| 单词 | notion |
| 例句 | On the evening of January 5, 1796, he was sitting in a coaching inn in Somerset when he jotted down the notion that would eventually make his reputation. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Do you want to hear my notion or not?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, everything that happened inside the DSS office was meant to hammer into these women the notion that society considered them criminals of a kind. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z A three-mile comet!—it was exactly the sort of extravagant notion that the whitecoats sought to consign to the historical dustbin. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It is surprising that we take information like this so calmly, as though it fitted in nicely with notions we’ve had all along. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z No one could match the smooth erudition of Bawden or the assured nihilism of Pirie, who strongly disliked the notion that some phages have tails or that TMV is of fixed length. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z There was the cloudy notion of hunger when I breathed the odor of new-cut, bleeding grass. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Etchmiadzin Cathedral still stands today, an impressive rebuttal to the notion that the period following the fall of Rome meant the temporary end of civilisation. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z They read my insistence as mere obstinacy, as foolishness, something that would quickly pass; and they had no notion how desperately serious the tale had made me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The notion of the earth whirling and hurtling through the cosmos was, in the end, fatally counterintuitive to the ancient mind. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Today, alas, you have to squint, and pretty hard at that, to get any notion of the tranquil beauty that attracted Innes. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The two Polish Annas surely had clear notions of what they loved and hated, but like the rest of us, they were limited in terms of vocabulary, and this made them appear less than sophisticated. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z She might get a notion to spit in my food for a solid week. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z He is always left with the uneasy notion that maybe any objective drapery is as good as any other for any emotion. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Whether they were shouting encouragement or mocking him he could not have said for certain, though he had a fair notion. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “I myself could not have acted in any other way.... The very notion, the very sense of defending the Motherland, was the duty of all the men and all the women too.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Few heeded the sign, and not even Bilbo yet had any notion of what it portended. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z But not yams, I had no problem concerning them and I would eat them whenever and wherever I took the notion. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He asked more about my notions of the Net as a second Enlightenment. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Legislation designed to preserve white supremacy entrenches this notion. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z By that time April had gotten out of the notion of wearing them to school. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z But such washroom notions have nothing to do with Josef and his experienced mauve bedroom. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Morris was simply bringing to the world of politics the very same notions that guide the business world. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “The notion of disappearing into the New Mexico desert for an indeterminate period,” he recalled, “disturbed a good many scientists.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, the notion of a memoir kept coming back to her. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z As she dressed a sudden notion came to her. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He has the notion that much information is unreliable and needs to be tested, and yet he seems incapable of performing sensible tests. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Once we grew older and drifted off to different cities, the notion of a "family reunion" no longer seemed ridiculous. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z In ovens, my mother said; but there weren’t any pictures of the ovens, so I got some confused notion that these deaths had taken place in kitchens. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z But right that minute I got the notion I’d like to keep a journal. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z As a result, the notion that he was supposed to manage the political factions in the Congress or in his cabinet never even occurred to him. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It was lucky that Fiver had not come out with this foolish notion in front of any of the others, especially as there was trouble enough already. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Obviously, the notion that the height of a mountain could be measured from sea level could establish itself only after this view had been abandoned. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Somehow she had gotten the notion that a dwarf lord- ling would be the perfect consort for her laughter Lollys, a large, soft, dim-witted girl who rumor said was still a maid at thirty-and-three. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The cosmic rays notion, though considered plausible, hasn’t been verified yet. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The yellow lord seemed amused by the notion. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It’s been about more than just an individual’s notion of her own beauty. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z But because Ruth was from Hailsham, somehow the whole notion came within the realms of the possible. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The notion that African Americans support “get tough” approaches to crime is further complicated by the fact that “crime” is not a generic category. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I should hove bad him killed after be did the others, he reflected, hut the notion made him nervous. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z One notion is that perhaps the singularity was the relic of an earlier, collapsed universe–that we’re just one of an eternal cycle of expanding and collapsing universes, like the bladder on an oxygen machine. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z They lost their sense of reality, the notion of time, the rhythm of daily habits. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Kathy held her breath, afraid of whatever notion was brewing in his mind. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z For a moment, and only for a moment, I entertained the notion that Davis might’ve helped his father disappear. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I can’t remember what gave me the notion or even if I really knew what a lawyer was. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z After breakfast, when they were clearing fallen branches from the porch, Tiller said, “I had a crazy notion just now.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z He’d take a notion that life was too much for him and start drinking heavier to forget it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, it was beyond him to set down his notions in a form that anyone could begin to understand. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z ‘I had no notion of what I was doing.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z This was actually used as evidence to support the notion that the extinction of dinosaurs was swift and emphatic–and so it was in geological terms. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The driver says he has no notion of who this Cuchulain was but he wouldn’t mind stopping one bit. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z This was of course a wild underestimate, but a radical notion nonetheless, and Buffon found himself threatened with excommunication for expressing it. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Nothing ever rode the Gytrash: it was always alone; and goblins, to my notions, though they might tenant the dumb carcasses of beasts, could scarce covet shelter in the commonplace human form. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The larger ggeh depend solely on this notion, that the lessons of the culture will be stronger than a momentary lack, can subdue any individual weakness or want. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z While these newly-born notions were passing in their heads, the perturbation of Elizabeth’s feelings was at every moment increasing. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z That each living thing was specially designed, that one species did not become another, were notions perfectly consistent with what our ancestors with their limited historical records knew about life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z North American researchers tended to scoff at the notion that some mysterious non-Indians had lived fifteen thousand years ago in the heart of Brazil, but South Americans, Pena among them, were less dismissive. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The farther north he got, the more famished his notions. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I suppose I’d had some sort of foolish notion that Bigwig would be waiting to meet us. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As usual, Mrs. Clare’s notions conformed with those of very few. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The surprising number of consecutive runs of heads or tails of various lengths give rise to further counter-intuitive notions. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Taking my cue from her queer expression, I knew that I had said something awful, but I had no notion at that moment just how awful it was. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z "Stop scaring yourself with crazy notions, you sound like you're on the bottle again." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Sheriff Jackson said, “The old folks what seent it say God took a notion to scratch his forefinger along the earth, meddling with humans jus’ for a laugh. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Their simplest words seemed to refer to something else, as did many of the notions that unfurled through my head. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z But the notion that climbers are merely adrenaline junkies chasing a righteous fix is a fallacy, at least in the case of Everest. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Thus he established an alternative to spontaneous generation—the notion that life could rise, in fermenting grape juice or rotting meat, entirely independent of preexisting life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The notion that giving a relatively small number of people of color access to key positions or institutions will inevitably redound to the benefit of the larger group is belied by the evidence. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The notion of white supremacy rationalized the enslavement of Africans, even as whites endeavored to form a new nation based on the ideals of equality, liberty, and justice for all. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It was my notion to be a farmer. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He’d ridden into their cities mounted on a spectral, after all, and most of them assumed he was from Weep—at least, until Thyon Nero disabused them of that notion. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I think I had this notion that love conquers all. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z One thing I got onto that morning, with the house full of Granny and empty of her at the same time, was the notion that she’d of hated dying so plain. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She tells me I better not get the notion she’ll be running up to this part of the world every time I have a little pain or a twinge. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z On the other hand there’s something menacing about this notion. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z One could only imagine how His Grace had responded to the notion of a second wedding in the midst of his war. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There was no such book, no such publisher, no such circle of learned men, but the notion stuck anyway. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “I was mistaken in the notion that I was become a man; I am still a child.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Whenever she let her dreams take her down hopeful avenues, this notion stirred her, that of the town coming into its own. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It all tied up with the notion of going to Canarsie. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I had the notion that they were calling to each other. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z “It’s that hydroponics notion,” Luke bragged to Jen one day in late January while they were sitting at the computer together. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z My notion was that every cell and street steward should know every person and family in his area, so that he would be trusted by the people and would know whom to trust. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Poetry was not simply the transcription of notions—beautiful writing rarely is. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The very notion of a republican king was a repudiation of the spirit of’76 and a contradiction in terms. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He was not my notion of a man burdened by such grave concerns. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The oak leaves wrinkled at the edges, though they had no notion of going anywhere for quite a long while. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z But it turned out the notion that being a middle kid was a form of child abuse was greatly exaggerated. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z And in studying the death-scene photographs Dewey had distinguished other details that seemed to support his notion of a murderer now and again moved by considerate impulses. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z A notion crept over her like a shadow: that this station was not the start of the line but its terminus. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Somehow she had a notion he wouldn’t fool easily. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Naturally, the notion that environmental geography and biogeography influenced societal development is an old idea. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We will have to give up the notion that death is catastrophe, or detestable, or avoidable, or even strange. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z This effectively meant that even though it took nearly six hours to get Mulch to the surface, he was injected into the field only moments after Root had the notion to send for him. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “My little niece calls him Wilbur. She’s a rather queer child—full of notions. She raised the pig on a bottle and I bought him from her when he was a month old.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z De Vries was not alone in rediscovering Mendel’s notion of independent, indivisible hereditary instructions. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z This is not, on the face of it, a particularly radical notion. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, the swallow couldn’t shake the vague notion that perhaps they were not. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Archaeologists and Indian activists, for once united, scoffed at this notion. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It thrilled him that he could make her smile, but he had the gallant notion that he should make best efforts, now, to do so in other ways. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z A prince hadn't a cockeyed notion how to fend for himself. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Birkway bounded around the room as if the opportunity to teach us was his notion of paradise. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z And if I suddenly have a notion that the earth is flat, I’m likely to believe that, too. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The notion that all of these reforms can be accomplished piecemeal—one at a time, through disconnected advocacy strategies—seems deeply misguided. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z So we thought it would be a good idea for her to be married to him, and since she was flattered by the notion, we’ve decided to call her Mrs. Beaverbrook from now on. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z God help us, those poor doctors don’t have a notion of not having. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z A vague notion began swimming through her mind; an answer. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z “What a silly notion, Elinor!’’ she muttered as she got back into the car. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Moreover, human beings were made in the image of God: a view hardly compatible with the notion that their senses were defective. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He snorted to show what he thought of such notions. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z ‘And anyway all these notions are only a trick,’ he said to himself. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z It did not occur to Browne that the notion of intellectual property owed as much to Columbus as to the printing press. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Shasta had had no notion of what a great city would be like and it frightened him. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z But I also think that all the kids in that SP class took away something very special, the notion that each of us had intellectual gifts to spend as we chose. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z We started off again, my thoughts enraptured by the notions that we were indeed free. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Later, Lombardy fought the notion of Fischer as a player who was totally self-sufficient, an island unto himself. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In the end the whole notion of goodness and badness will be covered by only six words—in reality, only one word. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z ‘Begging your pardon, Mr. Frodo,’ he said, ‘but have you any notion how far there is still to go?’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I had a notion that if we acknowledged our brokenness, we could no longer take pride in mass incarceration, in executing people, in our deliberate indifference to the most vulnerable. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Ample warning against such a notion is provided by the academic painters and sculptors of the nineteenth century, who were as a group among the most proficient artists in history—as well as the dullest. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I had the fanciful notion that perhaps we had died in the fire, that we were all lost souls, forbidden to enter heaven. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Papa claimed Jumper could clear the moon if he took a notion to see the other side of it. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The notion became the foundation of ice core studies, on which much modern climatological work is based. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Well, I don’t know that fifty is much for a dress, with all the furbelows and notions you have to have to finish it off these days.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The Court's rulings had become increasingly hostile to death row prisoners and less committed to the notion that "death is different," requiring more careful review. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The notion of the recent killings being the product of “age-old” hatred is therefore misleading. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The underlying problem was that Boukreev’s notion of his responsibilities differed substantially from Fischer’s. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z She might almost have been testing him; but he thought she had no notion of the stone's nature, to speak of it so lightly. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z “But if the physics-—the quantum physics— suggests that God exists, I’m more than willing to entertain the notion.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z ‘Can you entertain the notion that I might be here to help you, not simply because I want something?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z For a start, his radical notions questioned the foundations of their discipline, seldom an effective way to generate warmth in an audience. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The Shavepate had offered to set aside his wife for her, but the notion made her shudder. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “I don’t want Stuart to get a lot of notions in his head,” said Mr. Little. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z Hutton was much more the father of the notion than Lyell, but it was Lyell most people read, and so he became in most people’s minds, then and now, the father of modern geological thought. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z When the sheriff explained the charge in crude terms, Walter was incredulous and couldn't help but laugh at the notion. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I even have a funny notion that if I do die, maybe Peeta will be allowed to live. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Over the years, some English teachers have enforced the notion that conjunctions like and and but should be used only to join elements within a sentence, not to join one sentence with another. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z This phrase, uttered in my hearing yesterday, would have only conveyed the notion that she was about to be removed to Northumberland, to her own home. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Surprisingly, Baby Kochamma accepted this explanation, and the enigmatic, secretly thrilling notion of Men’s Needs gained implicit sanction in the Ayemenem House. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The notion was not shown to be all that mistaken, nor was it in conflict with any other, more acceptable view of things. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Their occasional apparitions disturbingly challenged the notion of an unalterable and divinely ordered Cosmos. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There was nothing that one could do to disabuse them of this notion. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Likewise, “united thoughts and counsels” stretches the notion of collective responsibility to the breaking point. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The waves chopped briskly as they rushed out to the bay and to the sea beyond, and Turner gave up any notion of trying to make it back to the island. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Many mundane mistakes in reasoning can be traced to a shaky grasp of the notion of conditional probability. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He too had been wary of the notion when it occurred to him. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z He got a notion that a boat ride off the Canarsie shore might wipe out some of the wrong her unnatural brother had done her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet she had successfully sold the notion to her circle in Miami that she was a Barnard girl. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Though I had no notion who Lopez was, I nodded knowingly. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z When I set sail, so to speak, I too assumed that the world was round, but what I encountered in the real India profoundly shook my faith in that notion. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Einstein couldn’t bear the notion that God could create a universe in which some things were forever unknowable. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I was innocent of the notion of angular size. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He thought that he hadn’t checked provisions of water, but he dismissed the notions because he wouldn’t be out long. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She dismissed the whole notion with a wave of her hand. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z But where there is no desire and no shame no one, however anomalous, is singled out; and I think Asra made no connection of this notion with myself and my peculiarities. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z It was an absurd and unnerving notion, but the evidence couldn’t be denied. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z There was a long pause while Naomi tried to think of some way of moving the conversation away from this notion. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The notion is not as ridiculous as it may seem. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I surmised the clearest notion of Protestant theology from discussions of the Reformation. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z This notion of rest, it’s attractive to her, but I don’t think she would like it. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Clayton agrees, but says, “The fundamental problem here isn’t the money; it’s the notion that the people these tissues come from don’t matter.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Still, those notions of good fortune and chance have blended so much that dictionaries now accept a hybrid definition—something fortuitous is a happy accident. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Madam had finally accommodated herself to the notion of his voyage and had found a way to turn it to her advantage. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Lord, the girl had no notion of what you did and didn’t do. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z “Where did you get a notion like that about your sister?” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Principles of Geology went through twelve editions in Lyell’s lifetime and contained notions that shaped geological thinking far into the twentieth century. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Likewise, the notion that the New Jim Crow can ever be dismantled through traditional litigation and policy-reform strategies that are wholly disconnected from a major social movement seems fundamentally misguided. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I sorted the new notions and tried to organize a button display. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z She would have stopped immediately had she not still been so completely bound to the notion that this was a bush, and that she was witnessing some trick of darkness and perspective. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In those first months at the Cottages, our friendship had stayed intact because, on my side at least, I’d had this notion there were two quite separate Ruths. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z When I was a little girl, my entire notion of love was to marry the soccer star. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Penelope's notion that the children ought to be brought inside at once and settled in the nursery met with some resistance from her walking companion, at least at first. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z I’ve known my father my entire life, and he knew me even before my life began, so it’s a funny notion, that I still have to get to know him. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z When I mentioned this notion to the Lady, she just shook her head. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z As I made my way back to Mrs. Platt’s house, I had a sudden notion to return by way of the College of Lucidity. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The government's November 1954 draft syllabus was a retreat from the original notion of modeling the school system on tribal foundations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The problem, you realize, is that while you have been raised to speak quietly and little, the notions of where you come from and who you are need a maximal approach. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But the notion of holding up a bowl and begging of anyone who passed continued to distress him. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Three aspirin, cold root beer, and a chain of Pall Mall cigarettes—that was his notion of a proper “chow- down.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z All he could conjure up were fleeting notions: He couldn’t stand up. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The world was one world, and the notion that a man might kill another over some small patch of it did not make sense—though Ishmael knew that such things happened. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “She’s got some sort of notion in her head concerning the eternal rights of women; and—you understand—we meet in the morning at the breakfast table.” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z The notion of blood purity led to brutal persecution of Jews, Muslims, and many others during the Inquisition and the Crusades. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The scythe waved his fork dismissing the notion. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The colorblindness ideal is premised on the notion that we, as a society, can never be trusted to see race and treat each other fairly or with genuine compassion. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But the romantic notions I had of the afternoon never materialized. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z For weeks, perhaps months, these children and their mothers cling to romanticized notions of how they should feel toward each other. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z They’d figured out how to make it work for them, and I gradually came around to accepting the notion that whether I liked it or not, this was how it was going to be. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Once he’d grasped the notion that he could get a job anywhere, he bolted from Idaho in a matter of weeks. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I wonder if he read that notion in my face; for, all at once, without speaking, he struck suddenly and strongly. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I wrapped the warm cloak around my shoulders and was struck with a sudden notion. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Not even at a notion as ridiculous as Miggery Sow becoming a princess. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z The Rosses tried to keep him home for a while because they said they didn’t want him getting an exaggerated notion of his own importance. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z "And you as well, cousin. I had no notion you had such a lovely voice." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Even the most liberal ones who had spent a lifetime fighting racial and social injustice and who cherished the notion of open-mindedness drew the line at the Midland border. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The notion that juvenile offenders are fundamentally different from adult ones lasted for more than eighty years. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Letting yourself go is an alarming notion; it is said of older women who become frowzy and fat, and of things that are sold cheap. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He did not relish the notion of celebrating his return by killing one of his own kin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Moreover, notions of how to judge empirical evidence vary from one enterprise to another. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z If I needed explanations at all, I conjured up vague notions about a war between America and Japan. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t agree at all with his notions of the world as being contaminated. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z It had been his notion to have the Brazen Beasts follow her betrothed and take note of all his actions. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Sherman asked, aware that none of us had the slightest notion. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I struggled to put the two notions together, but could not. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes, too, they talked of engaging in active rebellion against the Party, but with no notion of how to take the first step. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I wasn’t used to this whole notion of homework. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z The Mud Hens had a roster slot, and the scout had a notion to fill it with the pitcher with the wicked curveball, name of Earl Grayson. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “If that will be your married look, I, as a Christian, will soon give up the notion of consorting with a mere sprite or salamander. But what had you to ask, thing,—out with it?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z It was in my blood, you might say, and however the notion got there, it bothered me greatly. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought it was a ridiculous notion, but I helped her carry the furniture we could handle outside. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As it was for Gary Edwards, the notion of rules, of restraint, seemed ridiculous to Derric. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z His wife ruled out the notion, but still, the idea burrowed into him. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I realize that the men and Sherrie want to quell the notion. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z This view of things is compatible with the very old notion that a framework for meaning is somehow built into our minds at birth. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z From then on he wrestled with the notion of a wildwoman for a mother. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, it’s not like they can just let us die of thirst,” her mother adds, as if this notion were preposterous, but then waits for someone to chime in with validation. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I hastened to drive from my mind the hateful notion I had been conceiving respecting Grace Poole; it disgusted me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The neighborhoods it draws from are often called blue-collar, but that is an outdated notion, one based on steady union jobs at U.S. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Maybe he has no notion of the future, or does not bother or dare to imagine it. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z With its notions in mind I see my place in the universe. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The well sucked her sleep, but the notion of leaving frightened her. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I was trying hard not to face the notion growing inside me that I was no longer normal, no longer like my other friends. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Shin had only a vague notion of who the Great Leader and the Dear Leader were. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Mark officially decides to abandon his own notions for a while. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Bobby believed deeply in the notion that a play renews itself every day, in rehearsal or performance. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Even so, it was only that day, in that seafront café, that it really came home to me how important this whole notion had become for some veterans. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a simple notion, almost rudimentary, but accomplishing this in an actual game can be quite difficult. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She waves her hand like the very notion is a nuisance. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z Oh, I had a vague notion of green grass, soft and wavy. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The idea didn’t sit well with him, but neither did the notion that the girl was so sad now. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t have any grand notions about a calling. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Rush had no time for such silly notions, but he, too, sensed that something odd was happening. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z “It’s true. Your aunt had some odd notions. She taught the child herself. I disapproved, of course. Only leads to trouble.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z It was his notion that when I got grown, he would give me an interest in the store and take me into partnership. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z In the presence of his certainty, his notion that he could make some sort of difference in the world, I couldn’t help but feel a little bit lost by comparison. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I’m not letting any old-fashioned, fussy notions upset the best order we’ve had for ten years. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I hung up with a mixture of relief and anxiety, unable to shrug off the notion that I had been tested and had failed. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Somehow from this Gilbert concluded that the Moon’s craters were indeed formed by impacts–in itself quite a radical notion for the time–but that the Earth’s were not. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The notion was controversial in some evangelical circles but became widespread nonetheless, and it made the Assemblies’ faith more compatible with an upwardly mobile middle class. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Perilee had planted the notion that there were two or three bachelor neighbors who might pay me to do their laundry. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “I know most gunters cling to the absurd notion that IOI is evil. And that the Sixers are ruthless corporate drones with no honor and no respect for the ‘true spirit’ of the contest. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I said, smiling a little at the notion of Rahim Khan getting married. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Unless, it suddenly occurred to me—and here was an arresting notion—unless persuading yourself that you are not confused is merely a cruel, early symptom of confusion. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The latter notion—statistical testing of hypotheses—is simple in principle. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Brother Fowles, I have no earthly notion. I am a housewife from Georgia.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Such a notion is familiar to us from the cults of earth deities of later times; its origin perhaps goes back to the Old Stone Age. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z In doing so, he establishes that the ring is his territory, not theirs, a notion that he reinforces by shouting, by stomping about, by snapping his whip. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He rejected the notion that animals and plants suffered sudden annihilations, and believed that all the principal animal groups–mammals, reptiles, fish, and so on–had coexisted since the dawn of time. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z She had formed the notion that it was concerned with magic, with the movements of the stars and planets, with tiny particles of matter, but that was guesswork, really. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z We do not like the notion that there can be collective societies with the capacity to behave like organisms. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Like Tycho before him, he saw the supernova as undermining the Aristotelian notion of literally fixed and eternal stars. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Black success stories lend credence to the notion that anyone, no matter how poor or how black you may be, can make it to the top, if only you try hard enough. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Perhaps they lay in something more fundamental— the simple notion of everyone pitching in and pulling together. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Calmed by the notion that he was asleep, Gregor began to gauge his fall. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In truth, I thought he couldn’t help but sometimes punish us with the same notions and language that daily confronted him. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The notion that perhaps she had offered too much information was only now dawning on her. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z I’ve always suspected that notions like a “hot hand” or a “clutch hitter” or a “team that always comes back” were exaggerations used by sports- writers and sportscasters just to have something to talk about. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She gave up all kinds of social activity, obsessed with the notion that her body gave off a singed odor. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Now Wang Lung had never in his life begged of any man and he disliked this notion of begging of strange people in the south. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z He had vague notions of struggling to learn his letters while he worked in the coal mine, every day a battle to survive the dangerous work. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The notion that life is transient, that it can come and go quickly, unexpectedly, had been with me since I had seen my own father die. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z He had no notion who the boy might be. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z That notion was too costly for a man like him. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred, and there are few notions more stirring than the idea of a neighboring planet inhabited by intelligent beings. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But Victor’s astonishment was so genuine, and Mrs. Pontellier’s indifference so apparent, that the disturbing notion did not lodge long in her brain. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z This notion—blending inheritance—was already familiar to most biologists: it was a restatement of Aristotle’s theory of mixing between male and female characters. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I will not tolerate any romantic notions between the two of you, so banish the thought from your mind now. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z When Soma first approached me with the idea it was still just an intriguing notion. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z One of Freud’s closest friends, a surgeon named Wilhelm Fliess, invented biorhythmic analysis, a practice based on the notion that various aspects of one’s life follow rigid periodic cycles which begin at birth. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Before tackling this problem, however, we need to unpack the apparently straightforward notion of practical knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Maybe we’d be out in the middle of the field when Jumper got the notion that it was time to quit for dinner. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Bennet’s lovely face confirmed his views, and established all his strictest notions of what was due to seniority; and for the first evening she was his settled choice. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z She averted her eyes and behaved respectfully around the monkeys, because she did not want a monkey to get a notion in its head to spit at her. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, on the way out, I got a strange notion. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z It was a ridiculous notion, as well as petty and impolitic, but he hadn’t been able to resist. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Not that I humbled myself by a slavish notion of inferiority: on the contrary, I just said— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z When your senses leave you sudden-like and you start fallings you don’t have the time nor the notion to put your hands up so’s not to hit your head. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z She wondered whose notion it had been for them to ride in Joffrey's tourney. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z His essay began with the notion that all nature is at war, one organism with another, or with external nature. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The idea was to meet once a month to swap geological notions over a glass or two of Madeira and a convivial dinner. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Not that she was ready to act on these notions, but there was a slow thaw occurring within her. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z If you started on a wave crest, you would stay on the crest and lose all notion of it being a wave. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The imperatives of their collaboration, plus the need to present a united front against the Federalists, took precedence over their incompatible notions of where sovereignty resided in the American republic. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I thought Jesse was skeptical of the idea—he hadn’t said two words in response—but he immediately did what I later learned was his almost stock response to any notion, question, or suggestion. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The repeated “He,” has a sarcastic tone, and the hysteron proteron in the second sentence foregrounds this notion on which the argument turns: Is pride really a bad thing? Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z I knew he didn’t have the faintest notion why he was doing any of it, but he said, real impatient, “You ain’t got to tell me but once’t, Will Tweedy. What’s next?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Slowly emerging is the strange notion that randomness has an economic value. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The Tully marriage was his notion, never doubt it, he—” She broke off as Roose Bolton rose to his feet, pale eyes shining in the torchlight. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z That was the trouble with the clans; they had an absurd notion that every man's voice should be heard in council, so they argued about everything, end-lessly. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z As he knocked he got the weirdest notion: that he was being buffeted by black wings, as if an enormous crow was flying through him, out into the hall and the world beyond. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z “I want to see you live it. It’s more than a notion.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z I was glad ’cause I didn’t have notion the first what mis-sive meant. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z The whips were the property of the stolen truck’s rightful custodian, a cattleman; it had been Latham’s notion to use them as garrotes—which, after robbing the women, is what they did. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “I had no notion that he liked me so very much,” said Harriet, contemplating the letter. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z He laughed, as one would at a child with a silly notion, but it rang terribly false. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “I’m going to throw a wild notion at you.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z But she smiles her canny little smile in a way that makes me think it’s not a bad notion. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole dear notion of one’s own Self—marvelous old free-willed, free-enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self—is a myth. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was an absurd notion—there wasn’t anything remotely challenging or dangerous about the ridgeline—but you never know. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “If that free takes a notion to fall, it’ll mash you flatter than a tadpole’s tail.” look on his friendly face, he gave me a hurry- up signal with a wag of his tail. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z That was partly because of the tape; and maybe, if I have to be honest, because I was pleased by the notion that Ruth wasn’t taking the animals seriously, and everything that implied. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z It was this whole notion of lineage and background that had sent him back into the mines for a second shift. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z How could he give the award to a boy with such wild notions as this? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z For me, it’s the idea that she’s been considering us through her day, circling the notion of an act, picturing something while I’ve been away sorting through Kwang’s papers, filing, adding figures. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a wild, impossible notion, to be abandoned as soon as thought of; but the room had awakened in him a sort of nostalgia, a sort of ancestral memory. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The vast population of the city had not the vaguest notion of the great discoveries taking place within the Library. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z No one asked him, but he thought Lord Wyman's notion a splendid one. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She hadn’t meant it, and the poisonous thought—the shocking, inconceivable, unthinkable notion of the five of them doing harm to one another—had made Sarai ill. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Paine sure did dance a long time with the notion before he said it. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first time in my life I was faced with the notion that I would have to deal with the idea of race as a central part of my life. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z It is important here to distinguish between teleological history—the notion that history has a purpose or goal—and retrospective history, which seeks to study history as a process of development. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Those unfamiliar with horses might scoff at the notion of equine pride as a silly anthropomorphism, but the behavior is unmistakable. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z You always get exag-gerated notions of things you don’t know anything about. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z The one positive thing about Katz and his notions was that it was never very hard to talk him out of them. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Singer had planted a troubling notion, one that stuck in my mind. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The notion presented one drawback, of course: nuns, and anything pertaining to them, were bad luck, and Perry was most respectful of his superstitions. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z In the summer of that same year, Johnny got the notion that his children were growing up ignorant of the great ocean that washed the shores of Brooklyn. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The Dutch physician Jan Swammerdam dissected countless insect specimens to help dispel the notion that each phase of an insect was a completely different species of animal. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “My good friend Henry,” he said stridently, the strangeness of that notion hanging there for us. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z All of which brings us to the key point: the ancients, particularly in the classical period, had no notion that equates exactly with our modern conception of “science.” Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z But the hood taught me that everyone has different notions of right and wrong, different definitions of what constitutes crime, and what level of crime they’re willing to participate in. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Though death had taken my fellow orphans, and Dr. Bright's patients, I had never seen a man die at the hand of another, and had no notion of how I should react. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z But where had I got this notion of doing something in the future, of going away from home and accomplishing something that would be recognized by others? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Their ordinary moments—answering the door, cooking in the kitchen, dancing to Adina Howard—assaulted me and expanded my notion of the human spectrum. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I have just mentioned the notion of details that become lifesavers. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z There was, as I wandered through the streets, a continual popping and cracking as the guns on Copp’s Hill fired, though I have no notion of what they might have aimed at. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I thought they were our savings, but the notion didn’t seem to matter at the moment. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Since Aureliano at that time had very confused notions about the difference between Conservatives and Liberals, his father-in-law gave him some schematic lessons. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z It was the first but not the last time I toted along my middle- class notions about parenting, only to learn that Jesse had been almost completely on his own for years. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe I was making it all up, and queer marriage notions did not occur to other people. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She had come looking for her sister—no doubt with the exhilarated notion of protecting her, or admonishing her, and had heard a noise from behind the closed library door. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z If you think about this closely, though, it’s quite a radical notion. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The notion originated with Daisy's suggestion that we hire five bathrooms and take cold baths, and then assumed more tangible form as "a place to have a mint julep." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z But Darwin, in all truth, had misconceived the notion, and pangene would always carry the memory of that misconception. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z This is supposed to be for our protection, though the notion is absurd: we are well protected already. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The very notion that Jefferson should feel himself the injured party with the moral leverage to forgive her husband was a preposterous presumption. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I wasn’t even sure I wanted a man in my life again; by that time I’d exhausted the notion that the answer to a man is another man, and I was out of breath. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Here was the radical notion that you might help someone simply because they needed it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “You might just as well go around saying: ‘Don’t fight people,”’ causing the rest of the tribe to fall about laughing at the intrinsic ridiculousness of the notion. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The notion of blood purity based on a family’s history of being Christian traveled to what came to be called the Americas. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Theon thought of seeking out the bodies of the two men he'd slain himself to see if they had any jewelry worth the taking, but the notion left a bitter taste in his mouth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z With no notion of what their country is doing to his. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Through everything, she held fast to the notion that I didn’t need help, that all I needed was time to figure out who I was. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I have no idea if she had any medical certifications beyond a vague notion of CPR, but she pulled Grace’s sagging body to the ground all the same. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z So great was the badger’s anger and grief that she was oblivious to any notion of stalking or tracking. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z And here was I, with no real notion of being a player until a few weeks before, having the part handed to me. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Those developments include religious warfare, the notion that land should be private property, the concept of white supremacy, and the desire for gold. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z ‘I got this sudden notion he went down to your house. Help us hunt him.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Penelope felt suddenly cautious at the notion of having to interview her prospective employer. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Her ambitious heart almost stopped beating as this notion occurred to her. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Stated so baldly, this notion—that the indigenous peoples of the Americas floated changelessly through the millennia until 1492—may seem ludicrous. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The notion that we must understand the past in its own terms, though, can place historians under a perverse pressure to find someone in the past who can act as spokesperson for their own views. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A whole literature was soon dedicated to these notions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z People have a notion that animals can eat anything without the least consequence to their health. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I still had only a hazy notion of what the landlady was selling. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The notion that all racial caste systems are necessarily predicated on a desire to harm other racial groups, and that racial hostility is the essence of racism, is fundamentally misguided. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Used to be a notion that witches killed folks with the blood from this root,” Mr. Chris said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z And the brushing little worm of a notion was beginning to tickle him now. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tomorrow I will tend to your aching bones. I have a notion for a new medicine, made from mallow roots that grow in the marshes,” I said. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Historians tend to discount Gorges’s tale, partly because his memoirs, dictated late in life, mix up details, and partly because the notion that Tisquantum was abducted twice just seems incredible. “utterly void,” Dermer reported. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Up to now, Frog had no notion that their commander knew he was alive. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I didn’t have notion the first what a bear-fighting dog would look like so I hoped five stones would be enough in case me and it had a disagreement. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z The press trumpeted the notion that I had been betrayed by white and Indian Communists who were unsettled by my suggestions that the ANC must become more Africanist-oriented. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the beginning, Inigo had all kinds of wild vengeance notions, but gradually, simplicity had seemed the better way. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Growing up in a home of abuse, you struggle with the notion that you can love a person you hate, or hate a person you love. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Eventually the notion to take another look filtered down. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The whole would be, as MacKaye ecstatically described it, “a retreat from profit”—a notion that others saw as “smacking of Bolshevism,” in the words of one biographer. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I’d never labored under the false notion that my mom was infallible. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z It was a disturbing notion . . . and there was the other matter, the business with Catelyn and the dwarf that Yoren had warned him of last night. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It told of Personal Legend, and of the many men who had wandered in search of distant lands or beautiful women, confronting the people of their times with their preconceived notions. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They are as big a nuisance as the pigeons, to my notion. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z But these ideas do not rescue the notion that the Viking lander experiments indicate life on Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For some, the notion that black communities are severely stigmatized and shamed by criminality is counterintuitive: if incarceration in many urban areas is the statistical norm, why isn’t it socially normative as well? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z This was indeed a disturbing notion, for it was not hard to see that Miss Kenton's departure would constitute a professional loss of some magnitude, a loss Darlington Hall would have some difficulty recovering from. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “I had some notion that I would find myself here, as a poet, of course, but it wasn’t just that.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Huddled together in the dining room and waiting for the sun to rise, none of us had any notion that a way of life had ended. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Her own were grim enough, and she wasn’t faced with the notion of burning people alive. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Anyone who tries to occupy this ‘best of both worlds’ position needs to face up to a further challenge, that of fleshing out the notion that nature pushes back. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z No follower of Wittgenstein can accept the notion of ‘evidence’ uncritically—indeed, some would claim they cannot accept it at all. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Sorry, Amelia, but if I let you carry on about her moral duties when the girl plainly has no notion of them herself, this conversation will last all night.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “Do nothing to disabuse the public of this notion.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Where in the name of sense did you get a notion like that?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Nobody knows why the notion stuck— possibly because it’s closer to Latin grammar, or perhaps because the word preposition means “position before,” which seems to suggest that a preposition can’t come last. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He was scared to think about it, to even entertain the notion, but he found that once he’d acknowledged it, its roots dug into him, refusing to let go. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z They studied the pieces of map but he’d little notion of where they were. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Suzanne’s cancer was the first real challenge to that notion, a sabotage of my ideals. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z So the whole notion of replication, in the view of those who argue in this way, is misleading, and there is nothing transparent about experimental knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A news chyron on the same network had referred to me as “Obama’s Baby Mama,” conjuring clichéd notions of black-ghetto America, implying an otherness that put me outside even my own marriage. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z So that put him in the notion he ought to have one. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z In fact, although I couldn’t attest any of it to three decimal places, I had a pretty good notion of the weather conditions generally, on account of I was out in them. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Michael gets a notion in his head that this is Africa and keeps asking, Where’s Tarzan? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z It might be wiser to wait on Jaime until she had a better notion of what was happening beyond the walls of the Great Sept of Baelor. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Did she really think she could hide behind some borrowed notions of modern writing, and drown her guilt in a stream—three streams!—of consciousness? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z For thousands of years humans were oppressed—as some of us still are—by the notion that the universe is a marionette whose strings are pulled by a god or gods, unseen and inscrutable. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole notion was kept deliberately hazy—in fact, it was pretty reminiscent of the way we’d dealt with sex at Hailsham. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Most relevant here, though, is that the Pythagoreans were willing to entertain the notion of a spherical earth, and a nongeocentric cosmos. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z There is the deep and appealing notion that the universe is but the dream of the god who, after a hundred Brahma years, dissolves himself into a dreamless sleep. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When she’d first stumbled across the notion of Wyrdgates, days ago, it had seemed interesting, and so she’d researched, digging through piles of old parchment, only to find more puzzling theories. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I kept very still, waiting for a clue that would give me some notion of what to do. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z It is still a fairly astounding notion to consider that atoms are mostly empty space, and that the solidity we experience all around us is an illusion. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Your grandfather has the foolish notion that we should go into trade,” explained Mother. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The old, clung-to notions most of us have held about our special lordship are being deeply undermined. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Nonviolence was a tough notion for Ann to embrace, but she tried not to strike back when police shoved her or when white hecklers spat on her at demonstrations. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe it is a European notion,” Miss Adebayo said, “but in the bigger picture, we are all one race.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z "It would seem he has met some trouble on the road. My lord father is quite vexed. You would not perchance have any notion of who might have wished my brother ill, would you?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Reynie thanked him gratefully, noticing as he did so that a number of parents were casting grumpy looks at the man, apparently disliking the notion of being friendly to competitors. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z I think we are all about to reinvent our notions of hell. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Weirdest part is I usually love my body, but the notion of him not liking it makes me question things. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Penny’s lot was even worse, since the cook had put about the notion that squeezing a dwarf girl’s breast might be just the thing to win their luck back. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z That notion was often accompanied by the argument that women didn’t need the vote at all, since their interests were perfectly safe in the hands of men. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The notion that most illegal drug use and sales happens in the ghetto is pure fiction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The notion was frightening, for now the world seemed to flow before my eyes. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z How could a notion that went so deep and caught up so much of him in one swoop of emotion be wrong? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z As the unsuspecting prey went around the end, still adjusting to the slightly surreal notion of practicing football indoors on a basketball court at seven-twenty in the morning, Ivory just smacked him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Celia had only vague notions about spiritual possession and animal sacrifice, and suspected that our rites had caused her daughter’s mysterious disappearance. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z What kind of justice would it be for Deborah if I embraced the very notions of division that killed her? How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I disabused him of this notion, and he relented, giving me all that I had sought. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Would I, filled with bookish notions, act in a manner that would make the whites dislike me? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, and Ah makes and sucks ’em when de notion strikes me. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z But there’s a Sufi story that challenges the notion that people believe only because they need an opiate. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z The only notion Lyra had of the search for her was the incessant drone of the gas engines of airships crisscrossing the skies. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z On top of that, he’d expect Mama to cook him up a good dinner and maybe a supper if he took a notion to stay that long. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Whatever it was, the notion of her facing them alone gutted him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Soon after, the study erroneously credited with the notion that listening to classical music, particularly the music of Mozart, made you more intelligent. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z But in my writing life, I at least have some notion of procedure: do the research, make the outline, rough out a draft, etc. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Farmer seemed to care less about the notion that someone should be considered innocent until proven guilty than about preserving a thin-edged calm in a jittery country. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z At the same time I was filled with awe and with a startled wonder at the notion that this girl, this orphan, could become such a queen. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Then just as she started to reach for the first limb a terrible notion came over her. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I think of Haymitch’s sneering at my plans to flee District 12, start my own uprising, even the very notion that District 13 could exist. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He told folks my arm and my eye were so true that I could knock the spots off a ladybug without harming her atall if I took the notion to do so. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z She didn’t say anything, though, and I could see that she was trying her very best to stay quiet, to think around the notion for a moment instead of steaming right through it. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z And without the fact, the new notion that knowledge is grounded in evidence, not authority, might have received only the sort of inconsistent and unreliable endorsement that we have seen it receiving from della Porta. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z If the Bureau had acted on this notion, Regina Fischer might have actually become a counteragent, a spy, for the U.S. government. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Margaret was first surprised and then delighted at the notion of giving a dancing lesson to the children. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Men adjust themselves to their land; they create their own laws of being; their notions of right and wrong. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z ‘I can entertain the notion that you might be here for multiple reasons.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “I thought we’d disposed of that notion, Malcolm. Those dead children—did I tell you what he did to their dæmons? It was the most ingenious...” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z And the very notion that a candidate should openly solicit votes violated the principled presumption that such behavior itself represented a confession of unworthiness for national office. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z This was a new notion to me and a curious one. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z It had always been a notion of his that the kindness of dear Mr. Frodo was of such a high degree that it must imply a fair measure of blindness. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Mingo would never be more than an opportunist, harassing the farm with his own notions about colored advancement. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Sitting in my office, drying my tears, reflecting on my brokenness, it seemed like a laughable notion. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The Strategic Defense Initiative brings thoughts of destruction and salvation, and even here the notion of trade-offs can play a useful role. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Traditional notions of the king in society, after all, brooked no possibility of “exploitation” in the modern sense. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The refugee Hungarian physicist had placed the very notion of atomic weaponry on the federal government’s radar in 1939, when he prompted Albert Einstein to alert Franklin Roosevelt to the military potential of nuclear fission. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I don’t particularly hold no truck with the notion, since being a Negro pretty much puts me in the inferior column. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “Exactly. I have always liked the notion that the American twins were actually a poltergeist phenomenon; certainly poltergeists can overshadow any more interesting manifestation. Bad ghosts drive out good.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z How does some music, such as rap, challenge our original notions of speech and music by integrating speech as part of the music? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z She had a notion about the air down here and its ameliorating effects on the circulation. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z In return he gained the eternal fear of any slave with a notion to learn his letters. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z But Victor’s astonishment was so genuine, and Mrs. Pontellier’s indifference so apparent that the disturbing notion did not lodge long in her brain. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z For years, the notion was unproven, somewhere in the realm of received wisdom or suburban myth. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The notion that there could be anything to correct for. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He didn’t like the notion that he was the only one who held his gun that way. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z Most of his notions about corporate and office work came from reading Dilbert. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z This is a natural notion and can still be encountered, although it does not account for the invisibility of objects in a darkened room. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Mi’kmaq in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia scoffed at the notion of European superiority. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The second of the principles of epidemics — that little changes can somehow have big effects — is also a fairly radical notion. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Well, now I have at least some notion of where we are!’ said Merry. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z "Have you any notion of where Nick is likely to take the book?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The manifesto utterly rejected the notion of trusteeship, the idea that the white government somehow had African interests at heart. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It has nothing to do with passion or love or romance or any of those other notions we used to titillate ourselves with. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He wore a heard that had been cut square across the bottom with shears and he had a tattoo of a bird on his neck done by someone with an informed notion of their appearance. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “I had this crazy notion that maybe we all ought to have some rehearsals.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z I couldn't explain myself to anyone because I was only full of excited urges and notions and desires, kind of like the Hulk before he transforms. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The notion of an ambush rather than an open fight cheered the men. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z How ridiculous is the notion that I’ve made another human being feel like less of one? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z If I had had any notion of what actually lay in store for me, I might not have wished so hard for it. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The notion came to him that they were holding him to blame for the mid-air crash and the death of Nately. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Is this what I’d been angling for, with my notions of rescue? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z But there was her promise to Abuelito, and the twins to look after, and also the unbearable notion of spending her days in Henry’s house. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Even today, when so much about the myth of the macho no longer concerns me, I cannot altogether evade such notions. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The conductor loves the notion that you can be made anew, free of sin and therefore worthy of love and salvation. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Much less data support the notion that Old World bacteria and viruses turned the New World into an abattoir.* 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Prior to the Bostick decision, a number of lower courts had found absurd the notion that “reasonable people” would feel empowered to refuse to answer questions when confronted by the police. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She made him speak in lines that were difficult to sound-bite, discrete units of ideas, notions. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘O—K—And after church I got a notion I ought to go and set with Father for a while—just a short while.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z No one dared to disobey him, even though half an hour later he had forgotten his previous foolhardy notions and wandered off to hunt worms. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z At the time I didn’t know what Kwang meant by that last notion, what kind of dominion or direct influence he had over people like Baeh. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Nobody had ever thought of street lamps and some of them said it was a useless notion. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z When the Flop lost his balance and toppled to the ground, we got other notions. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z While I abhorred the notion of British imperialism, I never rejected the trappings of British style and manners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “In general, I adhere to the notion that things belong in the class to which they have been assigned—which leads us to the periodic table. No, no more about the pelican.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “But, do you know, I have a notion to go down to the beach and take a good wash and even a little swim, before dinner?” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z As sociologist Bruce Western has shown, the notion that the 1990s—the Clinton years—were good times for African Americans, and that “a rising tide lifts all boats,” is pure fiction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The very notion that I’m devoting any thought to who I want presented as my lover, given our current circumstances, is demeaning. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Your Honor, this boy had no notion before he murdered, and he has none now, of having been wronged by any specific individuals. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Erickson and Balee belong to a cohort of scholars that in recent years has radically challenged conventional notions of what the Western Hemisphere was like before Columbus. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She had never understood the quarrel with malls, with the notion of finding exactly the same shops in all of them; she found malls quite comforting in their sameness. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z While he did not spell out what this meant, I had a notion of what he was talking about, and I merely nodded. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The notion that black people have always been united in opposition to American caste systems is sheer myth. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But one need not oppose abortion on moral or religious grounds to feel shaken by the notion of a private sadness being converted into a public good. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He had plenty of experience of change, sometimes for better and sometimes for worse, but he had no notion of irreversible change, and he had no notion of progress. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was also unusual to find teachers who demanded from students their very best, who refused to succumb to the notion that there was no reason to challenge them because they simply didn’t care. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z So many events had taken place in just a few hours that I had completely lost all notion of time. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d spent less time in his mind than in any of his fellows’, and so she had only a passing notion of his expertise, and even less of his thoughts and plans. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The notion came to her soon after she started at Vocational. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I had no notion of where I was being taken. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Or is life so filled with random action that the very notion of caution is futile? Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The funny thing was, I never really bought into Kim’s notion that they were somehow bound together through me—until just now when I saw her half carrying him down the hospital corridor. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve no more notion where I was born than you have—if so much. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Production engineering, Gow reflected, “is a very expensive game and none of us, including Ernest, had the faintest notion what it meant.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The young Einstein rebelled against the notion of privileged frames of reference in physics as much as he did in politics. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The notion of studying German or abnormal psychology flitted through my head. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z And at least two well-known scientists, the astronomer Ernst Öpik and the chemist and Nobel laureate Harold Urey, had also voiced support for the notion at various times. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Mama Tataba hangs the whole big family of bananas up in the corner all together, so the tarantula spiders that use it for their house can just move on out when they take a notion. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She had returned from Cambridge with a vague notion that her family was owed an uninterrupted stretch of her company. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It was funny, the notion that he could frighten her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z They bought right into the notion that they had a job to do. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z As the days of World War II receded into memory, so did the notion that riveters and gas station attendants and munitions experts and, yes, even mathematicians would, or even should, be female. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z My siblings had already instilled the notion of black pride in me. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “You took a simple gesture as an excuse to humiliate me. Do you have some delusional notion that you have a right to me?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Eilonwy herself admitted she had never explored the passage; her blithe confidence did not convince him she had the slightest notion of where she was going. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Any notion that drug use among blacks is more severe or dangerous is belied by the data; white youth have about three times the number of drug-related emergency room visits as their African American counterparts. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Not long ago, when Tommy and I were reminiscing about all of this, he thought we’d never really believed in the notion, that it was a joke right from the start. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The fact that confinement prevents one from observing an isolated quark or gluon might seem to make the whole notion of quarks and gluons as particles somewhat metaphysical. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Of these death-white realms I formed an idea of my own: shadowy, like all the half-comprehended notions that float dim through children’s brains, but strangely impressive. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z And, in fact, the notion had indeed been lurking somewhere in the back of Al Ulbrickson’s mind for a long while now. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z My writing was my way of seeing, my way of living, my way of feeling; and who could change his sight, his notion of direction, his senses? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra couldn’t help it: she laughed out loud at the notion of these tiny people making her do anything. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z It is in the abrupt, unaccountable aggregation of random notions, intuitions, known in science as good ideas, that the high points are made. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In part, the bonding occurred because the correspondence of their twilight years permitted both sages to confront and argue out their different notions of the history they had lived and made together. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z This wave-particle dualism may not correspond readily to our common-sense notions, but it is in excellent accord with what experiments have shown light really does. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But he doesn’t feel the need to hide anything: sexual possessiveness is bourgeois, and just a hangover from notions about the sanctity of private property. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The Koreans stood there, uneasy, trying to explain difficult notions in a broken English. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked at all the tourists, who'd no notion it existed, who thought they were seeing all of Cleveland, and restrained myself from pointing and shouting out, "The Gibb Street garden is there!" Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I often wondered what they were trying to get out of life, but I never stumbled upon a clue, and I doubt if they themselves had any notion. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The rather chimerical notion of a nuclear bomb without radioactive side effects had emerged in late 1954 and had been embraced by Livermore, where it fit nicely with the lab’s brief to explore new ideas. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He says, Hit me now with the child in me arms.Then he has a great notion,Why can’t we go to our own house and play a while? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Turner had no notion of what to say to an Old Testament prophet. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Frog had no notion whether any of that was true. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z So when Phoebe suggested that my father and I should not go to Margaret’s, I was quite willing to agree with that notion. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z “By invoking the ‘treasure trove’ notion of common law,” said Jake. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z "You reward yourself handsomely for a notion and a few lines of scribbling." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Dürer’s map illustrates how rapidly the notion of the Earth as a globe established itself after the publication of Waldseemuller’s map in 1507; it also demonstrates Dürer’s complete mastery of perspective representation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Some nineteenth-century English scientists misused Darwin’s ideas to peddle the notion that the Irish and people of color descended from apes. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z This notion came to Prendergast initially as a glimmer, like the first sunlight to strike the Masonic tower each morning, but now he thought of it a thousand times a day. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z To all intents and purposes, the notion that the earth/water assemblage was to be thought of as a single globe or sphere disappeared around 1400. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The notion of a personal astrology developed in Alexandrian Egypt and spread through the Greek and Roman worlds about 2,000 years ago. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z "Women get these notions in their heads----" "Shall we take anything to drink?" called Daisy from an upper window. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z This is an exceptionally silly notion—especially since the speed of impulses through the neurons in our brains is about the same as the speed of a donkey cart. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Several days later, on the bus to Oxford, the notion came to me that each TMV particle should be thought of as a tiny crystal growing like other crystals through the possession of cozy corners. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “That notion of burning us isn’t a very new idea, Basta, but then you never were fond of new ideas. Well, are we in business or aren’t we?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z "So this Lord Slynt, he was part of it, was he? Tell me, whose fine notion was it to grant him Harrenhal and name him to the council?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It was silly and morbid to entertain such ridiculous notions. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The very notion of “clean” thermonuclear weapons was mercilessly demolished in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists by Ralph Lapp, a distinguished antinuclear physicist. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It tells us that our notion that it is the best and the brightest who effortlessly rise to the top is much too simplistic. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Americans have never been comfortable with the notion of a pecking order based on anything other than talent and hard work. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z When we have learned how these are rearranged against randomness, to make, say, springtails, quantum mechanics, and the late quartets, we may have a clearer notion how to proceed. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of them had a notion, these statesmen and officials who greeted me effusively, but I had none. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to, but then I thought she might get a notion to spit in my food. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z We have, in our minds, a very specific, biological notion of what contagiousness means. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I often sit on the seventh step listening and they have no notion I’m there. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Although our apparently commonsense notions work well when dealing with things like apples, or planets that travel comparatively slowly, they don’t work at all for things moving at or near the speed of light. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Geeks were, in fact, redefining conventional notions of commerce and ownership. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And yet the notion of Olympic gold had begun to work its way into his psyche. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Even the notion of the Big Bang is quite a recent one. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Then when it became apparent Ob and I were probably going to rely on peanut butter to pull us through, he finally got the notion to go on home. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z American territorial expansion in the nineteenth century had repeatedly been justified by a firm belief in ‘Manifest Destiny’ - the notion that white Americans had a God-given right, or even duty, to colonise the whole continent. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Poor folks might take a notion to collect. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Their notion was that to exercise this respon-sibility, voters must be “educated.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, as he pondered Fred’s letter, the notion began to work on him. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He gnawed the reindeer haunch, and a wild notion flew into Lyra’s mind as she remembered all those witches in the night sky; but she said nothing about that. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z It dawns on me that he hasn’t got the foggiest notion of what he just said. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Since there are so many of them, they can make collective guesses at almost anything antigenic on the surface of the earth, but they must do their work one notion at a time. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was just the sort of notion that would appeal to Renly Baratheon; a splendid new order of knighthood, with gorgeous new raiment to proclaim it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z "The grieving widow in the Eyrie seems to think it was me. Where did she come by that notion, I wonder?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Whatever gave you the notion that I had any intention of not remaining an Orthodox Jew?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “I will do all I can to prevent that, my friend. I have a ... notion. But pray excuse me. It is past time the Domishmen heard that their prince is dead.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Yes,” said Sister McCandless, gravely, “it’s more than a notion. The Devil rises on every hand.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Indeed, the notion of racial difference—specifically the notion of white supremacy—proved far more durable than the institution that gave birth to it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z When he got over a drinking time, he’d take a notion that he had to be a better father to his children. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He had the notion that everyday substances like air, or water, or mercury were mingled with a much finer substance, a fluid which filled all the gaps and prevented the existence of a vacuum. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The notion that the cascading events in France bore any relation to the American Revolution struck Adams as outright lunacy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The intern did not have the least notion, but he had to say something. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Expanded in a series of bestselling books, this notion turned the lines into a major tourist attraction. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In the twentieth century, genetics brought the Ancient Greek notion of fate into our very cells. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I had the notion that such a manner of rendering made for a sharper effect, a more pointed sense of the character, his peculiar type of being and consciousness. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Doesn’t he have a great notion of himself. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z There are two immense words from Indo-European, gene and bbeu, each a virtual anthill in itself, from which we have constructed the notion of Everything. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We smiled at the notion of Yutar poring over the hundred or so volumes of Treason Trial transcripts. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Booth seethes at the outrageous notion that slaves be considered equal citizens of the United States. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z "Not until I have a better notion of what this is all about and where he stands." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Palmer had notions of drifting away, but Beans and Mutto were herding him their way. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z I don’t suppose you have much notion where we are; but I spent my time at Rivendell rather better. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He had a notion that the prince felt secretly disappointed not to be recognized by any of his subjects. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z My later notions of leadership were profoundly influenced by observing the regent and his court. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This idea—that effort must be balanced by rest— could not be more different from Asian notions about study and work, of course. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “Very odd! but one never does form a just idea of any body beforehand. One takes up a notion, and runs away with it. Mr. Dixon, you say, is not, strictly speaking, handsome?” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z |
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