Sentence examples for maxim to be from inspiring English sources
It makes sense for this maxim to be stamped in tall lettering above the entrance to Dishonored's plague-ridden capital city, Dunwall.
(Maxim, to be fair, has a circulation of 2.5 million and sells almost 850,000 copies on the newsstand, while Esquire has a circulation of 740,000 and sells an average of 93,000 single copies).
From the time of nineteenth-century New York's great diarist, Philip Hone, who first declared New York's favorite maxim to be "overturn, overturn, overturn!" to today's Luc Sante and his biting critique that in New York the "past has no truck," New York has lived up to its cliche.
It doesn't always work: Robbers is a power ballad so bland that the mention of a gun in the first verse has one pleading for Chekhov's maxim to be ignored: don't wait for the third act to use it, pull the trigger now and let's pretend the whole song never happened.
It's often been said that animation is the perfect training ground for a medium in which storyboarding is central, and Bird follows in the grand tradition of Walerian Borowczyk, Terry Gilliam, Tim Burton et al in proving that maxim to be true.
The issue is not whether it would be good if everyone acted on my maxim, or whether I would like it, but only whether it would be possible for my maxim to be willed as a universal law.
In two experiments, we examined the children's ability to identify responses to questions as violations of conversational maxims (to be informative and avoid redundancy, to speak the truth, be relevant, and be polite).
The demand that singular structure be localized at a particular place bespeaks an old Aristotelian substantivalism that invokes the maxim, "To exist is to exist in space and time" (Earman 1995, p. 28).
Charities now understand a maxim – the advertisers' maxim – that to be successful, a campaign has to go viral.
"All governments lie," Stone's maxim, ought to be plastered across every journalist's desk.
To fit the template, Maxim has to be masterful, but even in a Mills and Boon novel the heroine puts up more of a fight.
