Genius, after all, is supposed to be a discredited Romantic notion, though don't tell that to those who recently thronged the Museum of Modern Art to see the Jackson Pollock show.

Philosophers of the enlightenment sought to cast aside the discredited notions of hierarchy and theology as justifications for morality.

Driven by his re-election strategy, the President has revived the discredited notion that dissent equals disloyalty, using as his foil expatriates of the Vietnam War era.

So the Martian biosphere would not be a case of phylogeny recapitulating ontogeny, a discredited notion in any case, but of history recapitulating evolution.

A major national figure can hardly maintain mainstream credibility when he is associated with such discredited notions.

The Consumer Federation of America characterized an earlier version of the legislation as "the dangerous and discredited notion that the way to create jobs is to weaken regulatory protections".

He revives the discredited notion that Carroll Rosenbloom, the ornery owner of the Rams, who had a penchant for gambling, met foul play when he drowned in Florida 10 years ago.

Rapid stylistic turnover has replaced artistic progress, now a discredited notion, and if anything is likely to startle, it is probably something that makes no claim whatsoever to novelty.

It cannot be sold on synergy - the largely discredited notion that mergers open fresh streams of revenue by combining previously unrelated businesses.

On another, more philosophical level, critics said that endorsing a drug for one race gave official government imprimatur to the discredited notion of race as a biological category.