Sentence examples for example of the dictum from inspiring English sources

It is a good example of the dictum that even paranoids have enemies.

The crowning example of this dictum is the David Bowie bootleg Dallas Moonlight On April 27 , 1983 Stevie Ray Vaughan--living embodiment of how abjectly corny blues music can be and the only person whose death I have ever fantasized about witnessing--joined Bowie on a soundstage in Texas to personally destroy 29 of the man's greatest hits.

Indeed, the physical fabric of Rome is perhaps the best example of Walter Benjamin's dictum "There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism".

Huston's Ivan is a living example of Orwell's dictum about men at the age of 50 having the faces they deserve (except that he's 40).

The latest growth figures are a classic example of Disraeli's dictum that there are three sorts of falsehoods: lies, damned lies and statistics.

And while Macbeth is a much-studied embodiment of the dictum "Be careful what you wish for," Racheal is a relatively unknown example of what happens when ardent prayers are never answered.

Either you get something done or you get the credit for it, but not both". Bas's work was a fine example of Smeed's dictum.

I don't know much about his life, but he seems a good example of Flaubert's dictum about being regular and orderly in your life so you can be violent and original in your work.

He then worked ceaselessly to obtain the relatively moderate settlement of the Dictum of Kenilworth (Oct . 31 , 1266

At the first, we clear our actions in the mirror (a recapitulation of the dictum "trust thyself").

The dictum upon which the Court relies, which consists essentially of a reiteration of the dictum from Osborn, can therefore scarcely be considered a reasoned consideration of the issues now before the Court.