Word: notions
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Some of Lane's signs have a sound scientific basis. Rings around the moon, for example, are usually caused by thin layers of cirrostratus clouds, which often precede storm fronts. But biologists scoff at the notion that the color of caterpillars (which merely signify different species) or where hornets' nests are can tell you anything about the weather. "It's not that we don't take her seriously," says Mike Murphy of the National Weather Service in Nashville. "It's just not the way we approach the science...
...perform while in jail, in a remarkable scene where he averts a gang fight by performing a poem he wrote which challenges the direction of their aggression towards each other. Once out on bail, Ray seeks her out, and they develop a relationship which, although slightly stretching the notion of love at first sight, plays a pivotal role in the developing of Ray into a man of responsibility...
...What's so funny about it is howludicrous a notion it is. Writers, with rareexceptions, are never recognized, and work in thistruly sociopathic, insular world--a world in whichyour emotional life hinges on some adjectivalphrase, whether it's pulled off or not, for weekson end, it may just push you into some horrible ofdepression--that's certainly not the life of atrue celebrity...
...Love Were All," the book's final essay, Sullivan considers the notion of love in gay relationships which he says is too often overlooked in political and social discourse...
Sullivan said that the resiliency of homosexuality, through persecution and disease, proves the notion of an absence of love in gay relationships to be "patently untrue...