Among sex workers, we call it the "whorearchy"—the idea that while, say, a professional dominatrix may feel that she is a "better class of sex worker" than an escort because she doesn't have sex with her clients, an escort may feel she has higher standards because she doesn't have to be emotionally involved with her clients.
Mr. Rapp's bodily-fluid-drenched gorefest pounds home the idea that while bacteria and viruses may have been eradicated, the disease that is mankind still wreaks havoc.
Our analysis pivots around the idea that while there is an active trading market for N.F.L. draft picks, the market places too high a value on picking early.
The ads convey the idea that while the company's cable service did not always live up to expectations in the past, it has become better.
Mr. Lacroix managed to finesse the idea that while these clothes were wearable, they had little to do with the external world.
Animating that vision is a kind of pragmatic utopianism: the idea that while good design may not be sufficient to save the world, it is certainly necessary.
But I can't get past the idea that while Bill Clinton was still in law school he believed he already knew every baby boomer worth knowing.
It is in the idea that while God reveals many secrets of his creation through science, chances are very good that human understanding will never unravel them all.
Ms. Lehman said she's working to instill the idea that while measures like DOMA and Don't Ask Don't tell might be culturally conservative, they're not legally conservative; they're examples of intrusive government overreach.
The new material in the show bears out the idea that while Mr. Daisey may well have misled audiences in describing the show as nonfiction, the larger truths about the treatment of Foxconn workers are indisputable.
I see a neat irony in the idea that while a new generation has rediscovered, via Balmain, the sharp shoulders and tough chic of the 1980s, the androgyny introduced in that era has been refreshed.
