Sentence examples for very idea itself from inspiring English sources

You could attack the sort of behavior, the way people went about realizing Arab unity, but nobody dared before to question the very idea itself, the legitimacy of the concept.

Politicians and journalists called it an assault against the country's very idea of itself.

Once again, the country's very idea of itself will have to be reimagined too.

The new generation of denialists aren't creating new, alternative orthodoxies so much as obliterating the very idea of orthodoxy itself.

But the very idea of innovation itself has a history, and we must ask when it became both meaningful and important to differentiate newly invented instruments—as well as those tending toward obsolescence from other instruments.

And the Internet's hall of mirrors – wherein everyone suddenly had the authority that Newsweek once had, flattening the very idea of authority itself – helped put that out of business in the first place.

Not every Supreme Court decision has this monumental symbolic effect — but the Boumediene case was guaranteed to be seen as either a victory or a defeat for the very idea of law itself.

Perhaps it was a deconstruction on the very idea of virality itself: it's the Internet that has too many cooks, and all of us, together, with our sharing and repeated clever comments and urge to be the first to share what thousands of others have already shared, have spoiled the broth.

This is one of the moments in Coetzee's work where something stirs; where an expression succeeds which very rarely appears in English-language literature, and tends to sound off-key when it does - an expression of love which is not love for a person, but a tenderness, an empathy, with the very idea of life itself.

There have been plenty of irrational secular ideologies (Nazism, and other extreme nationalisms come to mind), a form of secularism (postmodernism) has eroded the very idea of truth itself, and secularism is as grounded in faith (in Humanity, in Progress, in Reason etc) as religious belief.

In its innovative methodology and its unprecedented attention to the productive interplay between the audience, the book as a material artifact, and the text as an immaterial entity, The Afterlife of Character, 1726-1825 offers a compelling new approach to eighteenth-century studies, the history of the book, and the very idea of character itself.