Sentence examples for prevailing academic wisdom from inspiring English sources

The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis was contrary to prevailing academic wisdom, and was effectively ignored.

The prevailing academic wisdom was that post-slavery, Brazil evolved into a racial democracy with "no sharp lines of racial demarcation," while the U.S. saw reconstruction, Jim Crow, racial violence and socioeconomic inequities.

That agenda, which up till now, has been of little interest to either university or industry because the prevailing academic wisdom has considered the cultural and environmental value of this third mission (into networks, attributes and capacities) to be a venture neither fundamental enough, nor sufficiently strategic to warrant particular attention (Deakin, 2010a, 2010b).

(See "Prevailing Academic View on Compliance Flexibility under §111 of the Clean Air Act").

Dr. Austrian was unconvinced by the prevailing medical wisdom.

Sobriety was not the prevailing stylistic wisdom this year.

According to the city's prevailing culinary wisdom, eating local is the highest good.

This approach is the opposite of the prevailing educational wisdom, famously pioneered by Mossbourne Academy in Hackney, east London, that what kids like those in Zafirakou's class need is not silly ideas about freedom and creativity, but old-fashioned structure, discipline and academic rigour.

The prevailing publishing wisdom of the time had it that SF readers liked their stories short.

The prevailing local wisdom is that Mr. Bush will eventually go to Washington, leaving Mr. Perry as governor.

Printing money is what the prevailing economic wisdom recommends (with the Austrian School of Economics loudly recommending otherwise).