Usage of "tabula rasa"

Portuguese

An opportunity to start over without prejudice.

Usage of tabula rasa in English

Octavus's pale face was tabula rasa, a blank tablet with nothing writ. 
 Secret of the seventh son 

To restore tabula rasa, then, by a continual effort at self-effacement! 
 Imaginary Portraits 

To assume that the child is born a " tabula rasa" is superstition. 
 The Developmental Psychology of Psychopathology 

And which of us begins the search a tabula rasa? 
 The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 

The fact is that it's unlikely there'll be a tabula rasa after Fidel dies. 
 The new yorker 

Like most institutions erected on a tabula rasa, the new system is at once simple and symmetrical. 
 Russia 

Humans could start from scratch somewhere else, scribble something new and better on extraterrestrial tabula rasa soil. 
 Wired 

Caz walked Harry toward the water's edge and stood staring out at the tabula rasa before him. 
 The Scarlet Gospels 

The walls, too, were a tabula rasa. 
 Jitterbug Perfume 

And no one designing the European Union tabula rasa would have dreamt of coming up with the Amsterdam Treaty. 
 The Irish Times 

And it established a powerful identity that cannot, it turns out, so happily be abandoned for a tabula rasa. 
 The Guardian 

It is a tabula rasa, a separation of church and state, where all such points of view can be accommodated. 
 The Irish Times 

So, if you like to be a tabula rasa when you view a film or read a novel, stop here. 
 Wired 

Veritable art- ists, who like the painter, work from tabula rasa, a clean slate, and have a picture in mind. 
 Terminal Compromise 

And I love the tabula rasa of the empty page, trying to work out how this thing is going to be staged. 
 The Guardian 

The craft of redpointing can border on mystical, especially with a first ascent, a tabula rasa that no one has climbed before. 
 Climbing Magazine 

Translations for tabula rasa

Portuguese

Meanings of tabula rasa in English