preconception

How To Use preconception In A Sentence

• It sounds very presumptuous to say I wish to purify Mahler, but I do think, in a sense, that Mahler now has to be purified of all these non-musical preconceptions that have become attached to him.
• The more people have preconceptions, the more you can defy them. Times, Sunday Times
• This is a particularly fascinating example, and if we think it through we can perceive that the preconception belies the reality.
• So, without preconceptions, this is a brisk, well-balanced, fruit forward, but still avowedly savoury wine, that would be a piquant pairing with the crisp, dry snap of well grilled salmon cutlets - a texture lost in pan frying.
• Although he lacks the historical context to articulate Kant's Categorical Moral Imperative, he describes a Supreme Being for whom something akin to this axiom is the ultimate measure of a man, a God who believes that one's ethical duty is to acquire and exercise wisdom, to evaluate and constantly re-evaluate one's beliefs -- including what one's ethical duty is -- by applying the utmost objectivity to one's own preconceptions and prejudices. THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART TWO
• One "preconception" I have, based on the the Book of Revelation itself, is that it in the first instance referred to the Roman Empire and the time in which it was written and their immediate future. The Two Witnesses
• Prepare to discard preconceptions about Vietnam. Times, Sunday Times
• 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.
• The people you would expect to approve are cheering to see their preconceptions confirmed.
• Having led the Arches Circus Summer School for the past two years and with international performance experience, Seed is on a mission to subvert the public's preconception of big top buffoonery.