preconceived notion

How To Use preconceived notion In A Sentence

• You must judge each film on its own merits, without any preconceived notions about what it's like.
• He had a preconceived notion of what a messiah should be like. Christianity Today
• They have the effect of jarring your preconceived notions. Times, Sunday Times
• Preconceived notions are prejudices about what is supposed to happen during the ritual, or the way in which the ritual must be done.
• And still she would not be ill to fall in with Louis's preconceived notions; living an absolutely normal, rather tough life, hardened by her father's Spartanism, she found that a natural process made very little difference to her. Captivity
• So I went to college, with that kind of preconceived notion which didn't materialize. Oral History Interview with Eva Clayton, July 18, 1989. Interview C-0084. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
• I didn't have any kind of preconceived notions about how these things were supposed to be done. Undefined
• `The most surprising thing about the group is that many of my preconceived notions about the participants have been overturned. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
• The work of Crowell, Dott and Winterer led to the introduction of purely descriptive terms for poorly sorted and laminated facies that avoided any preconceived notion of a glacial origin.
• We must be prepared for all possibilities, not just the ones that play into reporters' preconceived notions about hunters, soldiers, tattoos and guns.