Sentences with phrase «of a truism»

It speaks of the truisms of life and does so in a subtle way, which is the key to its success.

«It takes two or three years to do a real serious exhibition,» he noted — and although he ventured no comparisons between himself and his predecessor, Jeffrey Deitch, the comment, a kind of truism in the art museum world, seemed telling.

It is something of a truism that Western civilization has long been preoccupied with power, greatness and national prestige.

In the days before I took the glorious and terrible plunge into motherhood, I heard all kinds of truisms about parenting, and many of them I believed.

Asked by sports blogger Dave Portnoy in his inaugural video as a bitcoin investor, the comment cuts to the core of a truism about the network: while it's been billed as a «digital currency,» it's actually not all that useful for payments today.

During the reception, eight performers, dressed in white, enacted a series of two - person conversations based on Stefan Sagmeister's use of truisms.

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.

I think of this truism every time a booming, huffing car rolls down the street, windows open and the bass blasting an ominous beat.

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.

The force of this truism in Barth's thinking moved him to liberate theology from its dependence on philosophy and its vulnerability to demythologizing criticism.

«Roses are red and violets are blue» has been more of a truism than botanists like to admit.

The M25 could scarcely be a better example of the truism that roads generate traffic.

However, meaningful filmmaking does not merely remind the viewer of truisms or elementary biological facts.

Davis» Tully is a catalog of truisms, such as «You can't be a good mother if you don't practice self - care.»

Stuffy British fish expert Ewan McGregor has some really funny deadpan moments and his inner office battles with his boss wreak of truism.

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.

''... the laborious attempts to facilitate reflective practices for teachers fly in the face of the truism expressed in the epigraph of this article, namely, that there is no such thing as an unreflective teacher.»

Awareness of this truism has sown the seeds of somewhat of an obsession in the industry about fees.

Such concise allegations elicit public discussion, directly engaging viewers in a larger discourse on society that often broaches polemical issues.The medium of modern computer systems became an important component in Holzer's work in 1982 when nine of her Truisms flashed at forty - second intervals on the giant spectacolor electronic signboard in Times Square.

Jenny Holzer is an American conceptual and installation artist who became widely known because of her Truisms series of short aphorisms.

The Transition movement and its underlying big sister Permaculture (a design system based on a set of truisms derived by observing the natural world), is a sometimes - stern, sometimes - playful, highly flexible and creative reminder of the way things work on this planet.

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....

One of the truisms of religious weight - loss books, consonant with the wider American diet industry, is that so - called «head hunger» (the desire to consume when there is no physiological urge for food) is in fact hunger of an expressly spiritual kind.

This is something of a truism.

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.

One of the truisms about mortgage fraud is that if the seller's concession is shown on the HUD - 1 settlement statement, there's no fraud.

It's one of the truisms of the profession; it can also pin you into a corner, and some guys fight like hell out of that corner.

It's something of a truism — and an overstatement — that every generation gets the Lincoln it needs, but there's no escaping that Spielberg's Lincoln seems ideally suited to help contemporary audiences put their present political culture in context.

I've been facilitating a Project Management course today, and it reminded me of the truism of any project — nothing ever goes to plan!

But one of the truisms of the internet is that businesses can no longer control how consumers perceive them.

One part of the post reminded me of a truism for corporate litigators: There are virtually no businesses that are engaged in the business of litigation.

One of the truisms I've learned in my work as a psychologist and couples counselor is that healthy marriages and relationships are created, not found.

One of the truisms I always remind myself of is the fact that, normally, events work out in some fashion.

One of the truisms of sales comes from Merle Ace: «Salespeople usually quit a long time before they leave the job.»