Sentences with phrase «of truism in»

«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.

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.

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We have never understood the truism that most first - generation wealth is created on the strength of one idea or company, and then concludes with the dubious assumption that in order to preserve it, it must be spread among a thousand other companies» Frank Martin

It's a truism that there is no such thing as a free lunch, and this old adage applies in spades to the phenomenon of pirate websites that allow users to access «free» content.

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.

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.

Those of us who embrace a universalism (in some fashion) as a truism really don't give a fuck that YOU have declared that we are wrong.

There is something rather obvious — even a truism here — that stands in stark contrast to much of the history of evangelical scholarship.

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.

In order to interpret this core - principle of revelation, we must understand its essential presupposition; namely, that events are present «in» other events - present not just abstractly (through «eternal objects»), i.e., mediated by the «general,» but as singular events that effect their further history by their unique concreteness (PR 338).12 Whitehead recognizes precisely this constellation when he says:» [T] he truism that we can only conceive in terms of universals has been stretched to mean that we can only feel in terms of universalIn order to interpret this core - principle of revelation, we must understand its essential presupposition; namely, that events are present «in» other events - present not just abstractly (through «eternal objects»), i.e., mediated by the «general,» but as singular events that effect their further history by their unique concreteness (PR 338).12 Whitehead recognizes precisely this constellation when he says:» [T] he truism that we can only conceive in terms of universals has been stretched to mean that we can only feel in terms of universalin» other events - present not just abstractly (through «eternal objects»), i.e., mediated by the «general,» but as singular events that effect their further history by their unique concreteness (PR 338).12 Whitehead recognizes precisely this constellation when he says:» [T] he truism that we can only conceive in terms of universals has been stretched to mean that we can only feel in terms of universalin terms of universals has been stretched to mean that we can only feel in terms of universalin terms of universals.

This production does not shed any new light on the play's themes, but wisely focuses on Shakespeare's wit and warmth, allowing the audience to delight in the escapades and truisms of some of the canon's most beloved characters and draw their own conclusions.

Quoting Whitehead, he indicates what he thinks might be the reason for this lack of understanding: «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.»

Prophets Of The Culture Of Death It is a truism to say that cultural trends which begin in America will, in due course, reach Britain.

Now, in many areas of the academy the above is sufficiently obvious to be regarded as a truism, something that hardly needs saying.

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.

A longstanding truism in political science is that apathy and a lack of interest are the dominant features of public opinion.

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.

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Since it is virtually a truism that no organism could create the world anew at every instant, it is hardly surprising that habits or customs or instincts predominate in the production of experience.

Hence, when it comes to examining the actual texture of past occurrences, the historical cliches of Hegel have resulted only in the theological truisms of Pannenberg.

In the Minjung theology it is a truism that the question of power can not be separated from the life of the Minjung in historIn the Minjung theology it is a truism that the question of power can not be separated from the life of the Minjung in historin history.

But the possible thus understood is in no degree virtual, something ideally pre-existent... [It is] a truism to say that the possibility of a thing precedes its reality: by that you [mean] simply that obstacles, having been surmounted, were surmountable» (CM 99f.

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.

Here we find one of the strangest truisms of the MLB draft: When you're drafted as an outfielder, you stay in the outfield.

I only pray that some of you who would otherwise have considered betraying your future sons have been able to see through my rage to the basic humane truism that no person should ever be subjected to such an ordeal for such transparently hollow reasons as are advanced in defense of this practice.

Such a huge loss by the Republican presidential nominee would pit two oft - voiced truisms against one another: that the House majority is securely in GOP hands because of the tilted redistricting process in 2011, and that the era of voters splitting presidential tickets is over.

As for the LibDems, it's a truism of coalition politics that the junior partner frequently suffers in the polls.

«It is now an undisputable truism that Umuahia south is now the base of concentration because of the blunt refusal of the APGA leader in Umuahia south to join the ruling party in the state after all undue persuasions from many angles.

This section is usually followed by a moral truism, standing in place of a final flourish.

Although It is a truism that it is the strong and solid visionary thinking of individuals that result in the building of strong institutions, It is also a truism that visionary Leaders are only remembered for building strong institutions and NEVER outlive nor outlast whichever / whatever «Strong Institutions» that they helped build.

Some truisms turned out to be false in 2015 — notably, Brontosaurus exists only in pop culture, the speed of light is always constant and fish are cold - blooded.

''... Younger Next Week has a secret weapon: author Elisa Zied... It's impressive that she can make truisms that we all know, yet seldom act upon, sound both accessible and fun... The ideas laid out in Younger Next Week take just seven days to implement, but they're the kind of changes you will likely want to stick with for the long haul.»

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.

The truism «age is just a number» holds true in the digital age as an increasing number of seniors find love by joining online senior dating services.

Druggie underworld informant Huggy Bear (a permanently typecast Snoop Dogg) makes a couple of unfunny appearances that serve mainly to mock the rapper's marijuana - smoking, convicted - murdering persona, and the truism that the best parts are in the trailers proves astonishingly prescient.

There's an old truism among Oscar observers that, in any given year, one can look at one of the winners of the Screenplay awards and spot the true best picture of the year, regardless of what the voters actually elected to the top spot.

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.

At its core, this mutually - assured destruction is a truism, but the film's approach to it finds a strange poetry in its simplicity, commenting only in the broader strokes but giving its audience a god's - eye view of how the cycle plays out and, in doing so, maximizing the emotional impact of its narrative.

He sees political correctness as an insidious product of the kind of paternalistic racism that discards truth in favour of generally held truisms, a crutch for well - meaning racists who lack the wit to grasp that the basic misunderstanding of difference driving a desire to discriminate against minorities is identical to that which drives a desire to protect minorities.

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.

«The Spectacular Now» swaps storytelling truisms for the natural beat of life and thanks to outstanding performances from Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley, that results in an exceptionally raw and poignant experience.

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.

When a frustrated Michael, his calm, collected façade all but shattered by an afternoon spent with his mercurial father, asks (to no one in particular) why he can't hold it together and reverts back to a long - dormant, destructive pattern of father - son interaction, he's both uttering a truism - bordering - on - cliché, but also speaking for every member of the audience with a parent, a child, or a sibling (i.e., everyone).

The third way this is funny is harsher, in that it begins to touch on the truism that there are certain traits you're born with, and while that's a no - brainer when it comes to the rest of the animal kingdom, it's a tough thing for most proud Judeo - Christians to accept.

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

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.»

''... 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.»

BESIDES SHOWERING RICHES ON THE AVERAGE man in the Street and fueling perhaps the most satisfying economic expansion in history - a boom without tears - this greatest of all bull markets has completely reformulated truisms that investors have lived - and sometimes died - by, ever since the Buttonwood Tree was a spindly sapling.

Education on the benefits of any product creates value in the consumer's mind, and renters insurance is no exception to that truism.