Aesthetic judgements, regardless of trends or received wisdom, are subjective.
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This depressing view of recent decades has become received wisdom.
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Everything he tells us is clearly received wisdom at best.
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The questioning of institutions and received wisdom is a democratic virtue.
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Austen is pointedly teasing the received wisdom of people like Mrs.
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It's as close to received wisdom as you can get in business.
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"The received wisdom is that it's impossible to change culture," he says.
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A president ignores all of this received wisdom at his own risk.
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FOR centuries the received wisdom was that the Renaissance started in Italy.
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For years the received wisdom was that the remedy for informality was development.
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"Radical Markets" is refreshing and welcome in its willingness to question received wisdom.
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But Oakeshott's was a rare voice rejecting the received wisdom of the day.
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These days, voters no longer need to wait for received wisdom to form.
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The safest assumption for this year is that received wisdom will be overturned again.
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First, I'd say that that was probably the received wisdom in America in 1931.
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Or: Contrary to received wisdom, the American school system actually favors girls, not boys.
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The received wisdom says the political class made its big mistakes on the latter one.
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The received wisdom is that returning utilities to the public sector will be exorbitantly expensive.
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And contrary to some received wisdom, he did not cost George H.W. Bush the election.
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Received wisdom held that if Chelsea were to stumble, it would have happened last week.
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What becomes received wisdom, so that we get trapped and can't think outside of it?
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Dennis Johnson's "Democracy for Hire" describes the received wisdom that prevailed for decades before Mr Trump.
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I think that we have a lot of received wisdom about this that isn't quite true.
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Poetry's wordplay — what Gerard Manley Hopkins called "common language heightened" — can combat clichés and received wisdom.
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Received wisdom is that the city's art schools are its initial draw and its social nuclei.
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Bourbon is clearly for Old Fashioneds, whiskey sours, and mint juleps, according to the received wisdom. Rye?
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The received wisdom that the army's rampage claimed 10,000 lives is probably an underestimate, the report argues.
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America's constitutional commitment to free speech is founded on an ability to skeptically assess all received wisdom.
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Our civilisation, science and laws have all been forged by people who followed new paths outside received wisdom.
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Over all, Pitsiladis's research is meant to explore and possibly buck the received wisdom of the running world.
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Still, the received wisdom about how debates will affect the polls can often be premature or simply wrong.
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The received wisdom was once that a unified, unbounded web promoted democracy through the free flow of information.
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Success for Trump in November would seem to call into question much of the received wisdom about campaigning.
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In their drastic departures from received wisdom on the mainland, both books merit attention by Anglophone readers, too.
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To understand why the theorem made a splash, it helps to understand the pool of received wisdom it disturbed.
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Since the 211s the received wisdom in Europe has been that the post-war welfare state was past its peak.
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And as she frets several times throughout the book, Jews aren't always the best exemplars of their own received wisdom.
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Received wisdom in business is that young companies innovate so naturally they don't need help or special programs to foster innovation.
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The received wisdom is that work is becoming low-paid and precarious, with jobs lost to automation and the gig economy.
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Another is that, contrary to received wisdom, China may be able to raise its environmental standards without paying a high price.
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But the results of a new study go directly against this commonly received wisdom and gives hope to cheese addicts everywhere.
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Contrary to received wisdom, however, the immigration issue did not play to Mr. Trump's advantage nearly as much as commonly believed.
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These examples are powerful because they show, contrary to received wisdom, that the taxation of capital and globalization are perfectly compatible.
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Drive-By Truckers "Surrender Under Protest" (ATO) A great Southern band in unbeatable form, jabbing at received wisdom and curdled traditions.
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His willingness to challenge received wisdom irked members of the Alpine Club in Mayfair, who barred him from two expeditions to Nepal.
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The CIA created conditions that subverted the essential task of an intellectual: to cast a critical eye on orthodoxy and received wisdom.
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I also see a lesson in the ways the author chooses to ignore the received wisdom about the novel as a form.
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" Albert Einstein: "Einstein's contempt for authority ... led him to question received wisdom in ways that well-trained acolytes in the academy never contemplated.
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That sort of received wisdom doesn't have to be wise, really; at this point, we know that a lot of it really isn't.
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There's nothing wrong with challenging the received wisdom, and modern monetary theory does identify flaws in how mainstream policymakers have viewed the world.
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Being in the Champions League, received wisdom has it, means access to a higher caliber of player when trying to strengthen a squad.
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With Europe fragmented into lots of states, an intellectual who challenged received wisdom, and thus incurred the wrath of the authorities, could move elsewhere.
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For artists that means either accepting business wholesale as received wisdom — which often turns people into single-minded self-promoters — or rejecting business outright.
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Cortázar takes a different view, believing that subverting hegemonies of language are possible through questioning and distancing, through rejecting received wisdom and familiar platitudes.
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And Burnham challenged the years of received wisdom that shooting people looking at their phones was about the least cinematic thing one could put onscreen.
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And again, this idea that pops up of Dada situating itself as anti-tradition, anti-figurative art, anti-received wisdom of what art should be.
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In this most apocalyptic of presidential races, the received wisdom among liberals is that a victory by Donald Trump would represent the ultimate national disaster.
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There's a received wisdom that sex offenders are in constant danger while inside from other prisoners, who regard "nonces" as the lowest of the low.
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Contrary to received wisdom, the absolute worst thing that the United States can do for the Iranian people is to stay silent and do nothing.
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It is now received wisdom that ideas-rich firms are better suited to private capital than to public markets, with their endless disclosures and distracting spotlight.
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It's the one thing we all do, all at once, passing, like rites, as tight bodies of received wisdom moving from one microgen to the next.
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They didn't want to do anything Marxist or pan-Africanist or against the received wisdom of international experts, financiers, or the people who already held capital.
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All this lent support to the received wisdom that the tech industry is best left to its own devices without the interference of a clueless legislature.
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She also takes on ritual gang rapes by athletes, the toll that drugs take on nice people and the received wisdom of certain males about women.
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It's certainly been received wisdom in the Valley for the past decade that tech startups should delay going public as much as private investors will allow it.
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The book is an exercise in rethinking received wisdom and offers a lot of counter-intuitive insights that will help you see the world differently than others.
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Victory helps that, of course, but so does spectacle: The received wisdom, at least, is that audiences have not only to be consistently impressed, but charmed, too.
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"We were expecting to find an association between intellectual engagement and the trajectory of decline and the received wisdom of 'use it or lose it,'" Staff noted.
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Contrary to received wisdom, the overall number of university students has fallen, not risen, in England since the rise in tuition fees ("Fees high, foes fume", July 21th).
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At the time, the received wisdom was that it was easier to import American rap and R&B than to take a punt on more local, underground flavors.
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The idea is that received wisdom should be tested and challenged, and that doing so makes the United States and other democracies more resilient than their authoritarian rivals.
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He argues that, contrary to Washington received wisdom, the Army is playing a significant role in the Pacific and is likely to enhance that role with additional deployments.
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Received wisdom in some quarters notwithstanding, it is by no means impossible for America and her allies to pressure the DPRK if China does not cooperate (see previous paragraph).
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Two of his aphorisms—that "the future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed" and "the street finds its own use for things"—have become received wisdom for futurists.
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In the book, Oster recounts the choices that she faced during her pregnancy and tackles such topics as prohibited foods, weight gain, and C-sections, frequently dismantling the received wisdom.
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It would be easy to read "Eighth Grade" as a simple cautionary tale — the following should be read in the disproving voice of adult received wisdom — about Kids These Days.
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A winning celebrity profile requires a number of stars aligning: a subject willing to be transparent, a writer interested in challenging received wisdom, a circumstance that's not constrained or contrived.
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Willy Shih, a professor at Harvard Business School, says the coronavirus pandemic is an opportunity to rethink the received wisdom that offshoring is the best and only way to operate.
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The received wisdom is that since the Brexit referendum, with UKIP's goal essentially achieved, these white working-class voters in former industrial areas will be mopped up by the Conservatives.
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I think we say big important things, but I wish that we were in a world in which saying those big important things ... Was received wisdom and you could move on.
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What Dr. Sparrow called his "combination of curiosity, questioning received wisdom, and careful observation," in researching parents and children also helped so many doctors understand both sides of that reciprocal relationship.
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In keeping with the received wisdom, those taking LSD microdoses reported a remarkable increase in feelings of determination, alertness, and energy, as well as a strong decrease in feelings of depression.
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Wen Feixiang, IT Juzi's founder, says that it is becoming received wisdom that to grow into a unicorn, a young firm has no choice but to join one of the two camps.
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Curtice, who said that the vote is too close to call, added: "Higher turnout is not necessarily good for Remain," which counteracts received wisdom that higher turnout should benefit the Remain campaign.
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Moana is the daughter of a Polynesian chief, being groomed to succeed her father and advise her people, but she's as much the recipient of received wisdom as she is its arbiter.
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Over the past five years, the idea that computer programming – or "coding" – is the key to the future for both children and adults alike has become received wisdom in the United States.
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Don't mean to shout lads, but if you like both music and cans it's a received wisdom that Primavera Sound is one of the best weekends you can chuck your money at.
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As Singaporeans debate the rather unusual appointment, the received wisdom is that the leadership's changing of the baton is causing concern as the previous changes have been so well-oiled and predictable.
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This is, anyway, the guiding principle of Eckhaus Latta, where the bicoastal Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Latta are preoccupied with explorations of material and challenging received wisdom about shape, gender and beauty.
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Following the rules is all well and good the other 11 months of the year, Libra, but in September you should throw off the yoke of received wisdom and cut your own path.
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His focus on issues such as immigration could win back voters who had drifted to the FN. Until recently, received wisdom was that populists on the extremes of left and right were resurgent.
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"Making an album this outré demonstrates a perverse sense of confidence, and also ignores the received wisdom about consistency and incremental change," Jon Caramanica wrote for the New York Times in his review.
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An artist should be someone running naked in the streets thumbing their nose at all received wisdom," while Reagon added, "We must try to understand why we were so destructive and change that.
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This study pushed really strongly against that received wisdom that people can costlessly move from sector to sector (although we knew it could cause a net reduction in wages for low-skilled workers).
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None of it is helped by what seems a studied disregard for the one useful, if hoary, piece of received wisdom about fiction writing, that it is generally better to show than tell.
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In a league in which no previous expansion team has posted a winning record in its opening season, Las Vegas's results so far challenge the received wisdom about the potential of such a squad.
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SINCE DONALD TRUMP was elected president, received wisdom has it, big business has run rampant in Washington, DC. The chief-executive-in-chief has filled his cabinet with fellow plutocrats, executives and, horrors, lobbyists.
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The secret of Mr. Bowie's illness countered the received wisdom that it's nearly impossible for public figures to hold information about themselves close in an age of 24/7 social media, email leaks and TMZ.
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The received wisdom in Washington is that deregulation will come from Trump-appointees at the Fed and other agencies, which fleshed out Dodd-Frank with their rules and can loosen them within the existing law.
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I don't want to claim it was such a big deal, but it got a lot of people's attention because it was definitely not consistent with our received wisdom — that trade was almost a free lunch.
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Each evidences a palpable thirst for trying new approaches to painting and subverting received wisdom, whether through the use of garish color palettes, the incorporation of sculptural elements, or the cutting and piercing of the canvas.
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Mr. Trump has continued to press that received wisdom in office — among other things, by hosting Prime Minister Theresa May in Washington on Friday, one of his first face-to-face meetings with a foreign leader.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Harking back to a previous era and ripping up a text book full of received wisdom, Leicester City's remarkable title triumph has been founded on a footballing philosophy that many had consigned to the dustbin.
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Case in point: California's universal blood disorder screening program has identified thousands of nonblack children with the sickle cell trait and scores with the disease — patients who, had doctors stuck to received "wisdom," might have been missed.
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While its celebration of racial diversity is received wisdom in NYC, ("immigrants -- we get the job done!" runs one of its most famous chants), perhaps it is more alien to some white voters in, say, Maricopa County, Arizona.
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Dr. Lin said the "current received wisdom" among linguists is that the widespread misunderstanding has something to do with the way Mr. Trump speaks and the unusual way he has used a phrase that many people find unfamiliar.
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Having had an Italian at its helm for eight years, and a Spanish vice-president, the received wisdom is that the ECB presidency now belongs to a northerner—if not to Germany, which has yet to hold the post.
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Mary Flynn, a research dietitian at The Miriam Hospital and the lead researcher on the study, had been wondering about the veracity of the received wisdom that a plant-based diet is more expensive than a meat-heavy diet.
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Chin is so good at remixing technological apparatuses to demonstrate the received wisdom on which they are based (plus the pitfalls and limitations of those ideas) that a viewer might easily be mesmerized by his supple and elegant facture.
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For now, at least, The New York Times is one of the few American news organizations that can still afford to keep a large staff of foreign correspondents overseas, in a position to challenge received wisdom and government spin.
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A pioneer for a new age in power dressing, she has long made a point of defying received wisdom that women should simply imitate the suit-centered uniforms of male leaders — though tweaked with a slightly brighter color palette.
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According to received wisdom, Rossini was so upset with the liberties Velluti took — adding countless embellishments — that he vowed from then on to write down every ornament in detail to protect his music from being disfigured and distorted by singers.
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Going in, I had a sense of this received wisdom, that I assumed the 803s was this complete break with tradition where punk rock and hip-hop supplanted 60s psychedelic music and old-school soul and completely new things were invented!
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The received wisdom after the close of the Cold War was that physical books were outdated, soon to be swept aside in the digital age; and that the internet was instead the real threat to governments seeking to repress provocative thinking.
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Crase's view — one of many that he carefully develops in this indispensable book — challenges the received wisdom that the "bricoleur" impulse was imported to America from Europe, that we needed the writing of European intellectuals to understand what we were up to.
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Instead of going along with the received wisdom that the Jedi are virtuous crusaders for peace and justice, and that imperial oppressors have to be fought at all costs, Mr Johnson keeps questioning and mocking everything we took for granted about the series.
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The received wisdom is that The Beatles (its official title) is in fact anything but — the sprawling collection is a record of four men desperately struggling for space while straining against the chains that bound them creatively for their entire adult life.
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The received wisdom, at the start of the season, was that Klopp's target in his first full year in England would be to restore Liverpool to the Champions League, once a frequent destination for Liverpool but, since 2009, a most elusive goal.
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Ms. Massenet said that, after a decade of received wisdom that suggested online fashion sales were detracting from those made offline, Farfetch had impressed her with the fact that it could boost retail sales via both digital and bricks-and-mortar channels.
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"It's received wisdom among tax people that having two tax systems makes no sense," said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, an economist who served as director of the Congressional Budget Office and is now president of the American Action Forum, a pro-growth advocacy group.
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"There's a received wisdom that there is safety in these things because of the old 'invest in bricks and mortar' adage, but we just couldn't disagree with that more right now," said James Dowey, chief investment officer and chief economist at Neptune Investment Management.
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It is "received wisdom" that agencies nearly always prevail in establishing the reasonableness of their interpretations, wrote law profs Barnett and Walker in the forthcoming Notre Dame law review article, "Chevron Step Two's Domain," a draft of which the profs published on Dec. 4.
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The poisonous partisan divide in this country dates back to the Robert Bork Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 1987, and has been fed since then by the enduring conceit of liberals that only they have received wisdom, and all other thought is politically incorrect.
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But he does expect the outfits to make a person think about why we assume a jacket has to be worn on the back and trousers on the legs, about men's and women's wear and about how much of what we wear is decided by received wisdom.
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For that very same political left, the marketplace of ideas now is to be closed to those dissenting from received wisdom, defined as the arguments and assumptions serving the left's political interests, particularly in the context of the great crusade of the day, man-made climate change.
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So much of our received wisdom about animals and the way they supposedly behave and their personality traits are directly taken from the bestiary and have been so ingrained in western consciousness that they're like second nature to the way people still think about the animal world.
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Alan Abramowitz, an American political scientist, expressed his discipline's received wisdom with reference to his country's elections in an article in the Washington Post: When you're in the middle of a campaign there's a tendency for people, especially in the media, to overestimate the importance of certain events.
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It's that something in his particular brand of technological solutionism—which shares much overlap with key elements with urban design, like transit systems and energy use—is so intent on disrupting the received wisdom on any subject that it ignores many of the plain truths we already know.
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After a year that has shattered so much received wisdom on both sides of the Atlantic, perhaps there's some comfort to be taken in one nailed-down certainty: The chances of cricket ever displacing baseball, basketball or football in the bosom of the American public are close to zero.
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But another lesson from the contemporary fashion era is that when a talented designer dares upend the old order and received wisdom, dares hike the eye forward to where identity wants to go, it alters the landscape for everyone: See Phoebe Philo's first collection at Céline or Alessandro Michele's Gucci.
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THE received wisdom of the on-demand era of television is that people, young ones especially, want to watch their favourite shows anytime, anywhere and on any device; the "linear" viewing of a succession of programmes chosen by a TV station will fade, as viewers dine à la carte from Netflix, Amazon and Hulu.
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It's also a good moment to question orthodoxies and received wisdom, to ask ourselves if people are not, in fact, being governed by those who would obscure the truth from them, declaring certain things heretical, even as others seek to rip the world open in ways that terrify the high priests of politics and science.
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The arrest was a shocking turn of events for a man whom colleagues described as a thought leader in a medical movement to overturn decades of received wisdom and rethink treatments based on how effective they actually are, not on whether they are the traditional response to a complaint or the most profitable one for a provider.
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My colleague John Chen offered the received wisdom on this discrepancy this weekend, arguing that Valley entrepreneurs should take the traditional message of Labor Day to heart, encouraging them to create more equitable, fair, and secure workplaces not just for their own employees, but also for all the workers that power the platforms we create and operate every day.
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"Chin is so good at remixing technological apparatuses to demonstrate the received wisdom on which they are based (plus the pitfalls and limitations of those ideas) that a viewer might easily be mesmerized by his supple and elegant facture," wrote Hyperallergic's critic Seph Rodney in a review of Chin's exhibition Mel Chin: All Over the Place at the Queens Museum in 2018.
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Until about five minutes ago, the received wisdom was that grassroots Republicans prize ideological purity above all—yet in the New Hampshire primary on February 9th they handed a thumping win to Donald Trump, a New York billionaire who invited Hillary Clinton to his most recent wedding and thinks government should play a much bigger role in providing health care.
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Perhaps the most formidable obstacle to Macro's success is a body of received wisdom about why the world on our screens looks so different from the real world it ostensibly mirrors — ideas about how films starring black actors don't do as well in crucial overseas markets, or that Hollywood has no bias against women, or that Asian men can't be leading men.
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It is, rather, the cultivation of a certain kind of spirit: a passion for inquiry; an insistence on asking hard questions and challenging received wisdom; a reveling in argument; a productive tension between self-confidence and self-doubt; a robust faith in the ultimate attainability of truth; and a humble acceptance that our understanding of the truth will almost always be something less than complete.
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No doubt he was, in his usual incoherent, self-aggrandizing way, merely drawing attention to parallels between his surprise campaign and Britain's populist-fueled decision to leave the European Union: In both cases, so the received wisdom goes, simmering resentment among a forgotten, disparaged section of the public was stirred up by canny populists and visited defeat and humiliation on the complacent, smug political establishment.
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It's more than that, but also it is always that—there is a want at the heart of it that is unreasoning and unreasonable, and the little blips of transcendence that sports give us are the result of the dynamic tension between that ungovernable want and the rules and norms and various tiers of ritual and discipline and received wisdom that govern the game.
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In fact, well through the Cold War and all the way into the neoliberal decades that preceded Trump, the received wisdom in America about writers functioning under state patronage was that it was a feature of totalitarian societies and tinpot Third World republics, redolent of the constrictions of socialist realism and the power of culture apparatchiks who measured writers according to their conformity with approved ideas, dealing out censorship to the brave and prizes to the most compromised.
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So far in this year's presidential campaign, we've already seen that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE isn't afraid to rip up decades of received wisdom on some of the bedrock principles that have guided our nation's foreign policy—be it on NATO, free trade or nuclear proliferation.
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