Sentence examples for thin conception from inspiring English sources

This is a particularly thin conception of legitimate authority.

Hume might agree with this conclusion, supposing a sufficiently thin conception of 'faculty'faculty

So described, genuine theism involves what we may call a "thin" conception of God.

First, the thick conception that is, of trustworthiness as a virtue is not meant to displace the thin conception.

Their thin conception of human welfare may be one reason some Mohists saw a life of altruistic self-sacrifice as the way of the sages.

But rather than cling to a virtue theory, why not just endorse the thin conception of trustworthiness (i.e. "specific trustworthiness"), according to which X is trustworthy for me just in case I can trust X? Two things can be said.

Some analyses do this in part by providing thin conceptions of what liking amounts to.

By putting forward a thinner conception of nationhood without eliminating its cultural dimension, the liberal nationalist view can be said to undercut the familiar contrast between 'civic' and 'cultural' conceptions of the nation.

The unruffled blandness that Pitt lends Max and the brittle gloss that Cotillard brings to Marianne are pure functions of the paper-thin conceptions of the characters as realized by Zemeckis and Knight.

I still thought Susan became too thin a conception, and more shrill and shrewish than necessary, and, as Emily, Ruth Warrick was all pursed lips — a stereotype of refinement.

What finally sinks the film, however, is the treatment of the supporting characters, who seem not only thin in conception (Singer, McQuarrie, and the co-writer Nathan Alexander elided the list of real conspirators, yet there are still too many taken on board here) but also dangerously overplayed.