For nearly four decades, her work has sought out different ways of infiltrating public space and public consciousness, starting
with her Truisms series, which included the much - quoted «Abuse of Power Comes as No Surprise».
The problem
with truisms is that not all of them are actually true.
First, today's public discourse — rife
with truisms like «children first» and «focus on student needs, not adult issues» — suggests that teachers and staff should devote every ounce of their attention to students; anything else is said to be a distraction.
Facebook - owned Oculus and Taiwanese phone maker HTC have had to live
with these truisms since introducing their respective VR headsets, the Rift and the Vive, earlier this year.
I've always stuck hard
with the truism that oppositions don't win elections, government's lose them.
Michele Lee, owner of a chic little clothing boutique in Guelph, Ont., agrees
with the truism that Paris is always a good idea.
Not exact matches
This will show that company culture isn't just platitudes and
truisms plastered on the walls, together
with trendy logos and stock photos of fake smiles.
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.
We have never understood the
truism that most first - generation wealth is created on the strength of one idea or company, and then concludes
with the dubious assumption that in order to preserve it, it must be spread among a thousand other companies» Frank Martin
Within Mandelbrot's book lies many
truisms of the market,
with one of the most recurring themes being that traditional business school financial models are quite simply, wrong.
Husbands and single guys
with other weekend plans might even offer that
truism as an excuse for skipping church.
It is a
truism that the ecumenical age has replaced controversy
with dialogue — at least among those churches that emerged from the Reformation.
Owing to the disastrous confusion, more especially by Hume, of conceptual feelings
with perceptual feelings, 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.
One familiar facet of the principle is the
truism that the statute does not concern itself
with the lawfulness of the income that it taxes.
It is an obvious
truism that ideals flourish best when they can be connected
with the mutual self - interests of interacting parties.
It's a interesting
truism that atheists, while professing to be open to data / evidence / truth, nearly universally have so much personally tied up
with the belief, that they are in reality the most close minded, faith driven people I've ever come across..
This «axiom of positivity» he asserts to be a
truism, yet one
with immense consequences.19 One such consequence is that» «the non-existence of God» could have no possible positive meaning, and... this suffices to render it logically null and void.»
In the military world, it's a
truism that no plan survives contact
with the enemy.
It is a
truism that journalists like binary stories
with winners and losers, and success or failure — nuance will be more of a challenge.
Once again, she retreats into meaningless tautology or
truism when confronted
with a thorny issue.
As a result, he continues to lend
truism to the biblical injunction that (Proverbs 17:10) «A rebuke is more effective
with a man of understanding than a hundred lashes to a fool»
''... Younger Next Week has a secret weapon: author Elisa Zied... It's impressive that she can make
truisms that we all know, yet seldom act upon, sound both accessible and fun... The ideas laid out in Younger Next Week take just seven days to implement, but they're the kind of changes you will likely want to stick
with for the long haul.»
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.
Professional, Down to earth, hairy male, LTR oriented, like to make internal
truism of my island home oriented good cooker love to spend time
with that special person is you???
Avildsen and screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen (perhaps the most immodest human being on a planet that knows M. Night Shyamalan) return for this sequel and the next — proving a lot of things, chief among them the
truism that quality fades
with each successive Xerox and that maybe Avildsen is a hack who happens to have stumbled upon a couple of entertainingly macho soapers.
The troubling thing about the picture beyond its obvious troubling things is that
with the impending demise of the Miss America pageant (and
with The Donald threatening to acquire it), there is the
truism that people share the film's belief that pageants are horse - and - pony shows masquerading as scholarship opportunities and don't care about them unless — and here's the rub — you get the reality show behind - the - scenes of the beauties doing their best to scratch each other's eyes out.
One of the more consistently underlined
truisms in Hitchcock / Truffaut, a work of cinephilic devotion that takes the titular 1966 book as its starting point, is the notion of the master of suspense as a director
with full control over every effect in his films.
There's an irritating tendency for these scenes to end
with one character repeating an earlier
truism and reversing or otherwise altering it, as if the extent of emotional turmoil can be summed up by some wordplay.
But there's so much more wrong
with Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius than just the music, the winking title, and the
truism that for as boring as golf is to watch on television, it's that much more boring to watch in reverent celluloid slow motion — no, the picture is also fatally tagged by a terrible screenplay and terrible direction (that includes a half dozen ball's - eye view shots: not as interesting as you might misunderstand), as well as the dreadfully persistent belief that the measure of a man's life are the crescendos and valleys rather than the caesuras and grace notes.
When a frustrated Michael, his calm, collected façade all but shattered by an afternoon spent
with his mercurial father, asks (to no one in particular) why he can't hold it together and reverts back to a long - dormant, destructive pattern of father - son interaction, he's both uttering a
truism - bordering - on - cliché, but also speaking for every member of the audience
with a parent, a child, or a sibling (i.e., everyone).
With a rainbow - inflected wardrobe seemingly handed down from MADtv's Lorraine, Doris is a fantastically out - of - touch ditz whose emotional baggage is symbolized by her hording habit and whose every action is founded on the unfunny
truism that old folks say and do the darnedest things.
The third way this is funny is harsher, in that it begins to touch on the
truism that there are certain traits you're born
with, and while that's a no - brainer when it comes to the rest of the animal kingdom, it's a tough thing for most proud Judeo - Christians to accept.
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.
Stuffy British fish expert Ewan McGregor has some really funny deadpan moments and his inner office battles
with his boss wreak of
truism.
Supplier partnerships The key to dealing
with the above easily and effectively is to develop good supplier partnerships; it's a
truism for most aspects of business and running school trips is no different.
I hold myself accountable to the
truism that «if I am good enough, they will be smart enough» and I relish that in primary schools we have a real opportunity to fulfil this commitment; the mindsets and learning behaviours children can develop when they are
with the same teacher all day, every day, will set them up for life.
Amplification: Wagons are hopelessly mundane vehicles
with the sex appeal of bread boxes, built along uninspired lines because they're only intended for utility.Well you can scrap
truism No. 53 because the Ford Taurus wagon has come to town.
It's a human resources
truism that a guy
with 10 % of the necessary qualifications for a job will apply for it.
Those
with a long investing horizon, it's worth noting, actually benefit from lower stock prices in the near - term (though not many market participants seem willing to put this
truism to effective use).
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.
Jenny Holtzer Olympian Sign (Selections from the Living series,
Truisms, and the Survival series), 1986 Electric LED (light - emitting diodes) sign, programmed
with a text by the artist The John L. Stewart Collection Photo credit: E. Costa
All the while, Hanne Lippard's familiar voice filled the room, as her audio narrative «Dings (Horrorscope 2014)» (2013)-- a series of prophetic reflections on suffocating office atmospheres mixed
with astrological
truisms — emanated reassuringly from a laptop on a table.
Additionally, each painting in this series is routed
with dicho /
truism and indigenous Mexican characters and symbols, an invasive branding gesture which further re-adjusts a hierarchy that habitually marginalizes Americana and Chicanismo.
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.
Starting on the streets of New York
with simple fly - posters, she has gone on to disseminate her
truisms, slogans, memorials and poems through a variety of media.
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»).
It's a
truism German artist Dennis Loesch tackles
with the spirit of a post-digital impressionist, recreating it to speak through his own innovative practice.
Ms. Holzer has also placed 21 of her stone benches carved
with «
truisms» (such as «Your oldest fears are your worst ones») in nooks around the buildings.
Holzer's first dance project was in 1985, «Holzer Duet...
Truisms»
with Bill T. Jones.
Whether it's T - shirts, plaques or LED signs, she emblazons her medium of choice
with witty quotes — or
truisms — to create instantly satisfying pieces.