Sentence examples for maxim that only from inspiring English sources

Prada's progressive ideals were often reflected in her designs, which imparted an understated glamour and a refined elegance that stood in strong opposition to the overt sex appeal of many of the brand's competitors, prompting a reevaluation of femininity and challenging the industry maxim that only "sex sells".

"It's become a maxim of awards season that only those films that are serious contenders get smear campaigns, so perhaps these attacks are actually a good sign for the studios," the film industry bible said.

The old saying 'youth is wasted on the young' is a maxim that speaks volumes to Patricia, who finds herself only getting wilder and more authentic with age.

For Kant, an act is only permissible if one is willing for the maxim that allows the action to be a universal law by which everyone acts.

It is a good maxim that.

It turns the old maxim that voters only pay attention to political campaigns close to the election on its head.

A decade ago, when mass shootings were emerging as a frequent phenomenon, the conservative economist John Lott asserted that carry guns could halt those killings a precursor to the N.R.A.'s current maxim that "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun".

In the previous section we saw that, on Kant's view, the moral law is a purely formal principle that commands us to act only on maxims that have what he calls lawgiving form, which maxims have only if they can be willed as universal laws.