preconceived notion

And when she meets Fiyero, she says the same thing, but is caught off guard when she realizes he had none of those preconceived notions and didn’t want to ask any of those questions.

“I had all these preconceived notions growing up in the church. They’re perceived as a threat, you know, their lifestyles.”

"I wanted a character that was not going to be pigeonholed by preconceived notions about what I can or cannot do," she said.

Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh related that Straussians filled the Pentagon’s ad hoc Office of Special Plans, and had bulldozed the government’s intelligence agencies in order to cherry-pick dubious evidence to fit their preconceived notions.

But the panel found no evidence that the jury pool had any preconceived notions about Webster, “or even knew who he was.”