Sentences with phrase «last widespread idea»

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The swing revival did have the potential to make a widespread impact, as its lasting legacy in giving ball - room dancing a boost attests, but it was a far more ambitious idea than those other revivals, since for it to really work you needed a) jazz - musician participation, b) bigger bands, and perhaps even c) supper - club like venues.

As we briefly discussed in our last editorial such thinking is behind the extremely widespread academic ignorance of the idea of the spiritual soul.

These are developed quite independently of one another and the features they have in common, e.g. the concept of the function of the Son of man at the Last Judgement, they owe to a common dependence upon general and widespread apocalyptic ideas.

Most Americans had no idea that «pink slime» was in 70 % of our nation's ground beef supply until widespread news reports exposed that fact last spring, and it was evidently such an unwelcome surprise that stores began dropping the product in response, causing serious economic harm to its manufacturers.

Nonetheless, the idea of the iPad cannibalizing netbooks gained widespread attention late last week, after Best Buy CEO Dunn was paraphrased in The Wall Street Journal as saying the tablets had cannibalized more than 50 percent of their sales from laptops.