Learned by Reading
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
But postmodernism does add new concepts, albeit patently ridiculous ones, and it has had a comparable amount of success to Marxism in infiltrating its philosophical conclusions in a simplified form into the popular consciousness.
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In the British National Corpus:
And the gap which had to some extent been there from the beginning in popular consciousness between “Hitler’s war” for racial empire and territorial aggrandisement, and the patriotic defence of the “Fatherland” was widening.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
This is one of those internet fads that is driving itself into the popular consciousness of our society.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
His films have so comprehensively entered the popular consciousness that it is impossible to come to them fresh, perhaps even if we have never seen one before.
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
Snake Hill has had a modest, if largely anonymous, impact on the popular consciousness.
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In Wikipedia:
Ballard commented that Mae West, Mansfield and Monroe’s breasts “loomed across the horizon of popular consciousness.
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In Wikipedia:
Recent popularity of paeula as a low – maintenance pet in Hawaii and elsewhere has brought this otherwise obscure decapod crustacean into popular consciousness.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Now I see it as a kind of emblem of a more carefree time, before D & D was widely known and hit a series of bumps on the road to popular consciousness.
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
They literally spoke the language of the masses, effectively penetrating popular consciousness and shaping public opinion.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
It took ten years for that music to seep into the popular consciousness, like the Karl Hector record? which is largely the product of J. Whitefield and a couple of his friends? they’ve been listening to that stuff since way before Ethiopiques.
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
In 1989 The Allman Brothers reunited and returned to popular consciousness of the American public, spurred by Gregg’s recent FM radio success, the release of archival material by PolyGram, and the start of regular appearances on the American summer outdoor amphitheatre circuit.
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
He has published more than a dozen articles in law journals such as the Harvard Law Review and Texas Law Review, focusing on the role of law in shaping popular consciousness and on how law can best be used to bring about progressive social change.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Domestos, kills all known germs – dead!? has wormed its way into the popular consciousness.
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In Wikipedia:
This despite the fact that Linc bears virtually no similarity to the image of the muscle – bound renegade superman imbedded into the popular consciousness by Sylvester Stallones film portrayal of Morrells creation.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Modernists can think what they like of this deep – seated system of beliefs, they can call it the makings of a modern mythology founded on historical truths; no matter, it is the stuff of popular consciousness in this the land of Sinhala – Buddhism.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
The fifty – one gold medals China’s sportsmen and sportswomen achieved was an amazing achievement; the impact of the games on China’s popular consciousness is less measurable though perhaps even more significant (see “China changes itself: an Olympics report’ ’, 20 August 2008).
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(. .)))
In the British National Corpus:
This, together with many variants and extensions to its basic pattern, is now at least as ingrained in the popular musical consciousness as the thirty-two-bar ballad form was between 1920 and 1950.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
It’s become so blatant that it’s now a staple of Jay Leno’s monologues, which shows how much it’s penetrated the popular consciousness.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
And so in the absence of such intervention, it would require not just serendipituous luck, but a simultaneous shift in popular consciousness throughout all nations, and that isn’t possible within a market economy where the majority of people perform rote tasks 40 hours a week in order to keep their family alive.
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(. .)))
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