Sentence examples for stubborn myth from inspiring English sources

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The last and most stubborn myth is that of irreversibility.

The second stubborn myth, recycled on the BBC this week, is that the demise of the coal industry was simply a matter of profit and loss.

"I don't think that is the case," she says, though she gets the emails from readers who want to believe this stubborn myth of the tormented genius, want the pain to be a prerequisite for the creativity, want to turn Wallace into some literary James Dean.

The lobby-level restaurant is called Refuel, a name inspired by a stubborn myth that the hotel building was once a parking garage.

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Stubborn myths about American social mobility.

The argument that capital punishment is a deterrent against people committing murder is one of the most stubborn myths about the death penalty.

And yet for decades the Popular Front line that the war was a simple black-and-white struggle between democracy and fascism remained one of the century's most stubborn myths.

Both approaches aim to bury the stubborn official myth that Germany is not a country of immigration.

Giving him the benefit of doubt, I wonder, Is this ugly, stubborn rape myth shielding him from unpleasant emotions?

Especially stubborn was the myth of El Greco's astigmatism -- that he painted the world as he actually saw it -- leading at least one art historian to note that in that case all his patrons in Toledo must have had it, too.

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