Sentence examples for of truism from inspiring English sources

Mr. Widmer also happens to be the Amy Winehouse of truism addiction.

Too composed to be like real speech, such dialogue still uses colloquial patterns of truism and cliché.

It's a style developed at the pulpit, when the church was the only organisation independent of white supremacy, and combines charismatic delivery with a mixture of truism and teaching, parable and polemic.

It is the sort of truism that in another writer's hands might have come across as trite; in Blume's, it sounds simply as it is intended: wise, kind and endlessly accepting.

The authors have achieved such a mastery of truism that they sometimes achieve the same monumental effect even in non-magnitudinous statements, as: "Table 28-1 shows that the proportion of parents who indicated that their children will attend private colleges is approximately twice as large for those with incomes over $10,000 as for those with incomes under $3,000".

Its recipe for redemption, as in This Book Will Save Your Life, involves an uneasy mixture of truism (be nice to children, animals, strangers) and kitsch (form friendships with immigrants who work at fast food outlets, listen to the wise medicine man).

This community is fond of truisms, proverbs, clichés.

But the platitude seems in general to lack the saving grace of truisms, namely truth.

The contribution of these settlers has been overlooked because of that truest of truisms: history is written by the winners.

One scientific study blurs into the next, amid a blizzard of truisms ("And finally, we must be open to change") and references to Solon, the Buddha and Benjamin Franklin.

The aspect in question is the reduction of what used to be regarded as physical laws to the status of truisms or definitions.