Sentence examples for without a notion from inspiring English sources
The phrase "without a notion" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express a lack of understanding or awareness about something. Example: "He walked into the meeting without a notion of what was being discussed."
It is simply caught up in its own welter of sadism and gorillas' pleasures, rushing on to the final cop-out without a notion of what it is saying.
Pepys Road's oldest inhabitant, Petunia Howe, dons her granny get-up daily without a notion that anyone would think of it as a costume, but her grandson, a Banksy imitator, wears a suit and tie as a disguise so he can infiltrate art parties unrecognized.
Her mythological heritage proves delusional in another way, as well: even as she was brought up with an abiding, principled love of humanity at large, she had been brought up with a sense that men over all were to be shunned, and without a notion of the particular virtues — and particular vices — of individual men.
Last, certain concepts like taste refinement or self-restraint cannot be understood without a notion of real preference change.
In Panama in 1989, Iraq in 1991 and 2003 and Afghanistan in 2001, "Army generals would lead swift attacks against enemy forces yet do so without a notion of what to do the day after their initial triumph, and in fact believing that it was not their job to consider the question".
Grasping is controlled in an open loop manner without a notion of target contact points on the object surface, and kinetics is handled by PD controllers that are not concerned with balancing force application along an opposition axis.
Certainly, there is so much money in the Valley today that start-ups have room to grow without even a notion of turning a profit.
Soon all of London was guessing who the author could be, and Burney had the pleasurable embarrassment of hearing her friends and family praise the book in front of her without having a notion that the author was in the room.
Because of the whole "without a predetermined agenda" notion, he actually seemed hesitant to weigh in about anti-porn advocacy, since this kind of advocacy is just not part of his job description.
In other words, Jesse's become a rebel without a cause, a notion that probably rang a bell with Mr. Ray.
The objection is not that it is hard to say when someone is badly off, but that it is hard to isolate the specific class of ways of being badly off that we regard as medically relevant without relying on a notion of natural malfunction.
