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
Herr Branting is of a very different type from the generally received idea of what a Socialist is.
From Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning by Egan, Maurice Francis
