Sentence examples for was a conception of from inspiring English sources

What was overthrown was a conception of where and how politics is conducted.

The sculpture of the woman was a conception of a lighthouse by the artist Alison Saar.

For Tolstoy, inherent in the structure of the narrative form was a conception of life that accorded linear temporal order a predominant role, and this implied finitude.

What Marx brought to the idea of class struggle was a conception of how it had developed and how it must eventually turn out.

When James calls Osmond "a student of the exquisite," whose "ideal was a conception of high prosperity and propriety," was he glancing in the mirror at his own ambitions, fearful of what harm they might, if brandished too freely, inflict on other selves?

At the theoretical core of the Zionism advanced by Buber was a conception of Jewish identity being neither a religious nor a national form, but a unique hybrid.

That is a conception of liberal internationalism as a historical process rather than as an ideal.

In traditional Western religious thought, the conception of a creator of the world is a conception of God.

Presupposed in the foregoing account is a conception of human beings as economic animals rationally and self-interestedly engaged in minimizing costs and maximizing gains.

Foremost is a conception of abstraction as unusually body oriented and actively engaged with either the optics of perception or the possibility of function.

What guides Heidegger's thinking, Malpas writes, is a conception of philosophy's starting point: our finding ourselves already "there," situated in the world, in "place".