Word: notionalism
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...incorporating upperclassmen more actively as advisers, we are worried about the notion of professionalism,” van Stolk-Riley said...
...When you write the truth, you ruffle some feathers,” Sawyer-Lauçanno said. “Some people want to preserve their notion of Cummings. I was obligated to tell the truth and not gloss over his darker and less salient aspects...
...This notion of two Kerrys—a private Kerry and a public Kerry—clearly worries many Americans. But what worries us instead is the notion of “two Americas,” as Kerry’s running mate Senator John Edwards spoke of in the primary campaign. “One America that is struggling to get by, another America that can buy anything it wants,” Edwards said. Indeed, it is unacceptable for one America to lose hundreds of thousands of jobs in four years while the other America benefits from...
...with pustules of fat clinging to it. The idea behind this image was actually positive. Priests who personified Xipe Totec in fertility rituals wore the skins of sacrificial victims for several days. Then, as the skins dried and came apart, the priests' healthy bodies emerged, symbolizing the fundamental Aztec notion of life growing out of death. But still...
...That notion is reinforced, albeit indirectly, by the growth analysis Norell and a group of American and Canadian scientists published in Nature in August. By looking at growth lines--skeletal marks, analogous to tree rings, that show how much bigger a dinosaur got from year to year--the scientists were able to estimate that T. rex packed on weight at a blistering pace, sometimes as much as 5 lbs. a day. That also supports the idea of warm-bloodedness, which means baby T. rex had to have a way to retain body heat. As the dinosaur shot toward adulthood, however...