Sentence examples for the received idea from inspiring English sources

The received idea has been it doesn't sell well.

— overlooks the living experience for the received idea, dutifully noted but cursory and inert.

The received idea is that feminist harridans attack "traditional" mums and make them feel bad.

For Flaubert, the cliché and the received idea are beasts to be toyed with and then slain.

In that sense, the received idea of 'literary fiction' is put to real use in his work.

Perhaps the only trait he shares with the received idea of his chosen profession is a love of reading and knowledge.

As one of the received ideas of the west, it seems well-nigh impossible to eradicate.

Her immigrant background left her less susceptible to the received ideas of Brazilian society.

In her 1978 essay "Illness As Metaphor," Susan Sontag wrote about the received ideas that surrounded tuberculosis in the nineteenth century, and cancer in the twentieth.

Or not their thinking, exactly, but their attempts to disrupt the received ideas about any number of things, including race and what constitutes a society.

He waxed lyrical about those men, de Gaulle above all, and their courageous readiness to "rupture with the received ideas and the established order when they lead France toward decline".