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
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
Female athletes' bodies reflect their incredible physical abilities, which were really valued over the Olympics, but for women that isn't part of the received idea of beauty.
From BBC • Nov. 22, 2013
Thus, according to the received idea of the term, a spiritual substance that moves itself, that gives motion to matter, and that acts, implies a contradiction, that necessarily infers a total impossibility.
From The System of Nature, Volume 1 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'
