Updike, like many authors, dreaded becoming a biographical subject: the notion "repulsed" him, he wrote.
Rather, this film, an exception in Rohmer's filmography and his philosophical system, takes as its subject the notion of society's exceptions — in virtue and vice alike.
A radical position, advocated by Peter Geach, is that these debates, as usually conducted, are void for lack of a subject matter: the notion of absolute identity they presuppose has no application; there is only relative identity.
Abortion rights and choices relating to the environment, too, are subject to the notion that to the victor belong the spoils.
The movie's subject is the notion of liberation, one that's as much aesthetic, philosophical, and emotional as it is practical and political.
Mr. Kanwar, who is Indian born, takes political oppression in Myanmar as his subject, underscoring the notion that another society's oppression is really ours too.
Brockmeier takes his inspiration from fairy tales and science fiction, but his real subject is the notion that life is an incomprehensible condition (a phrase borrowed from G. K. Chesterton) that we are always on the verge of comprehending.
In the Ivy League, where the university presidents sometimes exert rigorous control of sports teams and can grow suspicious of too much athletic success, there may be no more prickly subject than the notion that athletes receive unduly preferential consideration in the admissions process.
Motivating the subject is the notion that dynamic equations on time scales can build bridges between continuous and discrete mathematics.
Motivating the subject is the notion that dynamic equations on time scales can build bridges between continuous and discrete equations.
Central in Rescher's account, as laid out in Rescher (1973), his most influential book on the subject, is the notion of a truth-candidate.
