Sentences with phrase «of the truisms about»

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.

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.

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

I resisted reading it for a long time because I figured it would be full of self - affirmational claptrap, and there is some of that, but it's mainly about a simple financial truism: no matter how much money you make, the only way to get rich is to spend much less than you earn.

Jacoby's occasion for recycling this tired truism is David Gelernter's new book, America - Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered in the Obamacrats), which he thinks is short on arguments and full of shrill right - wing clichés about tenured radicals and rootless intellectuals.

He intelligently applies such truisms to various marketing and public policy issues, but they are in service to his larger point: forget the formation of character and persuading people about whether something is true» the way to get things done is to condition behavior.

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.

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.

Much has rightly been made over the years about how the franchise became a platform for some of the best British actors working, a truism that brought it force and gravity as one after another great — Michael Gambon, Gary Oldman, Emma Thompson, Jim Broadbent, Maggie Smith, David Thewlis, Jason Isaacs — stepped up, often wonderfully.

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.

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.»

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

Some other truisms about «The Pride of Taern»: While the game certainly does not get any award for graphics, some problems could have been solved, if «Whitemoon» wouldn't be an anti-social moron about it all.

After viewing Hershman Leeson's retrospective, we can not repeat the same truisms about the construction of identity and the constant citation of the image.

It's a truism that whenever I write about the solid fact that the Earth is warming up, that post will get comments that make it clear that denialists — and please read that link before commenting on my use of the word — are like religious zealots, writing the same tired long - debunked arguments that are usually debunked in the very post they're commenting on.

Then there's this juicy bit of «communication»: ``... it suffices to say that the climate scientists have little doubt about the human impact on the climate...» Of course, like so much science non-communication, this is followed up by some vague qualifying about extent etc so you don't really know if the first bit is a sly consensus message or just a truisof «communication»: ``... it suffices to say that the climate scientists have little doubt about the human impact on the climate...» Of course, like so much science non-communication, this is followed up by some vague qualifying about extent etc so you don't really know if the first bit is a sly consensus message or just a truisOf course, like so much science non-communication, this is followed up by some vague qualifying about extent etc so you don't really know if the first bit is a sly consensus message or just a truism.

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....

Ethereum News Update «A person is smart; people are dumb,» is one of my favorite truisms about investing.

But one lesson I have learned about marriage is the truism that in order to love our spouse well, we must also be on a journey of loving ourselves.