Sentence examples for the very conception from inspiring English sources

The very conception of the modern corporation is that it limits individual liability.

There's something in the very conception of "Margaret," in the themes it most ambitiously pursues, that defies perfection.

This kind of realism has been missing since the very conception of this war, and it is what led me to publicly oppose it in 2002".

His lifelong ambition was to establish abduction and induction firmly and permanently along with deduction in the very conception of logic each of them clearly distinguished from the other two, yet positively related to them.

She also suggests there could be a "white saviour" mentality implicitly at work in the very conception of the film that could depict brutality against women as a specific socio-cultural problem of India; and she objects to the title, which describes women as daughters rather than people in their own right.

Susan Sontag, in contrast, went from arguing, in the mid-'60s, that Riefenstahl's films "Triumph of the Will" and "Olympia" transcended "the categories of propaganda or even reportage" to concluding, a decade later, that the very conception of "Triumph of the Will" "negates the possibility of the filmmaker's having an aesthetic conception independent of propaganda".

Better to say that it is this very conception of what it means to be objective that marks Schama and Goodman as products of one particular moment in Jewish history.

Rather, these very conceptions of the self are gendered.

Many Latinos argue that the country's race categories — indeed, the government's very conception of identity — do not fit them.

These phenomena raise many ethical concerns, the most general of which may be this: how can static normative conceptions of the value of privacy be used to evaluate the SNS practices that are destabilizing those very conceptions?

Then, of course, there's the fact that our very conception of cinema is largely based on the ideas of the Cahiers du Cinéma critics of the nineteen-fifties and on the films they made as the French New Wave.