Sentences with phrase «think of this truism»

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

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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.

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.»

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.

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.

Only those who think of others, and put them ahead of themselves truly escape that truism only to be trampled into the mud of poverty and loneliness by others who don't care.

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.

Youth doesn't even have striking images to impress with, its palette of visual ideas tipping its hat variously at Condé Nast Traveler, the sort of fashion photography that thinks naked old people are edgy, and the high - budget pop video, though it does have a vocabulary of bland truisms all of its own.

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.»

«One of the key things to investing, and I think this is a life truism, is to be aware when you hear a voice in your head that says, and you usually squint your eyes or you'll hear someone say the following words: «That doesn't make sense.»