Word: notionalism
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...Perhaps it took some extra time for audiences to come to grips with the notion that people in the underground are often morally ambiguous. For example, there's an almost casual anti-Semitism among many of your underground fighters...
...wrecking job on the notion that dreams are a random by-product of REM sleep was carried out by the South African neuroscientist and psychoanalyst Solms, who was working at the Royal London Hospital in the 1990s when he made his career-defining discoveries. Solms wasn't alone at the time in realizing that dreaming occurred outside periods of REM, that it was also common at sleep onset and shortly before waking in the morning. But he found an even weaker spot in the Hobson-McCarley hypothesis. If their theory was right, then people with damage to a part...
...Betty's notion of acting while singing was to break each lyric into its components, mine each phrase for the mood or situation, then act that out to the hilt, however short the phrase. Given the Johnny Mercer-Victor Schertzinger ballad "Not Mine" in her debut feature The Fleet's In, she dreamily croons the first line ("It's somebody else's moon above"), then immediately pulls a little girl's mope face for the words "Not mine." She took the same approach to acting, with multiple personalities flashing across her face with lightning speed and violence...
...third-party group Unity08 has expressed interest in him, and he's not ruling it out. Bush boasts of his consistency, but look what it has gotten him: a Democratic Congress, a 33% approval rating and a scandal-plagued end to his presidency. Hagel's hopes hinge on the notion that voters may value idiosyncrasy over ideology...
...wonder black people were so appalled when Frank Hargrove, a Virginia legislator who is white, said last month "black citizens should get over" slavery. That notion invalidates the black reality. It essentially says: The discrimination you feel and I benefit from is an illusion - or at least has no historical context...