Fanciful feelings

Usage examples of notions.

It is rather our conclusion after an analysis of the structures of self, morality, notions of causality, types of cognition, and so on, that emerge at various stages of development.

Nagarjuna to be marks of the unreal: they are dualistic notions dependent upon their opposites, and thus are nothing in themselves.

All romantic notions Avelyn had held concerning sea voyages were long gone, washed away by the slow, creaking, rolling reality.

I could take solace in the twin notions that I had simply acted in accordance with the whims of the divine and fate, and that I might actually be making the world a better place while doing it.

Oblivious to my mood and the fearsome notions that wrestled for control of my mind, oblivious to the fact that I had sneaked down to the dungeon just the previous night.

I would be more than happy to disabuse them of any notions that their faith afforded them safekeeping in any way.

I suspect there is--and we can just put aside these foolish notions of you killing me, okay, Denyys?

He had kindled her fancy with those notions of a Sabbatical year and a Silver Wedding Journey, and when she was willing to renounce both he had persisted in taking her to see the ship, only to tell her afterwards that he would not go abroad on any account.

Even in the serious and perplexing situation in which he found himself he could not help being amused with her unliterary notions of literature, her conventional and commonplace conceptions of it.

What bizarre notions would run through his mind as he confronted his own mortality without having achieved any of his grandiose visions?

The old institutions and most of the officials would probably be tainted by the regime, and relying on them would inevitably mean a creeping return to old, corrupt practices and inefficient notions of administration.

Because of our well-demonstrated fallibilities, it rules out of court, beyond serious discourse, a wide range of uplifting images, playful notions, earnest mysticism and stupefying wonders.

However, in the course of looking deeply within ourselves, we may challenge notions that give comfort before the terrors of the world.

Except for the first week of introductory philosophy courses, though, the names and notions of the early lonians are almost never mentioned in our society.

Because our notions, both hereditary and learned, of how Nature works were forged in the millions of years our ancestors were hunters and gatherers.