Sentence examples for questioning assumptions from inspiring English sources

"The level of questioning assumptions is uniquely Googly," Mr. Bock said.

The artist views his work as questioning assumptions of photography as truth, and also as stirring up received ideas about authority, order, discipline and orthodoxy.

The developments left many investors questioning assumptions about how bad things would get as a result of rising mortgage defaults and falling home prices.

In another entry, Kim mentions Wittgenstein again, first quarreling with the philosopher's contention that the sky is "lighter than white paper," then conceding that "he does, however, have me questioning assumptions about matte and shiny.

At an industry event on market structure last Thursday, the acting director of trading and markets at the S.E.C., John Ramsay, talked about "the importance of questioning assumptions that have led to the system we have".

Although Mr. Schaefer, 41, often touches on some of music's most ancient traditions, his 18 years at the helm of "New Sounds" have been about sifting through music's present, making connections between seemingly disparate styles and questioning assumptions about what constitutes "serious" music.

For more than a century artists across the board have been questioning fundamental assumptions about art.

Thom was a shy, somewhat reserved man, who liked to gently prod his colleagues into questioning their assumptions.

Lord Turner has been questioning previous assumptions that the liquidity of markets and innovative financial products are both intrinsically good things.

Washington promotes tactical brilliance framed by strategic conformity the facility to outmaneuver one's counterpart in a discussion, without questioning fundamental assumptions.

Earlier in the evening, I saw him at a bookstore in Central London, coolly questioning the assumptions of the predominantly white British audience.