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
In the commencement we must free ourselves from the commonly received idea that sleep has any resemblance to any of these several states which are usually called magnetic, mesmeric, or clairvoyant sleep.
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson
