Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lost my faith several years ago, but I came back--by force, by necessity, because of a rescue action--into the notion of a God who, at certain moments, definitely and personally intervenes in individual lives, one of which is mine...a God of rescue...
...proper subjects, the corps of cadets, who are constantly concerned with its equitable and just operation; and, second, that the honor code which that system serves has given to us all one of the most precious gifts of our lives -a mutual respect based entirely upon the shared notion of the ineffable power of a man's integrity...
...most able and most respected men on my staff. In my opinion, he made a mistake in encouraging pranks. However, this has occurred in my campaigns in the past and had no effect there. I am sure these pranks have had no effects here." That notion seemed to depict the President as a past victim of feckless capers. In any event, Ehrlichman hastily opposed the idea...
...notion that fun and literacy can coexist is a proposition that U.S. theater audiences generally seem to view with unveiled skepticism. Many Americans regard a cultural evening as a therapeutic penance roughly comparable to a dose of cod-liver oil. All such gentry will be dazzled, enlightened and elated by Nicol Williamson's Late Show. Williamson looks like a kind of carbonated El Greco. He has a taut elongated body and funereal brows-yet an effervescent mirth, irony, mischief and intelligence emanate from every tone and gesture of this remarkable actor. In a limited engagement, after each evening...
...Cottle's opinion, there is danger in the magical notion that sex can solve personal and social problems. Some youngsters away from home for the first time imagine that sex can relieve their longing for the closeness of family life. Others, dismayed by the failings of society, use sex to stave off their "terrific fear of disintegration...