Sentence examples for received understandings from inspiring English sources

It has certainly interested plenty of writers, but it does seem to be a special interest of yours — gender boundaries, where one sex blurs into another, and the moments when our received understandings about what a boy is, and what a girl is, are confused.

The article challenges such received understandings of Cuala by considering the press as a gendered publishing enterprise: one run by a woman, employing only women, and designed to create work and economic independence for Irish working girls.

Just as chord changes, bridges, and refrains both create and deny audience expectations, both reward and frustrate close listening, both entrench sounds and render them ephemera, Waldrep's music intercedes between our received understandings of language in a way that's intensely pleasurable.

But, starting in 1998, he began to uncover the most tantalizing of Little Boy's secrets — a finding that completely revised the received understanding of how the Hiroshima bomb worked.

The book caused a stir in the US because of the way it turned on its head much of the received understanding of the American Revolution and the US founding fathers.

In it, he praised Eberty, whom he called "an original and ingenious person," for questioning the received understanding of time for grasping, as Einstein had done with relativity, that a seemingly stable feature of reality was neither unidirectional nor absolute.

In it, he praised Eberty, whom he called "an original and ingenious person," for questioning the received understanding of time — for grasping, as Einstein had done with relativity, that a seemingly stable feature of reality was neither unidirectional nor absolute.

The importance of received understanding for Gadamer is not its historical provenance but how it opens us towards and engages us with issues in a community of debate.

The occupational health services had generally offered good support and the informants felt that they had received understanding for their tough work situation and symptoms of ill health.

Mr Chen emerged from the US embassy in Beijing, where he spent six days, after receiving "understandings" about his future.

"We can prepare an agreement that would satisfy both sides and receive understanding of the world community," he was quoted as saying by the Interfax-Military news agency here.