pieces of received wisdom about Mark Rylance.

But he taught himself to read, using the Bible and Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha, learning verbal twists to apply to pieces of received wisdom.

The more you talk to Rylance, the more those two big pieces of received wisdom – the virtuosity and the eccentricity – do seem symbiotic.

B3 A CASE IN NEVADA -- The governor of Nevada said tests showed that a piece of mail received by a Microsoft office in Reno contained anthrax.

The 5 Whys is an attempt to identify root-cause by asking more probing and clarifying questions with each new piece of information received.