Sentences with phrase «trite observation»

Just take the trite observation that everything is connected to everything else; complexity is the order of the day, and our hope that some things will stay steady while we whack on others becomes ever more foolish as the scope of our engineering, social or mechanical, increases.

Though I'm surely just flogging a dead horse with this trite observation that social media is everywhere, «Twitter» as a keyword occurred 70 times between June 2007 and January 2014 in Quicklaw results, but in the last 13 months alone it occurred in 40 cases.

To say that justice delayed is justice denied is a trite observation.

Anyone who says it doesn't is either a spin - doctor for a losing candidate or someone who can't see beyond the true but trite observation that by - elections are not general elections.

I made the rather trite observation that the supreme triumph or failure in this regard (depending how one sees the matter) is, of course, Milton's.

So I hereby coin Carey's Law, which holds that trite observations are more likely to be regarded as sacred principles if someone happens to describe them as laws.

Not exact matches

It might make sense to sift through this cacophony if it were full of investing gems, but much of the advice, predictions and observations are trite, if not downright harmful.

Lindzen has published a couple of hundred papers in climatology, so I think we can assume he knows that the statement «there has been no statistically significant warming since 1995» means nothing more than «given the variability in the data, we need at least 15 observations to reject the null hypothesis at 95 per cent confidence», a fact so trite as not to be worth mentioning.