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Having preconceptions — I am always curious to break that.
They had to rid themselves of many assumptions and preconceptions.
But, he added, art can counter public preconceptions about psychedelics.
So I didn't have these preconceptions of how things worked.
I can feel my preconceptions being torn apart one by one.
This was done to avoid participants' preconceptions as much as possible.
To accomplish that, she would have to leave her preconceptions behind.
My earlier preconceptions about aging turned out to be completely false.
There are these really set preconceptions about what that genre means.
Han and her team also challenged our preconceptions of "contagious" animals.
I could've let it go, but it's important to challenge preconceptions.
Yes, we do all come with our own prejudices and preconceptions.
"Once you overcome your preconceptions it's actually quite tasty," he added.
If anything, he enjoyed puncturing people's preconceptions about the Eastern tradition.
They play off preconceptions that people have and make them more vivid.
"I had no preconceptions about what the results would be," Graddy says.
Windows Phone disturbed our preconceptions about good user interfaces when it launched.
We tend to listen only to the information that confirms our preconceptions.
"Destroy all preconceptions about everyone—that's what it stands for," Brooks said.
Hnath also draws on the audience's preconceptions about Disney's self-aggrandizing mind.
Such groupings will certainly have drawbacks; our shared preconceptions often limit us.
Exposing people to new facts that challenge their preconceptions doesn't seem to work.
Needless to say, it was clear that people harbored preconceptions about sex work.
Despite being compatriots, Monfils had no preconceptions about what to expect from Hoang.
The study challenges commonly held preconceptions about who needs extra help in college.
Americans have preconceptions of what North Korea is like — militant, reclusive, and oppressive.
For his part, though, Wolff maintains that he set out with no preconceptions.
Mr. Trump refuses to pay attention to anything that clashes with his preconceptions.
But he warned against preconceptions about what those 2020 swing voters look like.
And you're right that people have all kinds of preconceptions about Taylor Swift.
Since the beginning, discussion of Mariels has been tainted by law enforcement's preconceptions.
A coach will help you cut a path through your thicket of preconceptions.
Do you think people have preconceptions about who is making this kind of work?
Sister, Outsider - Along with her sister, Williams proved that precocious talent always trumps preconceptions.
The ultimate message she hopes to convey is one of perseverance despite those preconceptions.
Confirmation bias describes the tendency to only listen to information that confirms our preconceptions.
These preconceptions were found to exist in black as well as white preschool teachers.
I also wrote about my own preconceptions and admiration for some of the students.
He breaks a lot of our falls and dangerous myths or preconceptions about leaders.
He also admits to having some preconceptions about Wisconsin before he thought about moving.
It's a fascinating story — all the more so because it does not fit preconceptions.
The curious absence of hysteria probably reflects an interplay between polarization and ideological preconceptions.
We need to learn to work together and get over preconceptions about one another.
It's like I'm missing an opportunity to disprove preconceptions about women in the sport.
Their understandings of their underlings or users may be skewed by preconceptions or poor information.
It's difficult not to have such preconceptions since the dominant visual narrative pushes these tropes.
Humility does a great job of removing your blinders and seeing what's possible without preconceptions.
There's no pressure to dramatize his experience or conform it to a TV producer's preconceptions.
Most people challenging engineering preconceptions in their garage just, like, make their car go faster.
Preconceptions vanished when he was confronted with the reality of running a government, he said.
But sometimes you can't change preconceptions, no matter how clearly and simply you write. Sad!
It's hard to imagine Ratcliffe telling any truths in public that don't fit Trump's preconceptions.
Just watching the residents leads you to confront and change many of your own preconceptions.
When we think of marijuana users, many people harbor preconceptions about their lives and lifestyles.
"My preconceptions were that autism and comedy did not go hand-in-hand," he said.
But if you're going to challenge people's preconceptions, you have to have your facts straight.
There are inherited preconceptions and associations when it comes to clothing and what it means.
Tired of people like you who have these outlandish preconceptions of what a Shukubo is.
Accurately being able to handicap elections calls for willingness to consider information that challenges preconceptions.
When people talk to me about "real men," or tell me they couldn't fuck someone because they don't hew to their preconceptions about masculinity or what makes someone desirable, it makes me wonder exactly what constitutes a "real man," and where those preconceptions come from.
It was an interesting way of thinking about time, and destroyed preconceptions of what "present" means.
Taddeo seems to have actively sought out women's stories that would adhere to her own preconceptions.
All revolutionary in tone but unattributed, the quotes invite viewers to consider the words without preconceptions.
Hollywood continues to be proven wrong about these old preconceptions about which audiences care about what.
But, as is common in the media and institutional narrative following disasters, prejudices and preconceptions abound.
Our preconceptions distort the way we see things, and limit what we are able to see.
To see if I was correct in my preconceptions, I got in touch with Rafael Beutl.
I discovered that preconceptions about real estate, such as its instability for example, were quite unfounded.
They don't go in free of preconceptions, allowing the evidence to lead them to a conclusion.
In a field that's barely been explored, qualitative accounts can challenge preconceptions and reveal new information.
I realized that I had a lot of preconceptions about masculinity that were pretty narrow-minded.
Conversational computing is holding a mirror to many of society's biggest preconceptions around race and gender.
"If you begin with aesthetics, you begin with preconceptions about what is beautiful," he told me.
For him, it was a way to engage curiosity and visualize concepts that challenge existing preconceptions.
In many respects its economy, its social outlook and its political preconceptions will be completely transformed.
That's how you want life to be: people judged on their abilities and without foolish preconceptions.
I had been there from the beginning, but was distracted by illusory information and others' preconceptions.
Forced us all to wrestle with our own preconceptions about what beauty and stardom really means.
"I'm pretty good at not having preconceptions about people before they open their mouths," Bish said.
Bad Rap, a 2016 crowdfunded documentary about four Asian-American rappers trying to overcome music industry preconceptions.
Because such incidents fall outside of societal preconceptions of sexual misconduct, they are often dismissed or downplayed.
And many of the preconceptions about Colombia being dangerous are at least a decade out of date.
We try to hire people who are willing to follow where the facts lead, whatever their preconceptions.
On that note—preconceptions and so on—how did the culture of Dhahran strike you when young?
Altering a generation's hard-wired preconceptions of what a relationship ought to be is a slow process.
Gunnar Myrdal, yet another Nobel-winning economist, once argued that scientists of all sorts rely on preconceptions.
What I wish car designers would remember is the time of fewer preconceptions and fewer functional constraints.
But is it OK to just change the output with no justification, other than our own preconceptions?
And philosophically, she's electrified by the profound challenge that people like Salem put up against dominant preconceptions.
He asked his students to forget their preconceptions of what a poem or a story should be.
This information is engineered to reinforce our worst preconceptions about one another and drive us further apart.
In the early years, that was expressed by Kawakubo's challenging our preconceptions of what fashion might be.
Rather than beginning with a set of preconceptions, I let the journey give birth to the story.
She said she enjoyed traveling widely and challenging the preconceptions of her audiences, whatever their political persuasions.
That the image of Christ calls him to drop his preconceptions rends his heart and challenges him.
Despite these changes, POF along with other older apps are still challenged in terms of overcoming users' preconceptions.
Funnily enough, I carried these preconceptions with me through the first half of the week I drove it.
Due to its taboo status in our society, cannibalism generates dark and more complex emotions and challenges preconceptions.
Check out more videos from VICE: Your graffiti challenges preconceptions about race, gender and combat violence against women.
After all, humans make computers, and humans are full of all sorts of ugly preconceptions about the world.
Lowe: That's exactly what I wanted to do with it, is shake up people's preconceptions of pregnant women.
"I love it because it really gives people the sense of getting to know me without any preconceptions."
Some have credited Lin's success with helping Asian-American athletes fight racist stereotypes and preconceptions about their skills.
Ensuring Gone Home's story made sense, regardless of the player's preconceptions, was a fundamental part of Fullbright's work.
Animated films can tell an incredible range of stories, and shouldn't be limited to preconceptions of the medium.
"Less is more because you strip away the familiar," opening an opportunity to see the world without preconceptions.
The artist challenges the viewers preconceptions, collapsing concepts of high and low culture and blurring notions of class.
The subversive nature of the culture was attractive, and its ability to shed my youthful preconceptions was welcoming.
But whatever their reasoning, Cahun and Moore remain symbols of how people can break free of society's preconceptions.
He must unlearn, too, his own preconceptions, his own sense of space, time and his habit of expectation.
Ms. Schimmel makes pieces that "exist somewhere between sculpture and product," questioning the preconceptions of the fashion industry.
As a native of South Korea who lives in Seoul, he was surprised to find his preconceptions challenged.
As a sheer display of artistry, it was eye-boggling; as a challenge to preconceptions, it was invaluable.
Now the broader culture needs to consider how to change its preconceptions if 90 is the new 65.
Some entries may appear in step with preconceptions of Canadian film identity, but a majority are notably fresh.
Even if it does not cure every midlife crisis, his book may change preconceptions about the dryness of philosophy.
MI) shareholder CRT Foundation has no preconceptions over a possible bid for the Italian insurer by Intesa Sanpaolo (ISP.
They follow a strict methodology, explicitly meant to filter out values, biases, or preconceptions that might color their research.
Brown says Markle represents the kind of woman whose life was not limited by preconceptions and arbitrary social boundaries.
Before they could even become friends, Slate had to dispel any preconceptions she had about the Captain America star.
The closeness of the bartending community here has been forged through a shared struggle and desire to change preconceptions.
The reality-television, big-reveal style of the "Gods in Color" exhibition is certainly effective at upending our preconceptions.
Leave your preconceptions in the cloakroom and join us on a journey with Ilya Beshevl and Simian Mobile Disco.
Zero Audio upends all of my preconceptions with the Carbo Tenore, which are tiny, beautiful, and sound monstrously good.
But my youthful preconceptions were perhaps shaped more by Boglins, a series of grotesque rubbery puppets released by Mattel.
Rather than stubbornly clinging to preconceptions about each other, dialogue and respectful understanding of differences will move us forward.
And if they're going to have friends, they're forced to socialize with nonwhites, which means pushing past their preconceptions.
When Mr. Polis was first elected to Congress in 2008, though, the usual preconceptions about gay men preceded him.
Despite trying my hardest to not come in with preconceptions, I found the Strip a hard place to like.
It seems like putting together this story would be especially hard with a subject about whom everyone has preconceptions.
Marian's worldview is easily reinforced until reality breaks through her preconceptions in a series of magnetically realized plot developments.
"Students come with fewer preconceptions, whereas people such as us have been doing this a long time," says Lobser.
Made anew from contemporary materials and values inherent, it transforms our preconceptions of how we define ceremonial and musical spaces.
However, explicit discussions around politics can come with a lot of baggage: preconceptions, assumptions, and a general air of defensiveness.
He asked himself what his preconceptions about the Penitentes were, and saw that they all stemmed from folklore and art.
Too often I let myself expect the worst, and these negative preconceptions spoil any chance for experiences to go well.
They say they just want the news given to them straight, then only trust outlets that flatter their ideological preconceptions.
Seeing them through a more human lens really kind of shattered all the preconceptions and prejudgment that I came with.
Here, our preconceptions of technological time are useless: technology doesn't look anything like what it does in our galaxy, now.
Clark and Phillips challenged my preconceptions of the word, which is exactly what they intend to do with their show.
Like Abbott, Slice's haymaker-first style embodied preconceptions about MMA that its self-styled guardians deemed dangerous to its survival.
Now I think it's fun to challenge people in their preconceptions about what it means to be a 'real man.
I truly believe that when there are preconceptions that are faced and dealt with that people are not scared anymore.
But these days the country is challenging those preconceptions, celebrating its diversity, its youthful spirit and its embrace of innovation.
Proponents of blind tastings assert that they free reviewers from any sorts of preconceptions they might have about particular producers.
Kamala Harris made history, as well as challenged stereotypes and preconceptions about women of color in this country head-on.
The portraits were meant to be inclusive, upend stubborn preconceptions and unravel the cocoons people had created within the community.
Although Bush represents a stark example, all presidents have found that they must fight against preconceptions and maintain an open mind.
Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, focus on and remember information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions.
While Larry and Sergey had few preconceptions about running a business, they knew that writing goals down would make them real.
But a harder look at the data reveals that your correspondent has suffered from confirmation bias (misinterpreting information to confirm preconceptions).
In order to address an issue as complex and sensitive as immigration, we should avoid falling into preconceptions and ideological beliefs.
By the end, it was clear that we have so many preconceptions to talk about that there was little to say.
Again and again, I am challenged by my own preconceptions of what I think a sincere Chuck Tingle must be like.
"Authenticity" becomes more complicated when it gets into people's biases and preconceptions about what a politician should look and act like.
Twenty years after his death, Kippenberger's art continues his self-performance, questioning preconceptions of the artist and opening into new selves.
"If Wine School is about overcoming preconceptions, this month's class has a hill to climb," Dan Barron of New York wrote.
Called "Seeing Newnan," the project was meant to upend preconceptions and unravel the cocoons that people had created within the community.
Depending on his preconceptions, Mr Platts may or may not be reassured to know that the answer is an emphatic "yes".
The portraits require a willingness to abandon preconceptions of what a photograph should look like and embrace a singular creative vision.
And then the other thing was that it was really fun to work with existing archetypes of animals, like the existing preconceptions.
From the publisher: Each year millions of young women enter the college scene and are surprised to find their glittering preconceptions shattered.
But ever since Santa has been depicted on screen in Christmas movies, these preconceptions have been toyed with, challenged, and made complicated.
Commodo: It's something I'd thought about doing for a while but preconceptions about how I should do it got in the way.
Preconceptions suggested that the suit would be hard cased, with articulated arms—that it would make a man look like a robot.
The Meitu executives I spoke with were careful to dispel the implication that their apps influenced people's preconceptions about what is attractive.
"Inner Spectrum," a piece in six movements for violin, viola, cello, bass, drums, and piano, is a creation that defeats all preconceptions.
In an interview he discussed his findings, which confound many preconceptions about Shariah, Chinese law and the rigidity of the Communist state.
Managers and corporate officers responding to complaints need to shed their preconceptions about whistleblowers and instead invest in the information they receive.
Every trip I make I have my preconceptions challenged in some way—it's a part of why I love doing this work.
It has to rely on readers bringing a lot of preconceptions to the encounter, which is why it is so easily exploited.
Cambridge Analytica's success was premised on building a distribution system tailored to precisely exploit the biases and preconceptions of specified Facebook users.
I loved the fact that people were unable to "place" me and that I was also largely free of preconceptions about them.
Stein goes to great lengths to explore the psychological, emotional and social aspects of transitioning, and is frank about her own preconceptions.
Her habits of bending the truth to suit her ideological preconceptions and delight her base have an echo in you-know-who.
And rather than adhering to the therapist's traditional role as passive listener, he became an inquisitive interventionist who challenged his patients' preconceptions.
When people subscribe to an ideology, they suck up evidence that supports their preconceptions and filter out evidence that goes against them.
But adolescent preconceptions about jocks and geeks are overcome, and the two form an unlikely friendship challenged by the school's homophobic atmosphere.
First, it's yet another illustration of the intellectual imperviousness of the modern right, which never, ever lets awkward facts disturb its preconceptions.
"There's a lot of disconnect between the high bar of recusal and what the public believes" of a judge's prejudices and preconceptions.
I think it's best to approach novels the way we'd prefer to be approached: with as few preconceptions as possible, as individuals.
To come to this sprawling, dynamic Brazilian city without preconceptions, whether they're about bikinis or President Jair Bolsonaro, is just about impossible.
It seems to me that National Geographic has itself demonstrated that cover photos can draw readers in while simultaneously challenging their preconceptions.
Of course, there are instances when our own mental shortcuts and preconceptions distort the truth, and that is where our cognitive biases arise.
She created each piece, she often said, with few preconceptions about its meaning, preferring to have interpretation arise as the viewer confronted it.
The show Suburra, an Italian-language Netflix original dropping on October 6, is here to shatter any preconceptions you may have of Rome.
And people who are more capable tend to be better at finding ways to interpret new facts in line with their community's preconceptions.
Antonio Cascos Chamizo: I was looking for a fictional situation that could work as platform to transcend the structure of our cultural preconceptions.
Cruz realized that many GOP voters now deeply distrusted their party elites, and he was only too happy to cater to their preconceptions.
The idea is that a prosecutor reading a sanitized report will focus on the narrative rather than being influenced by their own preconceptions.
In short, both positions are compelling when you put aside your preconceptions, dig into the data, and speak candidly with subject matter experts.
It's hard to imagine that pulling up close to another distance ice ball won't shatter even more preconceptions about the outer solar system.
Kizuna is part of Type Faces, a series of portraits with big blocky text that Rodriguez says affects our preconceptions about his subjects.
Chidui fights against these preconceptions with a staff comprised entirely of women, clad in beautiful kimonos, working as hostesses, servers and sushi chefs.
It is, after all, pretty cool, at least if you let go of any reasonable preconceptions you may have about sane product planning.
The wonder of the novel is that its readers will be confronted gradually with their own preconceptions and, by the end, surrender them.
"We all bring stuff along when we travel -- your preconceptions, your personal belief system, the full weight of your life experience," he said.
If you identify your team via their initials (men and women), you effectively strip out all preconceptions related to race, ethnicity and gender.
We try to be neutral and we try to leave our biases and preconceptions at the door and get our work done together.
We're told about the world before we see it, we imagine things before we experience them, and we become hostages to these preconceptions.
Third, economic policymakers need to display the flexibility to respond to incoming information, even when it doesn't fit their own forecasts or preconceptions.
Their story sets the tone for this rich and urgently necessary book in which Okeowo disregards all preconceptions to reach for the truth.
But I found myself instead being troubled by what I hadn't expected to find — and the preconceptions that had shaped my original notions.
Melba Pearson, a former prosecutor, said that in her experience, personal preconceptions affect how those cases are policed and whether they are prosecuted.
The scope of Mao's ambition — to develop a thermonuclear weapon that could hit the United States — did not match American preconceptions of China.
I'm ready for any preconceptions I have to be totally shattered, and I'm excited to share my experience with New York Times readers.
Despite the gulf between us in technical skill and ability, Rachel has experienced the same preconceptions about women not being able to play.
Studying literature and pop culture, she initially had preconceptions about asexuality, based on film and TV characters like The Big Bang Theory's Sheldon Cooper.
This story on how his livestreaming is challenging preconceptions by beaming a different image of North Korea into South Korean homes is absolutely fascinating.
When you see what people look like you have some preconceptions about how they act, and that kind of helps me write their character.
The movie's final 20 minutes are spectacular, and will challenge all preconceptions about Area X that may have calcified in your mind earlier on.
After the events of the last 5 minutes of the story, no one will be comfortable in their preconceptions about the world of Colony.
Aiming both to raise the profile of female photographers and to tackle widespread preconceptions and prejudices, Format took a unique approach to supplying images.
Despite my preconceptions, Leo was not a New Age type in the traditional sense: He was wearing a scarf and had thick, slick hair.
He acts like an avid consumer already, has the trust of the president and appears unburdened by preconceptions about what the intelligence should say.
It will change only slowly to manage this new risk, and it will have great difficulty sloughing off old preconceptions which no longer apply.
But neither of those points get at the brand's essence, that moment the Ferrari-ness of the actual thing cleaves away your own preconceptions.
" He noted that "unfortunately physical contact took place" but asked viewers to put aside preconceptions and "quit calling the police department and making threats.
In the hours I spent with him, he told me he's not much interested in books, or art, or ideas that challenge his preconceptions.
You need to do away with your preconceptions about how something's going to get solved and try to come up with your own way.
Indian-Americans are a really interesting challenge around all of our preconceptions of race and dynamics in this country in a lot of ways.
"It's impossible to finish that book and come away with the same stereotypes and preconceptions about slavery that you began it with," he continued.
All sorts of preconceptions fall away once these very different people are in a room together, with the happiness of their children at stake.
"It's all fiction," he says, of how we think of others; overcome these preconceptions, and you're on your way to being a Derren Brown.
Not short on discomfiting scenes, "Waking Lions" offers a commentary on privilege and otherness, challenging readers to confront their own blind spots and preconceptions.
They could start out without preprogrammed preconceptions and make inferences from the data about how the world works and how to work in it.
"There are so many old preconceptions of East Waco — that's it's dangerous, that it's whatever," Cuevas Peacock, a community organizer with Grassroots Community Development, said.
"She works like a scientist: she reads lots, assesses the facts and doesn't have preconceptions," observes Jens Spahn, her CDU colleague and deputy finance minister.
My preconceptions about the elderly went out the window four years ago, when a woman in her early-80s came to me seeking pastoral care.
The filmmakers, who made "Leviathan," the striking 2012 immersion into commercial fishing, seem to be arguing that Sagawa needs to be understood beyond moralistic preconceptions.
Why bother researching if we are unwilling to allow ourselves to be surprised, informed and disabused of preconceptions about how a situation must have unfolded?
Many people came in with flawed preconceptions — for example, that immigrants were coming to this country so they could draw Social Security or other benefits.
But as he speaks, you can tell that some of his findings from the new data — which rebut his preconceptions — could change his own politics.
The new study started out with "no preconceptions," Friedman said, looking at 26 Canadian diplomats and their family members, referred by Canada's foreign affairs ministry.
But even if Bayer and his colleagues can assertively present clear evidence and refute already-established preconceptions, that doesn't mean people are going to listen.
" Noting that he had been a Jesuit for 16 years, he added: "I rarely talk about it, because it plays into people's preconceptions too easily.
But he also accepted that he had to rethink some of his own preconceptions, and as his musical outlook broadened, his output as a composer dwindled.
Take This' co-executive director Shannon Gerritzen suggests games are often thought of as crude playthings centered around violence, yet wider preconceptions are beginning to shift.
EDINBURGH, Sept 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As a transgender woman and one-time anarchist revolutionary, Taiwan's digital minister Audrey Tang has spent her life challenging preconceptions.
A UK-based education charity, Inspiring The Future, has produced a telling video that demonstrates how young children have gendered preconceptions about their future career paths.
Yes, she recognizes the twisted cruelty of her characters' actions, but insists on treating them as "whole human beings" and ingests each role with few preconceptions.
Basically, they pierced his "wholly unfair" preconceptions and he got to see them as they were: not youthful offenders, but kids with interests, ability, and talent.
The robot starts to develop, too, becoming an integral part of the Robinson family as they struggle to adjust their biases and preconceptions about artificial intelligence.
A white, privileged man claiming that "99% of the country" doesn't care about those things plays right into the preconceptions people already had about the writer.
In some sense, our limitations and preconceptions are what it means to be human—and only by understanding those presumptions could you design a better world.
It needs to be done in the privacy of the studio with all devices turned off and all outside biases and preconceptions (including your own) absent.
The two-day pop-up banquet, which ran December 2nd to 3rd, was designed to challenge the preconceptions of decay, emphasizing the process's allure and intrigue.
The belief at the time was that languages can vary arbitrarily, so when you study a new language you should come to it without any preconceptions.
"The goal is to shift some of the preconceptions that people have around classical music, some of the negative stigma around the concert experience," he said.
Over the course of the movie, the participants — drawn from a variety of ages and racial backgrounds — acknowledge and break down their preconceptions about one another.
MIKE HALE 'Speechless' (ABC) "Speechless," a sitcom about a family with a nonverbal child, knocks down more preconceptions about the world of disabilities with each episode.
She challenges preconceptions about how to watch dance with a performance piece for which each member of the audience is asked to wear an eye patch.
In 'Through You,' because we got to break all the rules and twist the preconceptions, I got to just be weird and suddenly it was condoned.
Throughout the festival, performers were aware of the symbolism of the moment; they talked about how important it was that they were proving people's preconceptions wrong.
Minorities in film may want to socialize with people who look like them and don't have preconceptions about who they are or what their capabilities are.
My preconceptions about older people first began to crumble when one of my congregants, a woman in her 80s, came into my office seeking pastoral care.
She challenges preconceptions about how to watch dance with a performance piece for which each member of the audience is asked to wear an eye patch.
The silver-toned room in which they have found themselves (Wilson Chin did the set) certainly doesn't match any of their preconceptions of heaven or hell.
I simply uphold their preconceptions and question whether I should just leave it to women like her, rather than perpetuating the stereotypes that hold her back.
It's good for business, since it makes the place an easier sell to NGO workers and expats, but it's also a conscious attempt to subvert preconceptions.
But much of the criticism also stems from Mr. Cohen's status as a single gay father, and how it subverts preconceptions about parenting and gender stereotypes.
The Star Wars franchise has a reputation as being just for boys, but a new documentary from filmmaker Annalise Ophelian is looking to blow those preconceptions away.
Today, as his collection is unveiled in one of London's most prestigious art institutions, Bowie continues to challenge "preconceptions of 'otherness'" about Africa from beyond the grave.
Whereas humans may have preconceptions about which product designs or drug combinations are likely to work best, algorithms are more likely to come up with novel solutions.
Fathers today face the paired challenges of shifting domestic pressures in dual-earner families and lagging social preconceptions of dads as breadwinners and mere helpers for mothers.
And finally, Ross doesn't recommend communing with spirits from beyond the grave, but he does recommend a spooky read that may challenge your preconceptions about the supernatural.
The work was extraordinary — you could spend hours trying to parse how it came together — and singular, and raised some pointed questions about gender, uniforms and preconceptions.
Mr. Trump exploits people's preconceptions about sound in a manner similar to his exploitation of illness, to signify a hidden, never-quite-graspable threat to the nation.
"  But if you step back, take a breath and clear your mind of preconceptions, it's just as easy (and I would argue, more rewarding) to see "U.
Mr. Peele sets out to debunk the myth of "postracialism" generally — by showing that the country is still gripped by historically conditioned preconceptions of race and blackness.
I feel, in general, in my life at this moment, I'm very aware of how off my preconceptions are, whereas I've always thought I had good instincts.
It challenges our preconceptions of using simple, used materials to create dramatic ritualistic experiences and sound that would have once only belonged within a church or ceremonial space.
This uncolored sound is comparatively less emotional, and I've previously written about how ill-suited it is for entertaining casual listeners, but the R70x somehow defy old preconceptions.
They experience a milder expression of schizotypal traits such as openness to new experiences, a tolerance for ambiguity, and an approach to the world relatively free of preconceptions.
We're told Glaser assured the lawyer she was the only one in charge of the investigation, she had no preconceptions and wanted to be fair to both sides.
Naseer is keenly aware that the works in this tight-knit exhibition could feed Americans' preconceptions about her home country: the backwardness of Islam, the oppression of women.
"Numerous studies show that, regardless of partisan ideology, people are very good at accepting information that conforms to their preconceptions, even if it is false," the letter reads.
I was very aware at the beginning the preconceptions that people would have because of where I came from, but I've always been very focused and very honest.
Neither the United States nor Iran is perfect, but both will gain from person-to-person contacts, building toward knowledge and understanding and away from preconceptions and ideology.
The publication of the documents was a classic case of the American government accepting bogus information because it confirmed its preconceptions and justified actions it wished to take.
But for some fans, knowing less is more, and the fewer expectations they have going in, the better their chances are of enjoying the new series without any preconceptions.
They saw past technical challenges, low fidelity and — perhaps most crucially — beyond the status quo's preconceptions of what was possible in order to investigate the potential of something unproven.
In an ideal world, I'd love to have seen Lenovo and Samsung cast off all the preconceptions about what a gaming PC should be and truly break new ground.
I spoke to Robert about the power of photography to challenge preconceptions, the limits that society continues to place on black men, and why they deserve a new narrative.
In terms of the fight itself, everyone that fights Demian Maia has an idea of what they're preparing for, but his jiu-jitsu can turn those preconceptions upside down.
Instead, we are roiled by preconceptions and biases, and we usually do what feels easiest — we gorge on information that confirms our ideas, and we shun what does not.
But in our present moment, truth, including truth that unsettles us, has far too often become subordinate to justifying and defending at all costs our own, often unsound, preconceptions.
The challenge for a judge is to recognize that fact and do the hard work of setting aside the prejudices and preconceptions they bring to the table as people.
But Creighton believes those preconceptions can be reinforced in medical school, where doctors often work in communities where they don't live, surrounded by people that don't look like them.
"Going down to the South, to Louisiana, and being trained on a gun range there, I definitely brought my preconceptions and prejudices about gun use," star Hari Nef tells me.
Like some of the American and United Nations diplomatic hands who have failed for years, Abbas seems unable or unwilling to shed the preconceptions that have guided him for decades.
The public has strong preconceptions about just how safe these cars can be, and companies rightly worry that those fears will turn into legislation that's adverse to self-driving cars.
But reading Sullivan's life through his own inner thoughts provides a deep insight into a trans activist who bucked stereotypes and forced many to reconsider their preconceptions of being trans.
Uthoff, who is in graduate school for sports management, admits that he has debated his teachers and his coaches, challenging assumptions and preconceptions about the way Iowa goes about things.
Through their actions and entrepreneurial success in a largely male-dominated industry, the two women are challenging preconceptions of what a leader in the craft beer community can look like.
But that same reputation can become a trap, compelling an artist to deliver the familiar and a viewer to expect it, with preconceptions and prejudices that can obscure the work.
This small-scale activation is a natural next step in our ambition to get closer to our consumers; by normalizing disability in advertising and communications, and using humor to challenge preconceptions.
"In LA, people hear my accent, and it's kind of like my secret weapon, because people can't help but have preconceptions when they hear me speak," he says with a laugh.
" His inexperience ended up being a blessing: "With no preconceptions and no idea of what would work and what wouldn't, we did things differently and paved our own path to success.
Except for one gold wall at the far end of the restaurant, the interior stays away from anything that may play into preconceptions of how Indian restaurants are supposed to look.
I'm none of the preconceptions of what an architect might be, and that means that every time I introduce myself as an architect, I have to push through the initial assumptions.
Banana bread and dinner for four, soccer practice and dance class, the library and the playground — my household adheres to one ideal of family even as we challenge some people's preconceptions.
And if you think such an image doesn't tally with your idea of a Beckett hero, well, it's healthy to have your preconceptions of art shaken up every now and then.
If I were coming to these kind of stories with no preconceptions, I might reach for polytheism or pantheism to explain the variety and diversity of what reaches through the veil.
New York State still has millions of baptized Catholics, but the faithful are divided and adrift and accustomed to tuning out messages from their bishops that don't fit their partisan preconceptions.
Perceptiveness is a problem for us, particularly in charged situations; we are prone to projecting our preconceptions and biases, placing crude but familiar frames over situations before we fully understand them.
He seems to have no preconceptions about her, and when Paul (Chris Coy) half-jokingly invites Frankie to a party for Boys in the Sand, Frankie asks if he can bring Ashley.
And yet, for all our preconceptions about what reasonable smartphone pricing is and should be, every phone that's dared to nudge up to the $999 level and above has proven a success.
It's a point that quickly springs to mind when considering one key factor; since arriving we have only felt safe, experienced nothing but warm welcomes, and witnessed preconceptions vanish into the ether.
But we didn't have any preconceptions of what the record would be before we went into it, and I never really took time to think about what the record should be like.
Furthermore, finding creative reasons to dismiss poll results that may not fit with your preconceptions has generally been a bad idea this year, as Trump's primary rise and Brexit have both shown.
Hubbub over the last five years has run nearly 240 "Pumpkin Rescue" events, where people gather to figure out new ways to cook Halloween pumpkins - and to change preconceptions about food waste.
Hubbub over the last five years has run nearly 240 "Pumpkin Rescue" events, where people gather to figure out new ways to cook Halloween pumpkins - and to change preconceptions about food waste.
"His Holiness consistently emphasizes the need for people to connect with each other on a deeper human level, rather than getting caught up in preconceptions based on superficial appearances," the statement continued.
Their cooking is informed by a noble quest to treasure the tastiest and most flavor-yielding bits of the animals, completely indiscriminate of what our usual preconceptions of good taste might be.
I have my doubts: Reviewers ought to be professional enough to overcome their preconceptions, because it deprives them of useful information that could contribute to their understanding of what's in the glass.
A play whose characters are all white, written by an African-American dramatist, "Appropriate" shares with "The Doctor" a desire to subvert preconceptions, starting with a title that works on multiple levels.
Just for fun, I added a few more expensive wines, then put the bottles into bags to hide the labels, a "blind tasting" designed to prevent any preconceptions from influencing my perception.
UNDERGROUND A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet By Will Hunt A book can often have its greatest impact by rethinking familiar terrain, forcing readers to reconsider their entrenched preconceptions.
It's a slow, fascinating look at how the judges' preconceptions and prejudices direct their decisions — especially since the film invites the audience to think about what they'd do in the judges' seats.
Plenty of fake news articles can be easily debunked with a few minutes' research, but that doesn't stop their spread, especially in communities who want to believe such lies that fit their preconceptions.
Chadwick felt the reality, with the series always stating it wanted to prepare women to take on the men in junior series such as Formula Three and Formula Two, had changed some preconceptions.
The delivery may be deadpan, but it's a playful roasting of masculine insecurity that deftly blows any We Slept At Last-fuelled preconceptions about her as coy or withdrawn out of the water.
Painting is an invitation for viewers to feel complicated emotions, create their own understanding, question their preconceptions, and explore the decisions an artist has made to keep meaning from becoming stagnant and determined.
This perspective may seem like an odd take from an artist who has spent his entire career defying the music industry's preconceptions, but it also makes sense given the space he occupies now.
We have countless preconceptions about how a death has to be handled, countless taboos around discussing it openly, and we place a profound degree of trust in those that help us handle it.
Preconceptions and Questions: Both Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton are well-known celebrities in American culture, and students are likely to have ideas — perhaps even strong opinions — about one or both candidates.
I guess I could have thrown out the result and gone in search of another approach that told me what I wanted to hear — but what I did instead was rethink my preconceptions.
Album 10 Photos View Slide Show ' Milton Glaser, the graphic artist, once said that drawing was for him a way of distinguishing what was real in the world from his preconceptions of it.
Actors like Mr. Dargham, who played a member of the chorus, saw Mr. Rau and his team arriving with preconceptions, focused on the Islamic State's invasion but seemingly oblivious to other painful episodes.
By having employees like Ms. Butson running tastings and finding wines for customers, Majestic is hoping it can throw off gender-related preconceptions about wine — and become a more attractive employer for women.
The course emphasized Roma culture, but it unavoidably touched on modern social issues and preconceptions — like the notion that Roma are a nomadic people who feel at home living in filthy insalubrious camps.
Like "The Mismeasure of Man," it illustrates how conscientious scholars were completely wrong about virtually every aspect of a topic they studied — here, pre-Columbian American life — because they operated under false preconceptions.
The nature of the convention gives a campaign an opportunity for something just like this — a pitch aimed directly skeptical voters, aimed at convincing them that their preconceptions about the candidate are wrong.
This kind of thinking is somehow embedded in people's minds, so it's time for executives and casting directors to really shake loose all of their preconceptions of who Asians or other minority groups are.
Like many Latinos, they tend to hold conservative values; new to the mainland and without strong partisan preconceptions, they are open to Republican ideas in ways that Puerto Ricans in the North are not.
This "he said, she said" standoff is unlikely to change any minds and might merely reinforce the preconceptions of the senators who will vote on Judge Kavanaugh's nomination to the United States Supreme Court.
Soup and smoothie maker Daily Harvest, which has the backing of celebrities that include Gwyneth Paltrow and Serena Williams, thinks it's onto a new kitchen science that can shake up preconceptions about frozen food.
When a majority of the public is mentally prepared to accept the government's account because it conforms to their preconceptions, the government can easily beat back doubts by calling doubters disloyal and un-American.
I think I was able to recognize that, and I was able to find value in that sooner, because I didn't have the preconceptions of what you can and cannot do in a political campaign.
" They continue, "The metaphor aims to inspire a reflection on how people with Down syndrome see themselves, whilst revealing the inherent prejudice and discrimination that they face based on society's preconceptions and stereotypical low expectations.
On principle, The Bachelor and Bachelorette require you to throw some of your preconceptions about traditional dating out the window, but this most recent piece of news is still hard to wrap our heads around.
"Metamorphoses has the potential to break down our preconceptions of the voices of creativity, what different people around the world are thinking and who has the right to be heard," Lovett said in a statement.
Google's invasion of that space is exciting, and the Pixel itself — when stripped of our constantly speeding expectations and preconceptions — is a highly advanced device with which Google can begin to disrupt the status quo.
By the same token, in its early years, few would have predicted that increasing opioid use would upend our preconceptions of addiction and become a full blown crisis that continues to worsen and claim lives.
And so, even if 19 years have passed and Serena is now 35 and Venus 36, it is wise to avoid fencing them in again after they have run roughshod over so many other preconceptions.
A simple practice called the "believing game" and the "doubting game," from Professor Peter Elbow's "Writing Without Teachers," can help students to challenge their own preconceptions and to think more critically about what they read.
Buttigieg was the first major openly gay presidential candidate, and he challenged and changed Americans' preconceptions of what such a candidacy would look like, as I wrote in a column just before the Iowa caucuses.
So until gender inequality is overcome, whether in regard to opportunity, or how women are judged, when audiences see a woman behind the decks, they'll continue, at least to some degree, have certain preconceptions and opinions.
It was clear to me where things were going, but Father Zogby liked to say that the first step in the contemplative life was letting go of preconceptions and expectations—so I pushed my suspicions aside.
But as I looked further, when I stripped away my preconceptions of beauty shaped by 25 years of seeing nothing but photoshopped nudity, I began to see the beauty, joy, and sadness mingling in the photos.
Moreover, it is an opportunity: Day to day, when choosing those activities in which I wish to take part, I am guided by preconceptions of my role as spouse and how I wish to modernize them.
I am sure Frank harbored racist perceptions and beliefs and some homophobia, and he had conventional notions about women, but he took people on their own terms, and he made judgments based on experience, not preconceptions.
Sanders remains in the race, suggesting that he believes Americans can overcome their preconceptions and vote for someone who is markedly different than most of the people who have previously held the office of the presidency.
Prominent examples include confirmation bias, the tendency to interpret new information in a way favorable to one's preconceptions; and anchoring, the tendency to overly weight an initial piece of information, even when order does not matter.
Faith, who has refused to make public the sex of her one-year-old, said she encountered gender expectations "all the time" but hoped to give her child space to grow without the pressure of preconceptions.
The preconceptions about Lamarr ensured that some of her most groundbreaking achievements, namely the invention of a technology called frequency hopping which would later serve in the development of WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS, remained shrouded in obscurity.
Superficially dipping into a neighboring field is dangerous in part because the results almost always reinforce the writer's preconceptions and lead to stories that, while perhaps popular and satisfying to read, are too good to be true.
At those moments especially, "Yang exhibits his talents as an essayist willing to risk confrontation, with his own preconceptions and with the orthodoxies of the liberal-to-left political spectrum," Viet Thanh Nguyen writes in his review.
While the people involved in the nation's 'killer clown' craze should be doubtlessly be punished by some form of public humiliation, Bob Bradley should be shown courtesy and respect, and given the opportunity to counter prejudicial preconceptions.
It gives fans the benefit of something new — instead of featuring familiar actors who come with their own preconceptions from earlier roles, the new cast will get a chance to make a fresh impression as these characters.
It can be honed by following a set of rules — such dropping your preconceptions (in order to observe your environment with discernment) and reading between the lines (because people don't always say what they're thinking out loud).
For example, the AI is thrown off by parts of Brooklyn's Greenpoint, a relatively wealthy neighborhood, perhaps because the satellite view matches Penny's preconceptions about low-income areas—places that are relatively devoid of skyscrapers or greenspace.
The potential for divergence between separate models won't be erased, and so, no matter how accurate one model becomes relative to the preconceptions that birthed it, there will always remain the likelihood that it will clash with others.
I didn't have any preconceptions about who he was, and I didn't need much more to go on than this: I had met the nicest guy, and I wanted to get to know him on my own terms.
Or a tiny ivory monument to ancient autarchy, rendered in such meticulous, naturalized detail as to challenge our preconceptions of what is manually possible at such a scale no matter the era, no matter the tools at hand.
Your boyfriend is surely right about inviting the fellow out for a coffee: Given your preconceptions (and, perhaps, your air of class privilege), the officer could well experience your attempt to correct him as more condescending than enlightening.
Rather, some people (about 8 percent of the adult population, if we take the survey data at face value) are willing to believe anything that sounds plausible and fits their preconceptions about the heroes and villains in politics.
Hans Rosling, a Swedish doctor who transformed himself into a pop-star statistician by converting dry numbers into dynamic graphics that challenged preconceptions about global health and gloomy prospects for population growth, died on Tuesday in Uppsala, Sweden.
A study by David Comer Kidd and Emanuele Castano argues that reading literary fiction makes people show empathy, challenge preconceptions, and be more flexible in their decision-making—all of which are, presumably, desirable in practitioners of the law.
Part of the reason white people may not be looking for housing in neighborhoods that are as diverse as they say they want might be because they just don't know about these areas or have inaccurate preconceptions about them.
In his classes, Ginsberg asked his students to forget their preconceptions of what a poem or a story should be, and look instead for the "interior form" they glimpsed beyond "the superficial level of mind" of what they knew.
As the political theorist Nancy Rosenblum has observed, good partisans don't stick to their preconceptions but instead are always scrutinizing the public and their adversaries, figuring out how to amass the votes and resources they need to win elections.
There are a lot of preconceptions about illness and disability, but as a story shared by Lexi Baskin on the Love What Matters Facebook page shows, it's important to remember that you shouldn't always judge by what you can physically see.
Mood Ring, an ongoing pop-up exhibition at Wayfarers in Brooklyn, seeks to dismantle these preconceptions, or at the very least, to open a dialogue about them through the works of six artists going through the throes of mental health disorders.
From there the goal is often to slow sex down, throwing away any patterns or preconceptions about when something should happen or how something should feel and instead focusing in on what their bodies are intrinsically able to do and feel.
Framing the Unit: After sharing their preconceptions and gaining some background information from the article, explain to students that for this election unit, the class is going to become investigative reporters who look behind the sound bites and campaign slogans.
In early January in New York, two festivals of new opera, music theatre, and multimedia events—the Prototype Festival, which has been running since 2013, and the Ferus Festival, which began in 2010—dismantled preconceptions of what opera is and does.
"What can be a danger with Austen is that you can get slightly awe-struck by the material, and also have seen so much of that material before that there are all sorts of preconceptions in your head," he said.
The economic evolution that has sent manufacturing and extracting industries plunging while service and technology jobs surge has challenged the preconceptions of a generation of Americans accustomed to seeing an assembly line job as a path to middle-class success.
His office's statement on Tuesday continued to reiterate that the Dalai Lama has traditionally stressed "the need for people to connect with each other on a deeper human level, rather than getting caught up in preconceptions based on superficial appearances," according to CNN.
Through this, Isobel and her best friend, Cam (Meredith Hagner), meet a host of strangers, all unique in their idiosyncrasies, who challenge the two friends' pre-existing preconceptions about new people, and help to pivot the direction of their own lives, too.
The narrative itself asks the audience to think about how people engage with true stories, particularly those told by and about women, as Grace is perpetually hemmed in by the social strictures of her time and the preconceptions of the men around her.
I didn't get to do as much research about Seoul as I would have liked to before coming here, but on the flipside, I didn't have any preconceptions about what to do or where to go, and ended up loving every moment.
Bill Keller, a former executive editor of The Times, used to say that one of the most important things for reporters to do is to report against their own preconceptions, to actively seek out perspectives that might be contrary to their own.
"Sparks and members of the Board unapologetically marginalized, bullied, and harassed, members of the school community whose religious views and/or identities did not conform to their religiously driven, bigoted preconceptions," Benjamin's legal team claimed in a 47-page complaint filed in 2017.
While the education secretary has done little to highlight the diversity in her administration — the department declined to make any of the appointees available for interviews — DeVos watchers say that diversity should encourage critics to focus more on her actions than their preconceptions.
In 2017, comedian Hari Kondabolu made a documentary about and called The Problem With Apu which featured prominent South Asians from Hasan Minhaj to former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy describing how the character informed people's preconceptions of them as they grew up.
CANNES, France (Reuters) - A love story between a wealthy young Mumbai businessman and a countrywoman who comes to work as his servant will challenge Indians' preconceptions about class, said first-time feature director Rohena Gera as she presented her film in Cannes.
That includes convincing studios that projects by and featuring people of color are good for business, and overcoming old preconceptions, like the belief that movies and TV starring African-Americans don't travel as well overseas in what's become an increasingly global business.
How might they contain their interior landscape — their evolving selves, basically — and how will they productively, without becoming overwhelmed (or without imposing preconceptions that close down possibilities), deal with the deluge of feeling and information that exists both within a person and without?
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In Basel, turning the corner and discovering the black oily-looking ink with pink champagne painting-machine/painting "The Lovers" (1991) — and approaching its techno-lovers in flagrante delicto — lifts both sex and painting preconceptions out of their superfluous state of solipsistic sluggishness.
The discord within the European bloc, especially as it relates to migration and how to handle the millions of people fleeing Muslim countries like Syria and those in North Africa, was a story line well-suited to Mr. Trump's political leanings and preconceptions.
The idea in both cases is to push beyond the clunky race labels we have inherited, as well as our own preconceptions about those labels, and to see people with greater clarity and nuance than those categories and their attendant biases generally allow.
And while the show's treatment of Holt — a gay black man who's had to fight preconceptions about himself for decades — and Braugher's laconic delivery have always been a treat, Holt consistently became looser, stranger, and more delightful with every episode of season four.
Speculative provocations starting from real-world possibilities, much of his work is interested in "uprooting clichés of art and AI," as he put it, challenging common preconceptions about AI and its application and upending the "default image spaces" in visual representations of future worlds.
Doctors harbor preconceptions about what a patient with endometriosis looks like: female (though some trans and cis men are also affected), white and upper-middle class (black women are likely to find themselves misdiagnosed with sexually transmitted pelvic inflammatory disease instead), sensitive and ambitious.
But the crises have highlighted the obstacles in persuading Latino immigrants that American tap water is usually safe: Images of brown, poisoned water flash on television screens in living rooms and laundries here, reinforcing the preconceptions imported from places where bottled beverages are culturally ingrained.
Ms. Nevalainen's case highlights how even villages in the heart of rural Sweden are grappling with the presence of increasing numbers of Muslim refugees, some of whom may bring with them preconceptions about the West and even allegiances to groups in fiery Middle East conflicts.
The problem for me is that synchronicity is suspect within cognitive science, an error of inductive inference and a form of confirmation bias (a tendency to search for or interpret information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions and avoids interpretations that contradict prior beliefs).
Arenas, a 24-year-old woman of color, had never designed for a political campaign, so she said she came into the project with no preconceptions of what Ocasio-Cortez's should look like, aside from knowing it had to be true to the candidate.
Trump should spend less time campaigning in places where he isn't even on the ballot (South Carolina) and bone up on some briefing books, start listening to some experts, including those who challenge his preconceptions, and start acting like the president of all Americans.
As a young actor coming up in the Irish theater, Aaron Monaghan was wary of the weight of tradition — the way that classic plays can have the life strangled out of them by preconceptions about how they ought to be performed, and what they mean.
Such is the tale of Joseph Papp, the man who took on City Hall — and the powerful urban planner Robert Moses, and the perhaps even more powerful preconceptions of the cultural ownership of one William Shakespeare — to become a titan of contemporary American theater.
Worse, I think, is that social media can have a way of mediating or even supplanting our experience of life, keeping us mired in the past, seeing through the filters and preconceptions of others to the detriment of our own vision of the world.
Fatphobia is built into our day-to-day lives—the clothes we wear; the healthcare we receive; the TV shows we watch—and it's going to take all of us unlearning our preconceptions, behaviors, and language to make space for all bodies in our world.
The EXP 12 is a car intended to challenge our preconceptions about what we can expect from an electric car, and it endeavors to bring Bentley's limousine-like qualities of luxury and opulence to a distinctly more compact form than its established Continental and Flying Spur models.
This conclusion might go against the grain of certain preconceptions of business success, that an effective manager must dispense with niceties, pursue a course of ruthless domination and generally take on the mindset of a flinty-eyed predator – say, a lion, or a tiger, or a bear.
"We're looking at bilateral ways, while we're still members of the European Union, to achieve trade liberalization on a number of fronts on science and technology, and we are looking to scope out the future free trade agreement with no preconceptions attached to that," he added.
The willingness of people with disabilities to claim and hold the spotlight—as the New Republic's Sarah Jones has written—has helped to challenge our preconceptions about who relies on Medicaid ,and to make politicians confront those who will not be served by a market-based program.
But so long as society continues to require the presence of people like me — unelected, unpaid spouses — as some sort of vital window dressing to the affairs of state, we are obliged to re-examine our expectations and preconceptions of these all-too-often-female companions.
The slice of rib underneath the breast may prove a challenging proposition as an erogenous zone, but these were clothes that wore their concept lightly, sketching out a no-fuss melting pot of the mind without hesitation and making you think twice about your own preconceptions.
Her assemblage in Dialectics of Entanglement, "The Studio Visit" (1982), features a Black woman artist doll posed in conversation with a white woman curator doll who is framed (literally) in the miniature scene; Henry is referencing the "preconceptions and expectations" curators can impose on artists of color.
And in my experience, I have found that my own preconceptions of people when I meet them on the internet or when they're mean to me on the internet or I get in a fit with someone on Twitter, I'm always willing to think the worst.
" Whether that figure is a fabrication or not, the article cleverly tapped into people's preconceptions about Rita: she's a celebrity, not a singer, who seems to have perfected the art of winging it since she featured on DJ Fresh's Hot Right Now," a number 22018 single in 216.
We have a notion in our political discourse that the ideal citizen is one who is well informed about the issues of the day, approaches the candidates without any real preconceptions, and then makes a rational, informed decision about which candidate would best advance her interests and the nation's.
As architects based in Beijing, we were well acquainted with the world's cities and skyscrapers, but North Korea was a dark spot in our mental map — filled in, as it was for most people, by preconceptions and stereotypes that rendered the so-called Hermit Kingdom in black and white.
As they toured the island, including Wirata's family home in a mountain district near Lake Batur, Freedman realized her preconceptions—that Bali, with its tropical climate and time-honored cultural traditions, would be free from the complications and tensions that permeated her life in New York—were wrong.
Progressive Data Progressive Data One interesting point that the graphic does bring into focus is that, despite our preconceptions of either the entire left or the entire right representing a singular ideology, in fact it's primarily accounts on the far edge of these groups who do most of the talking.
The default strategy for science fiction and for fantasy is the strategy of estrangement: taking something that we are actually very familiar with, spinning it in a different way, and allowing us to approach it without all of our defenses, without all of our prejudices, without all of our preconceptions.
At the heart of the book is an 85-page chapter, "Memory and Creation," in which Boulez grapples with the problem of how history and tradition can both nourish and contaminate our capacity to encounter a work free from preconceptions — and how that impacts the task of creating something genuinely new.
He arrived just after 1 PM. I arrived with preconceptions about the story we already know so well: the one that begins in the early millennium with the breakout classic album Boy In Da Corner, the record that took a local lad from the East End on stages around the world.
Because it wasn't Fleetwood Mac, and there was nothing political or any set of labels or preconceptions that we had to follow, we were more ourselves as the two of us, in a strange way, than we might have been had there been any specific ideas about what we were trying to accomplish.
Likewise, Equity spokesperson Somma pointed out that the union's approach is essentially the inverse of what Mackintosh argued in the '90s — instead of insisting that productions must allow white actors to audition alongside actors of color, the goal is to allow actors of color the opportunity to change the preconceptions of auditioners.
He pitched a story about discovering the whereabouts of the once-famous Tattoo of Fantasy Island and, when the story was accepted, boarded a plane to L.A. Over the course of the three days they spent together, Gervasi got his story — and did so by erasing all preconceptions and actually listening to Villechaize.
Unlike lifestyle glossies like Southern Living and Garden & Gun (which is assiduously apolitical, despite what its name might suggest), these publications blast past sweet-tea-and-moonshine preconceptions to convey the nuances of a region where people are rarely as ornery and dumb as they're held to be in the national imagination.
But Mr. Wheeler, in his remarks on Wednesday from a room named after Rachel Carson, a marine biologist who helped start the modern environmental movement in the United States 56 years ago with her book "Silent Spring," made clear that he realizes that he has to overcome some preconceptions about his background.
In fact, the very Gorillaz concept that allowed them to bypass preconceptions and put such eclectic sounds at the top of the charts seemed to be what prevented them from ever having an album heralded as a classic – it's hard to grant cartoon characters the same credibility and esteem as a bunch of humans.
A few such pairs, cobalt and nickel for example (which actually share a slot in the published table), remained stubbornly out of kilter, providing evidence that atomic weight was really a proxy for some deeper structural principle Crucially, Mendeleev was not constrained, as Newlands had been, by preconceptions about how things ought to be.
Son's becoming the first Korean player to score in a Champions League final would not automatically override decades of preconceptions about what Asian players can and cannot do: Apertura, after all, still found clubs steadfastly resistant to Korean imports years after Lee and Park had helped PSV to the semifinals of the Champions League.
In the opening essay, on Seung-Hui Cho, the shooter who killed more than two dozen people at Virginia Tech in 2007, and the closing one, on white supremacy, Yang exhibits his talents as an essayist willing to risk confrontation, with his own preconceptions and with the orthodoxies of the liberal-to-left political spectrum.
Indeed, it is the less recognizable photographs that are often the most compelling, that make you think twice about the many ways visual artists were pushing the boundaries of their form while straddling the limitations of their job, and that demonstrate the preconceptions that come reflexively with the eye and memory of the viewer.
When your father-in-law is Rupert Murdoch — the mogul whose media empire has fanned a brush fire of conservative populism into a global political movement and whose Fox News arguably has more influence over U.S. politics than any outlet in American history — people have preconceptions about who you are and what you believe.
A huge number of those with IDD finish their education willing and able to work productively, only to find that their way to gainful employment largely barred by negative attitudes, erroneous preconceptions about their abilities and special accommodations that might be required, and a sense that such a "charitable venture" would eat into profits.
Born Prince Rogers Nelson in Minneapolis on June 7, 1958, the artist emerged as one of the most transformative figures in popular music, challenging preconceptions about sexuality, race, and the nature of music as art itself over the course of dozens of albums from the late 70s up through last year's HITnRUN: Phase One and HITnRUN: Phase Two.
Providing herself only as the means through which diverse ethnic Berber and Arab tribes could, if they chose, be photographed in their own attire and manner, the works were both an act of subverting the tired exoticisation of desert peoples and of invitation to self-representation, challenging preconceptions about a region that is anything but racially and culturally homogeneous.
"I've been here for almost 30 years and before that I was in various public jobs and I can't think of another program that is as effective as Thread is, and that is as shattering of preconceptions," said Robert C. Embry Jr., the president of the Abell Foundation, who has provided support and guidance to Thread.
I often overcame preconceptions about disability as a blind person with a sense of humor, but I soon discovered that when you are blind and then open your mouth to speak with a speech impediment, it is most likely that you are only confirming what they have already anticipated; you must have some deeper problem in the brain.
Assange and Wikileaks Depending on a reader's preconceptions, she or he will interpret Raffi Khatchadourian's article about the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, a ghostly global activist hiding out in a foreign embassy, as a portrait of either a self-involved, two-faced traitor to his own ideals or a crusading hero of the populace ("Man Without a Country," August 21st).
But it was running headlong into someone who held me and my expertise in such low regard — for no other reason than his preconceptions about who I was — that forced me to reckon with the notion that so much popular productivity advice, including some that I've dispensed, is accessible only to people who have the option to use it in the first place.
It is difficult, if not impossible, to come to Lévy (hereafter referred to, in the abbreviated French manner, as B.H.L.) without preconceptions formed from seeing images of him, carefully coifed and wearing one of his studiously unbuttoned Charvet (so I gather) shirts as he gives interviews, or from reading one of the many, alternately fawning or vilifying articles about him.
Today, a year on from the peace agreement between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC), which ended fifty years of armed civil conflict that caused over two hundred thousand deaths and displaced nearly seven million people across Colombia, women are re-negotiating their roles on the streets, using graffiti to challenge preconceptions relating to gender, race, sexual violence and then some.
Ratliff shares a number of admirable traits with Farber, not least his boldness (he doesn't give a damn if he's trampling on your own musical tastes or preconceptions: Just shut up and listen to what I have to say) and a capacity for surprising takes on individual songs or artists that at first may seem to come out of left field but, finally, make perfectly good sense.
That is, it manages to present a cross-section of the chosen region's artistic output without reliance on stereotypical images; without pandering to preconceptions (which, for Finland in particular, tend to circle around the suomi-kuva or national image of the "strong-willed, taciturn, hard-drinking individual who has the cool head to cut through undue fuss, theatrical behavior, and exaggeration," as Richard Lewis put it in Finland, Cultural Lone Wolf).
Even among members of the public not affiliated with either campaign, opinions on the debaters' answers varied sharply based on political preconceptions: in a YouGov poll conducted on behalf of The Economist on October 19803st and 2nd, an overwhelming majority of Mrs Clinton's supporters thought their candidate had landed the most blows, while a majority of Donald's Trump's thought he won, or at least drew level (see left-hand chart).
" On his return to London, Bowie went on to push for an exhibition of contemporary South African art in the UK to coincide with africa95, a festival of African arts in the UK. His hope was that this would "challenge our preconceptions of 'otherness' and establish African art as being some of the most tantalising and provocative work to be seen," adding that, "if we continue to categorize art that is outside our cultural experience as somehow 'low art,' curio or merely artefact, we will be dealing these artists a serious injustice and we ourselves will be far poorer for it.

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