"recurring notion" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to an idea or thought that occurs repeatedly. Example: One recurring notion in the novel was the theme of redemption. Despite the character's efforts to move on, the notion of seeking forgiveness for past mistakes continued to resurface throughout the story.
Mr. McCormick is not as successful at marshaling his themes, like the recurring notion of disposability (of old buildings, dead relatives, girlfriends) into something coherent.
It is a point of pride with McOndoites that, as here, the kids in their novels carry "the latest Nokia," central events take place at an Internet cafe called Portal to Reality and Thomas Pynchon's recurring notion of entropy is at once honored and updated in a reference to a Web site called attrition.org.org
For Harlem-based writer Ja'han Jones, this was a recurring notion ever since his parents gave him the "necessary" and "traumatic" talk about the realities of black people being targeted by the police.
In the rarefied community that sets many of the terms of national policy making, a recurring theme is the notion that the federal government is subsidizing the "good life" of the nation's elderly at the expense of needed investments in young people, in infrastructure and in innovation.
When the notion recurs, in the last story in the book, the context is vast and cosmic.
If there's any artistic unconscious or second level to "The Last Jedi," it's in a recurring plot point involving the very notion of mind control.
Recurring proximity refers to Teubner's notion of "perturbation channels" in which "impulses for change are not only occasional, punctual and one-sided but merge into a reciprocal perturbation" [13].
The notion of a brief, recurring melodic figure to anchor a composition and seduce the listener goes back to classical music – where it was more commonly referred to as an ostinato.
Another recurring theme of the panel was the notion that makers should embrace niches.
Transformations and metamorphosis are recurring themes throughout my work, often exploring notions of contrast when things collide and coexist: animal versus human, urban versus rural, traditional craft versus new technologies".
The era of austerity has turned the notion of principals' autonomy into a recurring exercise in deciding what to do without.
