Sentences with phrase «more of a truism»

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There are, of course, limits to this truism, otherwise there'd be even more celebrity gossip «stories» out there than there already are, but for the most part news outlets like to give people what they want.

Many oft repeated truisms are more about wish fulfillment than reality (sorry peddlers of endless, uncritical «follow your passion!»

Perhaps one can find the occasional bleached fragment of a truism floating in the sewage of her malevolent system» say, an abhorrence of deadening collectivism» but nothing more interesting than that.

Owing to the disastrous confusion, more especially by Hume, of conceptual feelings with perceptual feelings, the truism that we can only conceive in terms of universals has been stretched to mean that we can only feel in terms of universals.

Their well - intended programs to alleviate juvenile delinquency or ease the burdens of the aged overlook basic truisms: that the human impulse is to achieve; that children, like septuagenarians, respond to need more quickly than to praise; and that do - gooders all too often are egotists seeking applause rather than results.

Perhaps finding one's identity in God's love rather than in attainment of some extrinsic standard of perfection is more than the living out of a truism — perhaps, in this climate of intensive mothering, it's more like a survival skill.

This is such a truism that one is almost ashamed to pen the words, and yet it remains a fact that, in a great deal of the more conservative biblical scholarship, it does seem to be assumed that the appeal to factual accuracy would he as valid and important a factor in the case of ancient Near Eastern religious texts as it would be in a modern western court of law or in a somewhat literally - minded western congregation.

I think the CSWBG movement might have evolved through a scenario rather like this: probably under the mistaken truism that more expensive is automatically better in all things, somebody started buying high - grade steak and carefully hand - slicing it into tiny, uniform, fat - free cubes, then sauteeing them into a rich gravy without too much of those old Mexican spices that have given chili such a good (or bad) name over the years.

The dinner was free to all; and more than twenty thousand greasy fingers testified their owners» appreciation of the eatables, and gave at least one - third of the guests a reasonable excuse to get off that venerable truism about fingers being made before forks.

2) Every one of the strikers you mention above had an immense defensive line - up behind them — the often spouted truism that defence wins titles holds more weight imo than a WC striker.

It is a truism that journalists like binary stories with winners and losers, and success or failure — nuance will be more of a challenge.

While it is a truism that an economy and a government can not sustainably spend more than it earns indefinitely, the idea that governments must maintain annually balanced budgets has generally been long consigned to the dustbin of economic history.

As a result, he continues to lend truism to the biblical injunction that (Proverbs 17:10) «A rebuke is more effective with a man of understanding than a hundred lashes to a fool»

It's a truism in hormone balance that more is not better, and excessive doses of any medicine that affects hormones will often cause more problems than it solves.

And since it is kind of a truism that «there is nothing new under the sun,» with that many people writing stuff and fewer and fewer people just looking for something new to read, that many bloggers are investing a ton of time and energy into writing blog posts, and then fly around to the various blog hops or linky parties and drop links hoping that more people will find us and read our blog posts.

It's an oft - repeated truism that sound is 50 percent (or more) of the moviegoing experience (the sentiment is typically credited to George Lucas, but it's been cosigned by others including David Lynch), and while I find the claim tendentious most of the time, I admit that something like San Andreas really makes the case.

One of the more consistently underlined truisms in Hitchcock / Truffaut, a work of cinephilic devotion that takes the titular 1966 book as its starting point, is the notion of the master of suspense as a director with full control over every effect in his films.

Gertrud renounces external eventfulness in order to cultivate internal or imaginative eventfulness» — and using the (constant - and - never - moving as a way to allow viewers to focus on acting and the body rather than on technical formalist tricks, in fact, the shots are the longest technically allowable before the invention of digital shooting) camera merely as a functional recording - device rather than as an originator of instant meaning and knowledge as in Hollywood, this film remains the best summation of the truism that a longwinded presentation of several actors merely speaking for ten - minutes - a-scene while the camera does not move and no artificial and manipulative «cinematic language» is involved, in other words, the dreaded «merely filmed non-cinematic literature and theatre,» not only has a much greater capacity to teach than any Hollywood mode of filmmaking but is more dramatic than any car chase.

But there's so much more wrong with Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius than just the music, the winking title, and the truism that for as boring as golf is to watch on television, it's that much more boring to watch in reverent celluloid slow motion — no, the picture is also fatally tagged by a terrible screenplay and terrible direction (that includes a half dozen ball's - eye view shots: not as interesting as you might misunderstand), as well as the dreadfully persistent belief that the measure of a man's life are the crescendos and valleys rather than the caesuras and grace notes.

«The Battle of Algiers» extrapolates on historic truisms regarding occupations from the perspective of the occupied freedom fighters, i.e. occupied people, always fight harder and better than their occupiers because they have more at stake.

Toppo briefly worries that the game might reduce the meaning of Walden to a few truisms, but a researcher assures him that if students «invest a little bit more in thinking about why Thoreau did what he did, why the game is the way that it is, if they allow the experience to affect them, they'll take away a lot more.»

Given that it's become a truism that teacher quality impacts student learning more than any other variable within the four walls of a school, the results of a new study of teachers» professional development programs are particularly troubling.

«If ever a group of paintings embodied the truism that seeing authentic artworks in the flesh is far more powerful than seeing them in reproductions, it's the Irregular Polygons of Frank Stella,» said the Cleveland Plain Dealer's Steven Litt.

This couldn't be more accurate of Holzer's truism «Abuse of Power Comes as No Surprise,» which has become endlessly sharable as a powerful slogan for the #metoo movement as of late.

With that in mind, here is a truism you ought to know: Most consumers can't readily distinguish between law firms and assume they're more or less the same; and now that smartphones enable consumers to review a larger array of options more quickly than ever before, you can't afford to be one of many and subsist on whichever clients just so happen to come across you.

US District Judge Richard Kopf (Neb):» [J] udges obviously know more about the individuals we sentence than many other people [but] the significance of this truism to the statutory goals of sentencing is often zilch... [T] he importance of «knowing the person» is overstated by those who want excuses to do something different than what the Guidelines dictate....

In the context of fundamental rights, it is a truism that the scrutiny is likely to be more intense than where other interests are involved.

One of our lawyers is fond of stating the truism that «charity starts at home,» meaning that if we aren't taking the right steps to stay financially afloat, then we will be... [more]

It's a truism that you get the behavior you reward, and we found that rewarding this tight focus on accomplishing specific levels of mastery, led to a more capable workforce.

This is a truism that will become even more evident in the age of the Internet.

The devotion to sparse decor and neutral color palettes — once iron - clad truisms of «proper» staging — is giving way to a livelier vision encompassing more trendy, inviting interiors and exteriors that are intended to make a listing more marketable.