Sentence examples for In a maxim from inspiring English sources

The impact is evident even in one-liners, whose effect relies on the kind of succinctness we find in a maxim or proverb.

If a novelist could say it in a maxim they wouldn't need 120,000 words, several years and sundry characters, plots and subplots and so on.

"Everything is permitted," that master of the Russian tongue, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, wrote in "The Brothers Karamazov," in a maxim that could be applied to questions of language as well as philosophy.

Taylor Swift, who in 2012 dodged the feminist question ("I don't really think about things as guys versus girls"), by 2015 was dropping opinions on misogyny in a Maxim cover interview prefaced by a Roxane Gay essay.

"The great and almost only comfort about being a woman," Stark reflected, in a maxim that encompasses many such events in her illustrious career, "is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised".

His iconoclasm was evident just the same; that afternoon, many of Holik's teammates were participating in a Maxim photo shoot, but Bobby was more interested in the "Between Worlds: Kabul/New York" exhibit, a juxtaposition of photographs taken in the two cities during the fall of 2001.

A contradiction in conception happens when, if a maxim were to be universalized, it ceases to make sense because the "...maxim would necessarily destroy itself as soon as it was made a universal law".

Hence, in employing a maxim, any human willing already embodies the form of means-end reasoning that calls for evaluation in terms of hypothetical imperatives.

In other words, a maxim stated precisely enough to include the date of the police intervention could not be publicized.

The "supreme principle of the doctrine of virtue" is, "act in accordance with a maxim of ends that it can be a universal law for everyone to have" (MM 6 395).

For supporting fairness, we argue that fairness qualifies as a maxim in modeling.