Sentence examples for set of preconceptions from inspiring English sources

It should not be surprising, then, if even the most enlightened of Lincoln Center's officials find themselves without a fixed set of preconceptions for the redesign.

He describes his encounters, particularly those with public figures, as a kind of "poker game", coming to them as he does with his own set of preconceptions and expectations.

Marshall is alarmed even by the fact that laymen tended to form a set of preconceptions after reading newspaper headlines about the campaign in the Low Countries and France.

"I would like to see us enter a post-ideological era in which policies are based on pragmatic considerations rather than conformity to a set of preconceptions rooted in a rapidly vanishing past," Judge Richard Posner, appointed by Mr. Reagan to the federal appeals court in 1981, wrote in a recent blog posting.

Although I am now an American citizen with another passport that is not equally loved or despised in every corner of the world, it's another color that represents a completely different set of preconceptions -- some true, others entirely inaccurate.

At 14 years old I had already acquired a middle school-induced set of preconceptions fostered by rumours, misinformation, shame, and a vague sense of sexual tension I closely associated with "crushes," a foreign affliction that presented with unpleasant symptoms.

But we do know that when the director of a 1990s production of Shakespeare's play, who had cast a black actress in the role of Cleopatra, talked about emphasising her "earthiness" and "the kind of non-European regality which allows someone to sit on the floor", she was imposing yet another set of anachronistic preconceptions on to the image of the Hellenistic queen.

"We fought against a lot of preconceptions in this industry".

Set aside your preconceptions of madness and health.

"I started out with lots of preconceptions, almost all of which have been smashed," he says.

We must empty ourselves of preconceptions, suspend judgment, clear away clutter.