Sentence examples for received ideas about from inspiring English sources

In Moved to Tears, Rebecca Bedell overturns received ideas about sentimental art.

Greene's very readable survey demonstrates the ways that received ideas about language can lead us astray.

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

It's a familiar genre, the true-crime documentary that overturns received ideas about a notorious case.

He challenges received ideas about performance with humour and ingenuity - and he's a marvellous mover.

An under-sung artist upends received ideas about race and history.

In the end one feels that Mother was right: Sebastian and the other survivors of the Lane family have a vitality that not only holds them all together but also surpasses any received idea about what's "normal".

And just think of the scandalised reaction to Picasso's radical 1906-7 work Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, which smashed pretty much every received idea about the representation of three dimensions onto a flat canvas, paving the way not only for Cubism but to the possibility of total abstraction in art.

But six years after those two groups reached their commercial peak, Bowie embodied something even more profound: as evidenced by the awed memories of people party to the legendary occasion when he played Starman on Top of the Pops, a self-expression so thoroughgoing that it defied received ideas not just about sexuality but gender – in, let us not forget, 1972.

Nehring takes on our complaisance, our received ideas, our sloppy assumptions about our most important connections, and for that she deserves our admiration.

In her 1978 essay "Illness As Metaphor," Susan Sontag wrote about the received ideas that surrounded tuberculosis in the nineteenth century, and cancer in the twentieth.