conceptions
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These aspirations speak to customers’ greatest desires, their dreams for the future, and their conceptions of who they are and who they strive to be.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 27, 2026
Glass, 88, is seen as the greatest living US composer and perhaps the most influential in the post-World War II era, shattering long-held linear conceptions of classical music and enthusiastically incorporating non-Western forms.
From Barron's • Jan. 27, 2026
A brilliant final section of self-portraits, beginning with the artist as a fresh-faced 23-year-old, documents both her changing appearance and her evolving conceptions of what a painting could be.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 3, 2026
Twenty-four paintings spanned the working life of the “bad boy” who died at age 38 in 1610, after reinventing conceptions of what a painting could be.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025
The poets of the Elder Edda seem to have had conceptions greater than their skill to put them into words.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
