Sentences with phrase «very old notion»

Not exact matches

But even old - line convenience stores that seem to defy the very notion of loyalty nevertheless have loyalty clubs.

In a post yesterday I suggested that the proliferation of choices for «gender identity» (legend has it that there are now 57 varieties to choose from on facebook) will have the effect of deconstructing the very notion of gender difference — or rather, to use the old and proper terminology, the difference between the sexes, male and female.

He was not, for example, particularly hospitable to the American realists» attempts to reconceive the very notion of experience upon which empiricism should be founded, preferring instead to join Moore and others in England in a virtually uncritical acceptance of the older «commonsense» notion of experience as human (and usually visual) perception derived from their seventeenth - century cultural predecessors Locke and Hume.2

Yet the old - fashioned notion of «a sufficiency» — a secure, modest income, rather than a potentially exorbitant but insecure one, that allows one to form attachments, make commitments, and engage in activities that are good in themselves — is very attractive to many Americans.

«That idea is very Orthodox, very old, and an appealing alternative to the notion of a static, predetermined future.

Young skeptics like me long to deconstruct old notions of truth, salvation, faith, and doubt, and in doing so, we have developed ideas that can easily be described as «subtle differences or distinctions in expression, meaning, or response,» or «very slight differences or variation in color or tone.»

Who better to challenge old, dusty notions and reframe evolving conversations than the very, very young?

Never mind that you are de facto criminalising a wide range of perfectly law - abiding people, never mind that you are going against the centuries old notion that an Englishman's freedom should only be taken away in very precise and well - understood circumstances.

The age - old notion — plucked... People Meet and our very own Telegraph Dating are perfect for over 50s.

Naomie Harris seems to blossom in the role of young Winnie Mandela, from the little we saw, while Idris Elba, one of our very favorite actors, certainly has an imposing enough physical presence to challenge our notions of the stately older Mandela.

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.

By the same token, Krueger rejects the notion that policymakers should focus new investments in education on a particular age group, such as the very young: «Old dogs can learn new tricks,» he says, and the benefits of programs for teenagers and adults are apparent more quickly than those for young children.

«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.

Jerry Mander, a 71 - year - old patriarch of the antiglobalization movement, has begun a new attack on the merits of linking markets through planetwide flows of resources and goods — and on the very hip notion of late that one can improve the environment by changing shopping habits.

The rapid emergence of China, India, and other developing economies as formidable economic competitors to OECD economies has also rendered two further pillars of the old framework untenable: first, the notion that rich countries would agree to very deeply cut their own emissions to create more atmospheric space for poor nations emissions to grow or, alternatively, that they would heavily subsidize the deployment of cleaner but more expensive energy technologies in the developing world.

Jon Sweile, Saretsky Hart Michaels & Gould: «Offering new ideas and refreshing old notions of structuring legal arguments was very helpful.

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.»