It emphasises a continuity that may seem self-evident now but certainly didn't then.
He was full of perceptions that seem both familiar and self-evident now.
A clunky subtitle — "The Untrivial Pursuit" — calls attention to a premise that would seem to be self-evident: now that gossip looms so huge in public life, he contends, the "major rap" against it, "that it is trivial, is no longer the main thing to be said about it, if it ever was".
We call it "natural" selection, and it's an idea that explains so much in biology that it seems self-evident now.
The shameful sound bite inspired a new, 30-foot long mural titled, We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident, now on view at New York Live Arts, that makes art out of quotes from nearly 40 politicians who have, for decades, made odious public remarks about women's bodies and rights.
But after forty months with unemployment over 8 percent, that assumption isn't looking quite so self-evident right now.
Rarely have such conclusions seemed so self-evident as now, after the onset of financial maladies that resemble a chronic, degenerative disease.
But writing in a non-fictional mode, as in the essays of Known and Strange Things, permits me a more straightforward expression of what's at stake – and part of what's at stake is getting to the point where we say, "Come the fuck on, this should all be self-evident by now".
Karl Rove's assholedom should be self-evident by now.
Sure, that seems kind of self-evident, but now we've got the science to back it up.
While most of these two claims is self-evident, we now cite Carroll here.
