Sentences with phrase «truism at»

It's a truism at this point to observe that Americans are deeply polarized — along party lines — on climate change.

«Leaps in medical technology are always based on discoveries in basic sciences,» Gomelsky said «It is good to remember this simple truism at the time when politicians call for drastic decreases in science funding.»

The rivalry had a certain truism at this point: Florida was probably going to beat Georgia in the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party.

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.

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I'm just trying to make sure that there's at least one contrarian and maybe one voice of realism among this season's many purveyors of touching truisms, pious platitudes, and bumper sticker BS — all of which feels like it was written by either Hallmark or hacks whose prior Republican clients and «candidates» are now sitting on the sidelines sucking their thumbs and watching The Donald drive the bus off the bridge.

But in his shoes, at my next public appearance, I would say something like: «An economic truism about trade is not a policy pronouncement.

They eat and drink at the bar of Google, as if Google, or any internet information, is absolute truism.

It is a truism that the ecumenical age has replaced controversy with dialogue — at least among those churches that emerged from the Reformation.

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.

The dinner was free to all; and more than twenty thousand greasy fingers testified their owners» appreciation of the eatables, and gave at least one - third of the guests a reasonable excuse to get off that venerable truism about fingers being made before forks.

It seems like we were mostly willing to accept that at face value, and now it's become a truism.

It is a truism of medicine that doctors mostly can not «save» lives anyway, since we are all going to die at some point.

At my age, looking at my peers who are lean (and those who aren't), I'd say that the truism is that any diet that lowers insulin and supplies adequate protein «works» for health and fitnesAt my age, looking at my peers who are lean (and those who aren't), I'd say that the truism is that any diet that lowers insulin and supplies adequate protein «works» for health and fitnesat my peers who are lean (and those who aren't), I'd say that the truism is that any diet that lowers insulin and supplies adequate protein «works» for health and fitness.

At the bottom is the tagline, «WOMAN WARRIOR QUEEN» — a line that should incite awed admiration if it were a truism.

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.

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

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.

Donald Sutherland, a paranoic early sixties pothead, nods solemnly at sophomoric truisms and admits he's as bored by Milton as everyone else.

Atlanta excelled at a strange mix of real - life brutal truisms, humor and friendship, and clashed all of its tones together as needed, loosely telling everyone's story for 10 episodes.

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.

«The Battle of Algiers» extrapolates on historic truisms regarding occupations from the perspective of the occupied freedom fighters, i.e. occupied people, always fight harder and better than their occupiers because they have more at stake.

One truism of buying mortgages at a premium in the»90s was that the ability to refinance got sharper and sharper.

Right up there with «don't adopt pets during the holidays» and «don't adopt black cats at Halloween» stands one of the longest lasting truisms of animal welfare: Pets given as gifts are a bad idea.

William Shakespeare once wrote that «All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances...» At PAX East 2015 last week, indie developer Robot Loves Kitty announced a game that takes the Bard's truism to a whole different -LSB-...]

Curators William Keyse Rudolph and Carol Eaton Soltis, the organizers of Thomas Sully: Painted Performance at the San Antonio Museum of Art, argue that Sully — who grew up in the theater and launched his career painting actors and actresses, often in character — was instinctively in sync, even presciently so, with the 21st - century truism that all portraiture is performative.

Melancholy photographs, bronze truisms, museum interventions, a giant battleship, and more in today's roundup: Tonight at 6 pm, Season 5 artist Doris Salcedo will speak at the Americas Society in New...

The exhibition Fiat Lux at the gallery Ruzicska in Salzburg, Austria, gathers works that deal with light by Jenny Holzer («Four Corners: Truisms, Living» and «Torso»), Brigitte Kowanz («Ad infinitum», «Brightness», «Remoteness» and «Vision»), François Morellet («4 í 4 no. 3» and «Lunatique neonly — 16 quarts de cercle No. 6»), Maurizio Nannucci («Listen to your eyes»), Keith Sonnier («Ballroom Chandelier»), James Turrell («Squat, Red»), and Richard Long («Seeming lightness of light»).

Such concise allegations elicit public discussion, directly engaging viewers in a larger discourse on society that often broaches polemical issues.The medium of modern computer systems became an important component in Holzer's work in 1982 when nine of her Truisms flashed at forty - second intervals on the giant spectacolor electronic signboard in Times Square.

Jenny Holzer's LED work, «Truisms: UNEX sign,» is among 38 lots going under the gavel at Phillips in New York on May 17.

Presented at the Athens School of Fine Arts, «The Factory,» and taking its title from Jenny Holzer's Truisms, Everything That's Interesting Is New explored the interplay between art and popular culture.

We looked at Barbara Kruger's work and Jenny Holzer's use of truisms, coupling our discussion of Holzer's work with aphorisms and epigrams.

History, as we know, repeats itself — a truism Henry Taylor evinces with mordant effect for his recent exhibition at Blum & Poe.

At a first glance, the above summary does not sound spectacular but more like a truism that we've often heard over the years.

Much of the problem is that everyone is used to looking at anomalies here anomalies there and everyone has lost any sense of the truism that in absolute temperature the sun warms the surface and the surface warms the atmosphere.

That's a feat beyond Chaos Theory at this time, though there are some truisms of the field.

As I've said at this blog before, this «evidence» is little more than a truism.

Decades later, this fragment from a largely forgotten speech is an obvious truism, albeit a truism continually lost on governments in most countries and at all levels.

If the Woolf scheme were to be delivered as intended by the courts, it would provide an even better system for parties keen for swift and affordable outcomes than at present, and it has always been a truism for Lord Woolf that it is for the benefit of litigants that our civil justice system must unswervingly be directed.

One of our lawyers is fond of stating the truism that «charity starts at home,» meaning that if we aren't taking the right steps to stay financially afloat, then we will be... [more]

One of our lawyers is fond of stating the truism that «charity starts at home,» meaning that if we aren't taking the right steps to stay financially afloat, then we will be forced to close up shop and will be unable to continue to serve our clients.

At its core is a property's location (i.e., the real estate axiom of «location, location, location» is in fact a truism) and the simple value of the land upon which the property is situated.