Sentences with phrase «old notions about»

Wine aficionados all over the world are rejecting a number of old notions about rosés.

As one put it, school reformers who hoped to receive NASDC grants had to «cast aside their old notions about schooling — to start with a clean sheet of paper, and be bold and creative in their thinking, and to give us ideas that address comprehensive, systemic change for all students for whole schools.»

Inferno Max / Shred tosses all the old notions about muscle building into the flames and forges a new template for max growth, max development and max size.

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They dwell on idea people like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, the 23 - year - old wunderkind whose high - concept notions about social networks have made him the hottest thing in business.

(2) The notion that Putin cares about persecuted Christians in the Middle East and wants to play the Russian czar's old role of their protector is both ridiculous and dangerous.

I've written about some of my experiences before — meeting a six - year - old forced to memorize and recite the Westminster Confession at dinnertime, nearly losing my faith over the notion that God created the majority of the human population for no other purpose but to suffer in hell for eternity, and encountering the famed «Jonathan Edwards is My Homeboy» T - shirt in the midst of the so - called «Calvinist resurgence.»

Lind rejects the notion that the Old Testament lex talionis (an eye for an eye) is about revenge; rather, he claims, it is about ensuring that no punishment exceeds the crime.

When Moose my oldest was born, I was strict about wooden toys NOT made in China... then, his first birthday party happened and my notions went by the wayside.

Younger kids are usually interested in knowing about babies and pregnancy and may form wrong notions about the same, which may even last when they turn a bit older.

But most 4 - year - olds are familiar with the notion of a «friend,» and they will have some opinions about the children you should invite.

New scientific research on old methodologies is challenging some of the long - held notions about conventional cancer treatments, and some of this research is making it into mainstream medical journals.

I escaped the Pope madness in DC and took a road trip up to Pennsylvania to help Daddy Bob take care of Mamma B. Whatever preconceived notions you have about old people, retirement homes, and country living... it's probably not even close to this.

Anyone with even the slightest awareness of global politics will cringe at dialogue like «No one cares about Africa» and the notion that good old fashioned American cunning will always triumph, no matter how dire the circumstances.

What excites Callow about the film is that people's notion of Dickens as a bearded older, stuffy Victorian writer, will be changed as in fact he was a father of four, handsome, witty and lively guy who completed the novel at age 31.

And to the person ranting about the amount of «recent» movies on the list, if they were all old mid-nineteenth century movies, they would be representing very dated notions of the states and the list would be a lot of nostaltic smalltown Americana.

: (AV Club Wonder Woman pees fire Interview shares an old interview / photo session of Penélope Cruz from»99 Playbill recaps «everything we know (so far) about Mary Poppins Returns» but they leave out the most important news that we covered here that the world's best costume designer is behind the new magical nanny looks Playbill Kelli O'Hara singing «Toyland» - staged concert version coming up in April Guardian can Hollywood fight back against Netflix who wants us to get over our «romantic» notions of moviegoing.

The Notion Ink Adam was launched just about a year ago, and while it didn't quite live up to the hype, the company is working on getting the one year old unit up and running with the latest version of Android, 4.0 AKA Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS).

In an epoch when older painters tended to work for forty years exploring the same image, Wool blew willy - nilly through different images, often concurrently, challenging traditional notions about artist identity and branding and paint handling as well as the Modernist notion of progress.

«One of the good things about the supposedly evil art boom — setting aside for the moment the notion that it may be destabilizing right now — is that underknown mid-career artists are... read more... «Saltz: Old is gold»

In his article Freelancer: 10 Questions with Seth Godin, cartoonist Hugh MacLeod asks Godin about the old notion that «Freelancer» was «mostly considered a second class citizen» — Godin nicely refutes that prejudice:

What does artwork about «being a 43 - year - old artist whose window to fulfill conventional notions of youthful genius long ago closed» look like?

«When we talked about the notion of unfinished in Asian art — going way back to the dynasties, or when we are talking about some of the oldest African art, the idea of being finished or unfinished had a very different resonance,» says Wagstaff on this point.

Dig deep enough in the «crooked skeptics» accusation, and you ultimately discover that in regard to the notion about skeptics being in a pay - for - performance arrangement with anybody in the fossil fuel industry, there's only one usable weapon in the enviro - activists» arsenal to indict those skeptics as industry - paid shills: the supposedly leaked industry memo set from a public relations campaign called the «Information Council for the Environment» (ICE) supposedly containing the «reposition global warming» strategy goal, which targeted «older, less - educated males» and «younger, lower - income women.»

It has always been defended on that tired old notion that the debate about climate policy divides on the fact of climate change, between scientists who claim «climate change is real» and deniers who claim the opposite.

My deep skepticism about global warming notions rests on the inverse of the old «enemy of my enemy is my friend» adage, namely, the «friend of my enemy is my enemy».

The incredible thing about technology is that it has the effect of leveling the playing field. At one time there was this misguided notion that all attorneys that ended up working for the top law firms were somehow genetically superior to the rest of the legal world. As demonstrated by my favorite book in this last year Outliers, and this post The Outliers of the Law — the old sytem of selecting the best and brightest has no actual grounding in finding the true outliers. In this post by Jordan Furlong supports this idea that the «best and brightest» is a fallacy handed to those attorneys with the best pedigrees and economic situation rather than those most likely to be exceptional attorneys. Don't expect to see this changing any time soon.

The 33 - year - old started adopting a more apologetic rhetoric in early 2017 following the initial controversy caused by numerous reports about the role Facebook played in foreign misinformation campaigns aimed at meddling with the last U.S. presidential election and the backlash prompted by his initial response to the allegations, which was to assert that the very notion of Russian or other agents being capable of using Facebook to influence the stateside democratic process is «pretty crazy.»

Forget all of the old stereotypes about American housing — starting with the notion that only families with a mom, a dad, and 2.2 kids buy homes.