Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...felt the biggest issues were the patriarchal notion of how women should be and how people should be," Harvie said. "Another was this terrible mixing of church and state so neither gave the sanctuary and protection it was supposed...
...also attacked the notion of admitting students so that they can act out their stereotypical ethnic roles instead of appreciating their own individual skills...
...less expensive no-frills campaigns--as Tsongas did at the start--they might have helped shift the focus of the electoral process from images to ideas. Instead, Kerrey blew all his money on PR, and even Tsongas attempted to fight on Clinton's terms. This just reinforced the destructive notion that the race is to the slick...
...long time we Americans considered our nation itself as the fulfillment of a sort of millennium, a divinely ordained new order, God's own attempt to start over. The notion is far from dead, and it doesn't show up merely in Fourth of July patriotism. There is, for instance, the Panglossy suggestion from a serious academic that, at least in theory, we have devised so perfect a system that we have reached the end of history...
...have a hard time accepting the notion that history is not a steady ascent, that it can move us from high civilization to barbarism, from democracy to dictatorship, from licentiousness to prudery -- and back. During the past hundred years, let alone the past thousand, we have made almost unbelievable material and social progress; what has not changed is the nature of humanity and our never ending challenge: to keep working, to keep mending, to keep building. It has been suggested that Sisyphus is the myth most typical of the human condition. A better choice might be Faust, who, after...