Sentences with phrase «archaic notion»
The phrase "archaic notion" means an outdated or old-fashioned idea or concept that is no longer accepted or relevant in modern times. Full definition
Today, the instability that Vassell is exploring has to do with archaic notions of authenticity and race.
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Note: Tupperware parties are STILL a «thing» and have not been left in the 50's with archaic notions of housewives, soused herring and Hopalong Cassidy.
«Depressingly regressive and borderline dangerous, «Moms» Night Out» peddles archaic notions of gender roles in the name of wacky laughs.
Harvard embryologist Doug Melton argues that efforts to outlaw embryonic stem cell research are rooted in archaic notions of what is natural.
The equally archaic notion that «the spark» in long - term relationships inevitably fades over time.
Yet, as we shall see below, the four Gospels (along with some Buddhist teaching) contain what the same writer rightly styled «the most emphatic repudiations of this archaic notion.»
Id wager I could live a better life and be a «better person» without being shackled by your archaic notions.
Well sorry, women are not going to continue to hold to these archaic notions any longer.
You are a lipstick service Jew, much like the majority of the Christians in America — you are only «religious» because you refuse to part ways with the archaic notion of a creator god.
Well, this is the picture perpetuated by the Mommy War mentality, an archaic notion that reduces grown women to catty school girls.
As I have argued at length, and as a great deal of contemporary research and typical experience has confirmed, the archaic notion of an inborn morality is false.
(Young people reared on Collins» trilogy would be more likely to occupy the likes of Rick Santorum's face with a fist than yield to the archaic notions of dutiful womanhood and obedient youth.
It is a veterinary technician's role to be a patient advocate for and to help overturn this archaic notion, amending it to «While patients do eat when they feel better, they also feel better when they eat.»
It seems to be based on an archaic notion that women and people of color don't play video games and don't consume «nerdy media».
Rather than spend legal fees to find fault, most have relinquished this archaic notion and prefer to focus on the injury.