Sentences with phrase «something of a truism»

This is something of a truism.

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No one would disagree with the common - sense truth that it's easier to get yourself to do something you value, but rarely do most of us connect that simple truism with our anti-procrastination efforts.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

It's become something of a film festival truism that certain movies play better at high altitudes.

It's an oft - repeated truism that sound is 50 percent (or more) of the moviegoing experience (the sentiment is typically credited to George Lucas, but it's been cosigned by others including David Lynch), and while I find the claim tendentious most of the time, I admit that something like San Andreas really makes the case.

This is a truism — something that is overwhelmingly obvious after the announcement of the fact.

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....