received idea
Example Sentences
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If you like this kind of quick counterpunch against a received idea — I do — then Dyer is for you.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2022
A received idea of professionalism makes people think they cannot express their emotions when someone dies.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2019
The event’s size gives it abundant variety, which in turn is a reminder that a festival movie doesn’t need to conform to some received idea of cinema.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2018
What if the received idea that Madame Cézanne was either mean, or put-upon, or both, is just our own, shortsighted projection?
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2018
So far my original note, written without supposing that the received idea, as to the subject of the picture, had ever been questioned.
From Notes and Queries, Number 191, June 25, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell
