Sentence examples for public notions from inspiring English sources

With their support and the slow but growing awareness of American Indian art, indigenous artists continue to struggle -- against public notions of their work as souvenir, against a general lack of knowledge about their art.

"Over the years, we've stayed true to our mission, and that is to challenge public notions of what it means to be clean". While it's unlikely that Mother Dirt will become a huge success in mass market terms, there's no denying that Aganovic's aim to create a conversation is working.

Friends and detractors generally agree that this tall, soft-spoken man from Waco, Tex., did more than anyone else in the late 20th century to broaden public notions about the vocabulary of theater, and to keep alive Wagner's avant-gardist dream of a Gesamtkunstwerk that would demolish the borders between the discrete arts.

Public notions of transparency also mean the days of staying out of the limelight have gone.

I ask her whether she believes the public notion of her character is an accurate one.

But Eleanor Holmes Norton, then an American Civil Liberties Union attorney, was intrigued by their cause, in part because it presented an opportunity to expand the public notion of civil rights.

The public notion of a new, eco-minded artistic and culinary conurbation in northwest Brooklyn may be less than a decade old, but it's already old hat on TV, where the latest show to exploit it is MTV's "I Just Want My Pants Back," beginning on Thursday.

This helped foster a public notion of cover-up.

In the last decade, language trees have experienced a strong revival, especially in the public notion of linguistics as reflected in popular scientific literature and in articles addressed to a not exclusively linguistic readership 1.

The sometimes enormous population size fluctuations of slugs (Godan 1979) may have in boom times additionally contributed to the public notion of a suddenly (over- abundant slug over- abundantgin.

These practices shape the public notion that former child soldiers are 'rewarded' for the atrocities committed, and moreover, that their civilian victims are not recognized nor 'compensated', enhancing sentiments of injustice [ 79].