Sentence examples for unwelcome idea from inspiring English sources

Resolutely pro-choice myself, as a new mother I had a moment of looking down at the snuffling, purplish creature I'd spawned, and feeling an unwelcome idea form in my head: "If I love my baby so much, how can abortion be right?" This thought stayed with me and played on me until eventually I mentioned it to my own mum.

Laughing at the weirdness of the flat earth believers became a way of pushing out the unwelcome idea that they might actually be right.

Shielding students from unwelcome ideas was unhealthy for the workforce and the democratic commonweal, they wrote.

Not surprisingly, some civil and religious authorities attempted to control the dissemination of unwelcome ideas through increasingly strict censorship.

For example, in the obsessive-compulsive condition, which refers to persistent unwelcome ideas or recurrent irresistible urges to perform certain acts, such as incessant hand washing, the defense maneuvers are called isolation and displacement.

But while much of the online propaganda was previously thought to involve attacks on unwelcome ideas or the defence of government policy, the study suggests most pro-party stooges are not expected to engage in debate or argument at all.

I crushed my unwelcome ideas about Jude, but it wasn't easy.

When unwelcome ideas are decried in the language of pain and injury, the impulse to suppress them -- rather than to challenge and debate them -- can be irresistible.

Silence can be caused by fear, by the desire to avoid conveying bad news or unwelcome ideas, and by normative and social pressures that exist in groups [ 6, 7].

On the other hand, the government has also criticized advertising as a conduit for both fraud and unwelcome foreign ideas.

(The feeling is mutual, since shadow cabinet veterans of the Blair-Brown years often feel their contributions are unwelcome and their ideas ignored).