received idea

The series stands apart, though, for showing how Banerjee, born in India, uses a learned idea of American appetites to pursue a received idea of the American dream.

If you like this kind of quick counterpunch against a received idea — I do — then Dyer is for you.

And yet: The author’s anger gives the book its considerable power, its substantial grace and even, in the end, its meaning — which goes against every received idea of what good memoir is, and how it ought it to function.

Once established, though, the star persona can become a received idea, not just a mask, and tough to dislodge.

A received idea of professionalism makes people think they cannot express their emotions when someone dies.