He has already managed to get over his initial preconceptions of the country, which were based on a lack of knowledge. |
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It went against all preconceptions of the religion when rival factions pelted each other with brinnies. |
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Once I dumped my preconceptions I was able to appreciate the spare subtlety and deep beefiness of the northern variety. |
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Choreographer, curator and video artist, he likes to combine disciplines to subvert our preconceptions. |
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In the early days, some media latched onto the story and it was sensationalised by those who anchored it to their agenda and preconceptions. |
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The lead vocalist destroys all preconceptions of noisecore with his guttural screams and his distinct projections. |
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Full and free discussion even of ideas we hate encourages the testing of our own prejudices and preconceptions. |
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The process of gathering and analyzing intelligence was sometimes distorted by preconceptions and politicization. |
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The British education in high-street curry houses will help them find their way around menus, but after that, preconceptions should be discarded. |
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Such ahistorical preconceptions suggest that the only good work being done is work that is completely new. |
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The preconceptions on which such views are built are forcefully challenged by him in an article this month. |
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The idea was that a language should be described without any preconceptions of what it might turn out to be like. |
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But to spend time in Craig's company is to have any lingering preconceptions about him swiftly dispelled. |
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Musically it is guaranteed to shatter any preconceptions about opera as a genre, certainly any notion of a homogenous genre. |
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Even very stupid bots can appear intelligent if they are acting in accord with our preconceptions. |
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The people you would expect to approve are cheering to see their preconceptions confirmed. |
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The little ones from prep school were there, and because they had no preconceptions and just felt the energy of the sound, they loved it. |
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It was just what I needed and took me out of myself, I met people that didn't have any preconceptions of me so I could just be as I felt. |
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I try not to arrive with any preconceptions, so that I can just enjoy the meal. |
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The roots of relativism lie not in empirical data but in certain epistemological and metaphysical preconceptions. |
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In the Buddhist view, egolessness is pre-existing, beyond our preconceptions. |
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As a straight woman with my own prejudices and preconceptions, I fall somewhere in between. |
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The relative fact is, there is no normal and no abnormal, just the sum total of our prejudices and preconceptions. |
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What we discovered has blown apart all pre-conceived preconceptions of the 19th century. |
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A good many assumptions and preconceptions were challenged and some overturned. |
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He lambastes overanxious pop rappers, racial tension, and society's preconceptions in a nasal hopscotch speed rap over frantic instrumentals. |
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We do tend to dismiss offhand such phenomena as human artifacts, and because of good theoretical and inductive preconceptions. |
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Due to my preconceptions of Beck, I anticipated an offbeat performance full of weird and wild antics. |
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Again, however, there are subtleties and many preconceptions and prejudices. |
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Here, a distinction needs to be made between our concepts of what ordinary reality is, our preconceptions and wishful thinking, and its raw, implacable facticity. |
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Either he has found his stride or I have gotten over my preconceptions. |
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Some people have preconceptions when it comes to these matters. |
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The idea was to challenge my preconceptions and I got very angry. |
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Reagan's benightedness invited his aides to play to his preconceptions and advance their own agendas. |
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The psychiatric patient as comedian is so unexpected precisely because it challenges preconceptions. |
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This chastening experience has challenged many preconceptions about the functioning of modern economies and about globalization. |
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Van Dongen's preconceptions about oak as a traditional, rather unexciting wood changed when he designed the staircase for his own house. |
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But it is no substitute for a full and complete investigation, untainted by preconceptions or stereotypical thinking. |
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Moving forward, it is necessary to establish some groundwork, and also to throw out a few preconceptions. |
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Confirmation bias is a tendency to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions. |
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The 51 mentions of surprise within accounts reflect events that did not coincide with a person's preconceptions, whereas codings for skepticism often portrayed rationality. |
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Volunteering in a healthcare system so different from the UK challenged many of my preconceptions about health and social care. |
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People are more likely to analyze the situation without their preconceptions getting in the way. |
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There are many preconceptions about what spousal support guidelines are and how they work. |
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But during that time, this SUV changed some people's preconceptions that a big vehicle is clumsy, slow and fuel-thirsty. |
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I am looking for all the creativity of which you are capable and I am completely open on these questions, without any preconceptions. |
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However, the participation of Libyan women in national processes continues to be limited on account of social preconceptions. |
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The first generation of western historians to address the western environment as an agent in shaping the region reflected the ethnocentric preconceptions of their time. |
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There is no questioning their fellowship and effort to dispel misplaced preconceptions. |
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A great part of the student misgivings may stem from a difference between people's preconceptions of what co-op is like and what they actually experience. |
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Grandin also wants the film to challenge people's preconceptions about autism. |
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How do clothes, hairstyles, jewelry, and make-up add up to our preconceptions of beauty? |
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Though many 18th century documents are highly informative, these texts are sometimes biased by the preconceptions and motivations of their authors, mainly Europeans. |
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It deserves the best possible national security advice-clear in analysis, as transparently obtained as law and prudence permit and unencumbered by preconceptions or unfounded speculation. |
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One effect of this belief is that teachers are reluctant to explore with parents the accuracy of their own preconceptions about the students, and parents' aspirations and what they expect for their children. |
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I want to emphasize that there is no review process in place right now and there are no preconditions or preconceptions as to how it should be established or how it should eventually function. |
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I love to flabbergast the little-minded by shattering their preconceptions about my nationality and gender. |
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The common law evolves because civilized society evolves, and judges share the common preconceptions of the governing class. |
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Next, we need to be aware that people bring with them not only the preconceptions of society, but also their own emotional and psychological history. |
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They have preconceptions and experiences that relate to how they consider that issues of diversity should be settled and worked through in the larger society, including in the school. |
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Do not have any preconceptions or the feeling that you are arriving in a world made by others and for others: you are arriving along with others in a world that we shall all be building together. |
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These preconceptions were often informed by and agreed with the interwar eugenics discourse. |
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Like all comics, my primary aim is to entertain, but if along the way we challenge some of the preconceptions about Asian women, then I'll celebrate with a samosa – home-made of course. |
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The preconceptions of a wide majority of suburban people towards any difference also motivated me to try the urban experience, away from the immense desolated parking lots. |
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Tagg is often portrayed as a curmudgeon by Stateside hacks more used to glad-handers, and he seems to relish playing up to the preconceptions. |
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She proposes an alternative model in which government employees and citizens learn to share responsibility by challenging their preconceptions of role definitions. |
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We must get away from stereotyping, generalizations and preconceptions, and take care not to tarnish an entire people, an entire region, or an entire religion for the sins of individuals. |
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Through the sequence of pages of the annual report, the reader may form an overall impression, while at the same time examining his own memories and preconceptions. |
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Still, the play disturbingly rings true to the non-disabled audience because it gives voice and panders to all their preconceptions and fears about what it's like to be in a family like ours. |
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However, our results are in line with findings of other studies, which suggest a need to reflect on some of our preconceptions about relative country performance within Europe. |
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Knowledge is a defence against jumping to conclusions. So is an awareness that we are all inclined to see what we wish to see according to our preconceptions, prejudices, and cultural conditioning. |
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Stereotypes: This is an error that occurs when an interviewer's own personal biases and preconceptions of a good employee influence their evaluation. |
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Also questioning our preconceptions, Simo Mikkonen argues that Western scholarship has overdramatized the 1936 Pravda denunciations of Shostakovich. |
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