Sentence examples for the conventional idea from inspiring English sources

Prismatic, polymorphous, scintillating and starkly angular, they defy the conventional idea of a boxy or stepped New York skyscraper.

Wade is working in what by now is a pretty venerable tradition, against the conventional idea of painting".

That experience led David to question the conventional idea of a simple split between hunter-gatherers and farmers, and to challenge it in a series of publications.

The conflict with the conventional idea that the universe had a specific origin billions of years in time past was absolute.

The new research challenges the conventional idea that this was the specific site from which people crossed into America, but does not exclude the possibility that they did so from other sites.

And as New York has demonstrated all too glaringly in recent years, abject obedience to the conventional idea of context may violate the expanded context of contemporary urban life.

But there may be a mathematical, as well as biological, basis to the conventional ideas of the beautiful.

But the external justifications keep coming, and the best love songs, he's inclined to think, mock rather than serve the conventional ideas of affection and attraction.

Ms. Allen, he said, "was much less interested in literalism and would jump from the middle of a scene to the middle of a scene, not bound to the conventional ideas about how you told a movie story".

It's ambitious indeed to try to overthrow in one go the conventional ideas and images that have accumulated since 1874, when Francis Galton first set the words "nature" and "nurture" against each other.

To capture the conventional ideas about genetic information under this theory, genes are treated as source variables and environments are treated as channel conditions.