Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eventually revealed she had been taking birth-control pills, containing estrogen and a second female hormone, progesterone. That was the very formula Wilson had developed as a means not only to treat menopausal complaints but also to forestall the aging process. Mrs. P.G. was a lush exemplar of his notion that "menopause is unnecessary. It can be prevented entirely...
...useful in marshaling them, as was evident during the Gulf War, which the U.N. authorized. Without it, the U.S. would have more trouble assembling coalitions from scratch in each crisis, or it might have to invent a new international organization (this may become necessary anyway). But the notion that U.S. decisions are subject to the U.N. is a somewhat paranoid fallacy, fed by the Clinton Administration's vacillations and its rhetoric about multilateralism. We can use the U.N. selectively and avoid asking it to undertake things it was never set up to do. To a large extent we can control...
...believe that a politician who sets out on this risky path will inevitably jeopardize his or her political survival. This is a wrong-headed notion which assumes that the citizen is a fool and that political success depends on playing to this folly. That is not the way it is. A conscience slumbers in every human being, something divine. And that is what we have to put our trust...
...exquisitely rendered likenesses that use the caverns' natural contours to heighten a sense of perspective. The contrast suggests that the art of early man did not mature steadily in any simple linear fashion. Says Patrice Baghain, a regional director of the French Culture Ministry: "It throws the entire notion of progressive artistic development into question...
Mapplethorpe's obsessive promiscuity seemed joyless. He believed in Blake's notion that the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom, but in Mapplethorpe's case it seems to have led only to more excess. The one human relationship that comes alive in the book is his lifelong friendship with the rock singer and poet Patti Smith. Her tortured soulfulness, however, contrasts with Mapplethorpe's relentless superficiality; his photographs of her are the only ones that do not seem oppressively clinical. (Even his images of flowers look denatured...