Sentence examples for received idea from inspiring English sources

The received idea has been it doesn't sell well.

— overlooks the living experience for the received idea, dutifully noted but cursory and inert.

The received idea is that feminist harridans attack "traditional" mums and make them feel bad.

A received idea would have the "limeys" as uptight and hidebound, as against the laid-back, easygoing Yanks.

For Flaubert, the cliché and the received idea are beasts to be toyed with and then slain.

It does not conform to any received idea of the Booker novel: it is not capacious or exotic.

Hurston also happens to challenge received ideas of family drama.

In the sixties, politically engaged women painters began challenging received ideas about gender roles in art.

Again, the Brentano, augmented by the cellist Michael Kannen, pushed away received ideas.

Arrayed on specially-built shelves, often in great numbers, they deal almost exclusively in received ideas.

Her immigrant background left her less susceptible to the received ideas of Brazilian society.