Sentence examples for superficial assumption from inspiring English sources

This should be contrasted with the superficial assumption, popular in many circles throughout antiquity, that Homer must have lived not much later than the Trojan War about which he sang.

They have made a whole book reaffirming my every fear and superficial assumption I had about how crammed with cock-ends L.A. is.

Therefore, even before people are tortured, there is a superficial assumption of their lack of humanity, and a justification that divides people into categories: human and inhuman, the former that cannot be tortured and the latter that can.

In many ways, her work highlights exactly the kind of superficial assumptions people make about women based on image alone.

Partly it's that she seems to write about women's experience without trying to find anything redemptive in it, and in doing so she peels away superficial assumptions.

The implications for policy are that policy-makers should re-examine superficial assumptions that technical knowledge is intrinsically more valuable in stimulating innovation than is social knowledge, particularly in the contemporary business environment which is oriented so substantially to consumer goods with pronounced social and cultural dimensions.

If we dig a little deeper than the superficial assumptions we made as progressives about "Hope" and "Change," there are lessons to learn from the 2008 Obama movement.

It tested a player's aptitude for superficial judgments, while reinforcing assumptions about race as a designation to be guessed at.

Darwin thus emphasised human unity and dwelt upon superficial differences, while acquiescing in the contemporary assumption that some races were superior to others.

This argument rests on the assumption that preposition subcategory options are superficial syntactic phenomena which are not represented by argument structure proper.

Someone's voice, mannerisms, or other superficial features can cause you to jump to assumptions.