Call it "visual chauvinism," if you like, but it's a preconception held by many marketing people.
Many black aspiring ballerinas run up against preconceptions -- held by teachers, company directors, competition judges, choreographers, and fellow dancers -- about what kind of dance they're best suited to.
The decision to approach analysis in this way was an attempt to remove any potential preconceptions that may have been held by members of the research team to increase the objectivity of the coding process.
Held by the Library of Congress.
Training Fellowship held by GT.
We met regularly to challenge each others' emerging interpretations and encourage reflexive awareness of any preconceptions we held about the topic.
It should hold by itself.
And it goes to the heart of one of Proust's main themes: that we are held prisoner by preconceptions, by habit and by the normal machinery of memory, which provides only a pale, distorted record of experiences.
Such are the preconceptions that hold sway before France 2007.
His next project is yet another movie to which the Hall H crowd will bring deeply held preconceptions: a Superman franchise-reboot produced by Christopher Nolan.
What they have in common is a coy playfulness — a desire to goad viewers into rethinking their surroundings, to acknowledge the absurdities of closely held preconceptions.
