Sentences with phrase «tightly held belief»

So I looked at the paper supplied, and you did a rather admirable job of selecting one sentence from the paper, and using it to dismiss anything the doesn't conform to your own tightly held belief.

The aromatic teardrop in her vial was extracted from the crust of a white bread loaf a month earlier and is a crucial part of an experiment that could overturn a tightly held belief about the Maillard reaction, one of the key chemical responses that occurs during cooking.

When the thought of giving up a tightly held belief feels like a threat to our identity or world view, we're prone to reject it out of hand.

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Amazing how people will come up with stuff to hold so tightly to their beliefs.

You fail to see just how ridiculous it is to hold on so tightly to the bible and the belief in god and the bible and yet your easy dismissal of ancient greek paganism, or roman paganism, or scandinavian.

My friend Adele describes fundamentalism as holding so tightly to your beliefs that you fingernails leave imprints on the palm of your hand.

This one may have been more of a popular sentiment than a tightly held industry belief, but for a while there, the stereotype of the voracious reader devouring multiple titles a week was always lobbed at the romance fans.

In short, down at street level the belief in the «climate change» meme appears to be held quite tightly by the individuals of the Herd.