It is sometimes necessary to restate even the most
obvious of truisms, if only to prevent them from being overlooked amid the sound and fury of passing political debate.
Not exact matches
There is something rather
obvious — even a
truism here — that stands in stark contrast to much
of the history
of evangelical scholarship.
Now, in many areas
of the academy the above is sufficiently
obvious to be regarded as a
truism, something that hardly needs saying.
It is an
obvious truism that ideals flourish best when they can be connected with the mutual self - interests
of interacting parties.
The smoldering wreckage
of the contract seems like a
truism at this point, something that was both
obvious and unavoidable, but there was once a time when smart baseball people had smart baseball debates about Hamilton's future value.
The troubling thing about the picture beyond its
obvious troubling things is that with the impending demise
of the Miss America pageant (and with The Donald threatening to acquire it), there is the
truism that people share the film's belief that pageants are horse - and - pony shows masquerading as scholarship opportunities and don't care about them unless — and here's the rub — you get the reality show behind - the - scenes
of the beauties doing their best to scratch each other's eyes out.
Doeringer is putting conceptual art
truisms to the test: The most
obvious is the age - old conceptual saw that the idea or gesture, and not the object itself, is the art (tell that to the auction houses that do well selling Ruscha bookworks or Ray photographs for hundreds
of thousands
of dollars.)
This is a
truism — something that is overwhelmingly
obvious after the announcement
of the fact.
The definition
of truism is «an undoubted or self - evident truth; especially: one too
obvious for mention.»
With the scene now set, let's turn to getting some
obvious but important
truisms out
of the way.