Sentence examples for unfortunate ideas from inspiring English sources

Mermoz was a stellar and unflappable pilot, a better pilot than Saint-Exupery, but he also happened to have a few unfortunate ideas about fascism.

Lincoln was thoroughly a man of his times, and while he staunchly opposed slavery — on moral grounds and because it made competition in the marketplace unfair for poor white men — for most of his life he harbored fixed and unfortunate ideas about race.

Although Goldwater's apparent lack of personal racism did not make his policies less repugnant to King, nonetheless he understood that Goldwater's unfortunate ideas were a function of his long held libertarian principles concerning the size and the role of government.

They also underscore the unfortunate idea of painting as a man's activity and women as artists' models, girlfriends or sex partners.

It didn't help that this dud of a title game followed a dud of an N.F.L. weekend, which SI.com's Peter King hopes will squelch the unfortunate idea of expanding the playoffs and producing more duds.

These gave way to the unfortunate idea of cheap credit or buy now and pay later.

"As Americans, we have the unfortunate idea that we should and need to learn more about the world, but it's not a priority. .

It divides the site into four zoning quadrants: a pleasing reminder of its placement in the X Plan, but an idea with unfortunate theme park connotations.

The mountain range has unfortunate theme park connotations, and the design seems overpacked with unformed ideas.

This is unfortunate, because the ideas that Nagel unfolds ought to be discussed by non-specialists with an interest in the arts, politics, and — quite literally, in this context — the humanities.

It is, therefore, unfortunate that the idea that genes affect behaviour is the subject of much heated and confused discussion.