The popular conception of the Bauhaus as the source of extensive Weimar-era working housing is not accurate.

Contrary to popular conception, there is no evidence of a society or economy that relied primarily on barter.

To fill in the blanks, the popular conception of the secret agent has been formed largely by 20th and 21st century literature and cinema.

By elevating the director, and not the screenwriter, to the same importance as novelists, composers, or painters, it sought to free the cinema from its popular conception as a bastard art, somewhere between theater and literature.

The later period Zulu soldier went into battle relatively simply dressed, painting his upper body and face with chalk and red ochre, despite the popular conception of elaborately panoplied warriors.

Vladimir Lenin accepted the Marxist conception of the law and the state as instruments of coercion in the hands of the bourgeoisie and postulated the creation of popular, informal tribunals to administer revolutionary justice.

In contrast to the popular conception of Chinese as a primarily pictographic or ideographic language, the vast majority of Chinese characters ( about 95 percent of the characters in the Shuowen Jiezi ) are constructed as either logical aggregates or, more often, phonetic complexes.

It is a popular conception that those who are highly artistic-painters, sculptors, musicians, writers, etc.

Contrary to popular conception, there is no evidence that societies relied primarily on barter before using money for trade.

The game in its modern conception became popular in the 1990s when commercial kubb sets were first manufactured.

According to popular conception, pirates often buried their stolen fortunes in remote places, intending to return for them later ( often with the use of treasure maps ).

Although the popular conception of Peyronie's Disease is that it always involves curvature of the penis, the scar tissue sometimes causes divots or indentations rather than curvature.

It was, in later days, much disliked by the public and contributed to the popular conception that Birmingham was a concrete jungle of shopping centres and motorways.

The popular conception of the landscape that is reflected in dictionaries conveys a particular and a general meaning ; the particular referring to an area of the Earth's surface and the general meaning being that which can be seen by an observer.

On the occasion of its dedication on May 10, 1930, Max Adler stated The popular conception of the universe is too meager ; the planets and the stars are too far removed from general knowledge.

Before this, the popular conception of dinosaurs had been one of plodding, reptilian giants.

The discovery of this clearly active, agile predator did much to change the scientific ( and popular ) conception of dinosaurs and opened the door to speculation that dinosaurs may have been warm-blooded.

This Marxist usage contrasts with a popular conception of ' imperialism ', as directly controlled vast colonial or neocolonial empires.

Her most influential work was the book The Everglades: River of Grass ( 1947 ), which redefined the popular conception of the Everglades as a treasured river instead of a worthless swamp ; its impact has been compared to that of Rachel Carson's influential book Silent Spring ( 1962 ).

David McCally wrote that despite Douglas ' " appreciation of the complexity of the environmental system " she described, popular conception of the Everglades shared by people who have not read the book overshadows her detailed explanations.

Plekhanov's book became a very popular defense of the materialistic conception of history.

The reasonable person standard is by no means democratic in its scope ; it is, contrary to popular conception, intentionally distinct from that of the " average person ," who is not necessarily guaranteed to always be reasonable.

The setting fit the popular conception of the American West with boulders larger than houses strewn against a backdrop of rugged mountains.

It is a popular conception by the public that his tuberculosis was first discovered when he fainted during the Ikedaya Affair, mostly due to the depiction appearing in a famous work chronicling the Shinsengumi as well as a number of period dramas based upon it.

On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.

Then suddenly there was a tremendous revulsion of popular feeling.

Now, although the roots of the mystery story in serious literature go back as far as Balzac, Dickens, and Poe, it was not until the closing decades of the 19th century that the private detective became an established figure in popular fiction.

The double editorial on Two Aspects Of `` The U.S. Spirit '' was subtly calculated to suggest a moral sanction for gambles great as well as small, reflecting popular approval of this questionable attitude toward the highest office in the land.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

A popular belief grew up after the war that the only time during the Civil War that Thomas ever put his horse to a gallop was when he went to hurry up Stanley for this assault.

He was especially popular with women, for, like the romantic poetry he wrote, he was personally gracious, gallant, and chivalrous.

Since Rhode Island at that time did not have such sanction, his opinion was not popular.

Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

In the middle of the century, with a circulation of 90,000, the Post was one of the most popular weeklies in the country.

he knows that he was never more popular than at the time of the Russo-American `` honeymoon '' of 1959.

For decades it was the most popular dish served in the Ladies' Grill at breakfast, and it is one of the few old Palace dishes that still survive.

He was criticized for his curtness and abruptness -- and he answered: `` I am not working to become popular ''.

When the power of the latter was made both limited and explicit -- when norms were clarified and made more precise and the creation of new norms was placed exclusively in parliamentary hands -- two purposes were served: Government was made subservient to an institutionalized popular will, and law became a rational system for implementing that will, for serving conscious goals, for embodying the `` public policy ''.

It was merely a rationalization and ordering of new institutions of popular government.

For an instant his men hesitated, unable to believe that their lieutenant, the most popular officer in the regiment, was dead.

not long ago `` Denver Mud '' was most popular.

Uncle John Vinnicum Morse was the immediate popular suspect.

From the seventeenth to the nineteenth century it was a popular practice to flood the piazza in the summer, and the aristocrats would then ride around the inundated square in their carriages.

I was curious about the impact of this political assassination on Negroes in Harlem, for Lumumba had -- has -- captured the popular imagination there.

Not only in popular thought but in that of the highly educated as well was this true.

Although the particular form of conceptualization which popular imagination had made in response to the experience of spirit was undoubtedly defective, the raw experience itself which led to such excesses remains with us as vividly as ever.