The word
"unexamined" means that something has not been looked at or studied closely. It refers to something that has not been analyzed or carefully considered.
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I believe most people live
unexamined lives — and most entrepreneurs don't ask themselves why they're in business in the first place.
«There's a broader issue that really
went unexamined in this process,» said Ken Pokalsky, with the New York State Business Council, whose group opposes the hike to $ 15 dollars.
It is easy to dismiss something you have not experienced but that is a position of
unexamined assumption and bias that must be exposed for what it is.
As an abyss of pornography has moved from under the mattress to the mobile phone screen, gay identity and its relationship to the circulation of images is often
left unexamined.
With postdocs playing a central and grossly unappreciated role in the nation's scientific enterprise, it's encouraging to watch a writer of her ability and stature take a serious look at their
largely unexamined lives.
From Kelsey: I hear often of non-violence & would consider myself a pacifist However, I have noticed that many of the voices of pacifism are men
with unexamined privilege and and thereby do not address the street harassment and threat & fear of rape that women face frequently.
THERE STILL
REMAIN unexamined vestiges of American West Coast counterculture figure Raymond Pettibon, indicated in the exhibition «Human Wave: The Videotapes of Raymond Pettibon» (January 25 — March 17, 2013) through a series of unedited, roughly shot VHS tapes that the artist made during 1989.
At age 53, it's one I'm starting to hear more and one that comes with truckloads of
often unexamined assumptions.
It all feels
as unexamined as her use of certain vocal patterns typically associated with black singers.
Instead of a community of people exercising wise judgements about the general welfare or even acting out of enlightened self - interest, we have large groups of people expressing
unexamined prejudices which are all too easily manipulated by those who control the mass media.
One notes, first, that it relies on a crucial but
unexamined premise, that the simulated characters of video games, if they keep developing in the way they have been developing since the 1970s, will eventually become conscious.
The only source of information for describing the production of most science is surveys that have been called «a rough estimate, frequently based
on unexamined assumptions that originated years earlier» (1).
Indeed, Coetzee says there are likely many more Anopheles species in
relatively unexamined regions of Africa such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo: «There is still an awful lot we don't know.»
While modern developments in criticism and religion did open up a space for interdisciplinary work by allowing relative distinctions between religion and art, they did so within a foundational framework fraught with
unexamined presuppositions.
A Painter's Hand: The Monotypes of Adolph Gottlieb offers a look at a largely
unexamined aspect of the career of one of the most highly influential thinkers and artists of the 20th century.
Pursue your interests, understand science, but don't let it
become unexamined or unquestionable.
Cross-referencing
previously unexamined data from operational folders with already - known mission information enabled the researchers to create time - specific maps of the spraying.
Q: Could you explain the «
unexamined wallpaper» phenomenon and how the network has witnessed its adverse effects on student learning?
During the sessions, questions from Ecuadorian students raised eyebrows, pointing
towards unexamined assumptions that international experts take for granted - such as what makes a city «smart».
Frank is led to this bizarre binary view of contemporary American politics» people are either knaves or fools» by his insistent (if
entirely unexamined) assumption that the only rational politics is a material politics.
What Christians think, or perhaps more often assume as
unexamined attitudes, has much to do with what Christians do — or fail to do.
Somehow, in setting out to restore a sense of proportion, a much needed reminder that life exists outside the television screen and the computer monitor and the printed page, Attenborough has gotten tangled up in
unexamined contradictions.
Much mischief today stems from none - too - careful and often
unexamined models of human action.
I have dealt with «professional appearance and demeanour» issues in practice and have no doubt the initial article was crafted to be a helpful and lighthearted overview of a significant, if underappreciated,
perhaps unexamined aspect of legal culture.
But he also notes that the drop may relate to recent decisions in cases like Bilski (which held that pure business methods can't be patented), the prospect of patent reform and the backlog of 750,000
unexamined patent applications.
From obtaining BAC results to examining driving records and hiring practices, we leave
nothing unexamined in our accident investigation.
''... In - house and law firm lawyers... have the same go - to move — stand back and let me lawyer... The lawyer theory of value — solving legal problems one at a time with smart lawyers — is an unstated and
unexamined preference of lawyers, not a viable long - term solution for the clients they serve.»
The artworks interrogate oversimplifying binaries and destabilize the often
unexamined position of «whiteness.»
Its characterizations are thin (no great shock there) and its dialogue rarely more than functional, but also, crucially and unrealistically, there's a level of
basic unexamined human interaction to the movie that's pretty baffling.
Now might be the best time to
study unexamined caches of lunar material from the Apollo missions
Unexamined feelings can often lead to negative feeling or experiences which their cause is not understand.
But doing so is not as easy as buying the latest software service in the cloud or analyzing buckets of marketing data that have been
unexamined since the early 2000s.
Indeed the 2006 report itself acknowledges that the committee led by Groeneveld left significant
matters unexamined even taking only flood damage mitigation into account.
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