That is as taken-for-granted by progs as it is scorned by trads.    From Wordnik.com.  [The parties of discontinuity and the vital center] Reference

In this novel, vampires are a rare but taken-for-granted reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [13 BULLETS by David Wellington (Three Rivers 2007)] Reference

The second does not come equipped with a taken-for-granted account.    From Wordnik.com.  [Institutions, functions, purposes] Reference

Still, “white” skin is still taken-for-granted in many products.    From Wordnik.com.  [WHITE PRIVILEGE » Sociological Images] Reference

Don't they see that the lone superpower as a taken-for-granted is a fiction?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Slow Death of Democracy and the Rise of the Corporate Hydra] Reference

Don\'t they see that the lone superpower as a taken-for-granted is a fiction? '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Slow Death of Democracy and the Rise of the Corporate Hydra] Reference

For Sargisson, utopianism challenges such taken-for-granted dualisms behind conventional thinking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Utopianism and Joanna Baillie: A Preface to Converging Revolutions] Reference

By taking away the “taken-for-granted,” illness invites, even forces, new awareness and new learning.    From Wordnik.com.  [After the Diagnosis] Reference

This element of taken-for-granted power is what distinguishes magical thought from mere wishful thinking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Magic and Mayhem] Reference

They are the often the taken-for-granted backbone of critical life-supporting products and services in communities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aaron Hurst: Can Pro Bono Resources Help Us Prepare for the Next Disaster?] Reference

But it was a stirring reminder of the taken-for-granted greatness that still lurks within the 29-year-old Mr. Federer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Superduperhuman Has His Doubters] Reference

Rhetoric inheres powerfully in setting, partly because it is so often perceived in a taken-for-granted way as a given.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference

After that I had to decide how to get to the lake, as the normal taken-for-granted act of driving now had complications.    From Wordnik.com.  [Come To Grief]

The standby, taken-for-granted carrot takes on a brilliant, unfamiliar guise when combined with a sharp scallion-ginger sauce.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Food Matters Cookbook] Reference

These topics are also features of cultural studies, whether as questions or as taken-for-granted methodological presuppositions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crossroads of Philosophy and Cultural Studies: Body, Context, Performativity, Community] Reference

Those who possess the needed, taken-for-granted knowledge can understand what they read, and those who lack that knowledge cannot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Preface] Reference

How odd it seemed that such a taken-for-granted thing, putting out the garbage, could suddenly be a source of the gravest anxiety.    From Wordnik.com.  [Underworld] Reference

Sleep, which passes quietly, is an instance of the taken-for-granted manner in which each culture inhabits and belongs to its world.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Insomnia: A Cultural History'] Reference

But for all the misery, our steady, often taken-for-granted Canadian friends don't appear to be as gloomy about it as Americans are.    From Wordnik.com.  [North of the border, a funemployed summer] Reference

The professional elite is singularly clueless about how food and other taken-for-granted aspects of their lifestyle serve as "class acts.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Joan Williams: Obama Eats Arugula] Reference

They are, in a word, cultural, and therefore taken-for-granted and not questioned, but this doesn't mean they aren't changing all the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Question 3: Virtual Property] Reference

We have learned that successful reading also requires a knowledge of shared, taken-for-granted information that is not set down on the page.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Theory Behind the Dictionary: Cultural Literacy and Education] Reference

And the challenge is finally to ask ourselves and our world, 'Does this taken-for-granted world have room for fragile bodies and unfathomable minds?.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Mission for L'Arche Today' - Address at L'Arche International Federation Meeting, Assisi, Italy] Reference

They had known each other for so long that she wasn't sure when the idea of marrying had turned from a vague possibility to a taken-for-granted fact.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Weeks To Remember]

Increasingly expressions of aversion towards Israel have assumed the status of a taken-for-granted sentiment in many sections of polite European society.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

It is interesting, however, upon occasion, to speculate upon the possible origins of just such familiar and taken-for-granted accommodations and adjustments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mercenaries Of Gor]

In this time of flux, uncertainty, mistrust and collapse, we may nevertheless be shaken enough to reconsider our taken-for-granted ways of thinking and being.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alvaro Fernandez: Distracted? Meet Maggie Jackson] Reference

Going further, an assessment of GHG emissions and reduction opportunities often reveals new insights into taken-for-granted or under-studied operational parameters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Business strategy and climate change] Reference

The new taken-for-granted info tech has realized the yearning in endless fairy tales, for example, for telepathy: if only I could whisper a word to the lost beloved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher Lydon: Daniel Kehlmann's Fame: The Self in the Cyber Century (AUDIO)] Reference

I need to know the writer’s taken-for-granted information—in this case, the widespread discussion in our culture about the pollution of rivers, atmosphere, and so on.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Theory Behind the Dictionary: Cultural Literacy and Education] Reference

In a moment they feel what it's like to have their relationship downgraded, and to have a much taken-for-granted right called into question because of another's beliefs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evan Derkacz: I Don't Recognize Your Union: A Marriage Manifesto] Reference

Because it's so much a part of their taken-for-granted folklore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blog entry] Reference

"Good hygiene practice is a fundamental and often taken-for-granted practice," he added.    From Wordnik.com.  [news.newamericamedia.org] Reference

Visual Voicemail is, perhaps, the most used and taken-for-granted feature of the iPhone.    From Wordnik.com.  [PDAStreet] Reference

The invisible, taken-for-granted 'I' is outside the picture looking in, and the world is what the 'I' observes.    From Wordnik.com.  [open Democracy News Analysis - Comments] Reference

What a foolish pain, like a spear-thrust, they sent through me -- those words spoken in such a taken-for-granted way!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood] Reference

The tyranny of an iron-grip of a taken-for-granted two-thirds majority in Parliament was broken at the last elections.    From Wordnik.com.  [SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator] Reference

But the debate had been; and it left Tatty, with her maxims and taken-for-granted practicalities, hard to endure at times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Good-for-Nothing] Reference