Sentences with phrase «old dictum»

In (some) architecture (say, Mies), the old dictum of «less is more» may have some truth, because architecture operates as a context for human habitation and culture, so the human activity can bring alive the minimal design.

The old dictum «you're only as good as your last picture» appears to apply far less universally than one might think.

In this field William Graham Sumner's old dictum that «stateways can not change folkways» remained the basic preconception.

Therefore, the individual becoming of man and the evolutionary becoming of mankind are mutually illuminating — an insight embodied in the old dictum that «ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.»

In this sense, the old dictum «Outside the church there is no salvation» takes on new meaning for Volf.

We ought, Singer writes, to replace the old dictum that all human life has equal worth with a First New Commandment: Recognize that the worth of human life varies.

That old dictum seems relevant at a moment when the markets are a paradox: Each new high only makes many veteran investors more nervous that...

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One question was seldom in the foreground: What had become of the old counsellors» dictum that «about half the practice of a decent lawyer consists in telling would - be clients that they are damned fools and should stop»?

This was probably a dictum of the community, for it does not occur in the Old Testament in so many words.

They have oscillated in practice between radical centralization and tolerance of relative decentralization (in the form of producer Soviets and compulsory co-operatives when these served a political purpose), but they have never put the social principle above the political nor attempted to realize Marx's dictum that the new society will be gestated in the womb of the old.

The Rees - Mogg filibuster is a colorful cultural event that often includes the recitation of poetry, English folk tales, English history, axioms of old English Common Law, and various Latin dicta.

Two films — Pater, by the 79 - year - old French renaissance man Alain Cavalier, and This Is Not a Film, by banned Iranian director Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb — seemed born from the immortal dictum (usually ascribed to Orson Welles) that «the enemy of art is the absence of limitations.»

It redefined action cinema by itself, pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable in motion pictures, and valorized the «heroic bloodshed» genre by elevating old Chinese dictums of honour and brotherhood into ballets of romanticized violence.

There's an old Hollywood dictum which states, don't shoot the puppy.

And both aspire to that old Bungie gaming dictum about offering 30 seconds of fun, and then repeating it over and over.

The more affluent Anglo - Saxons and older generation Latin Americans have much the same fertility rate as the white Europeans which doesn't violate any dictum — it utterly supports it.