The legal acuteness, the passionate declamations, the sound maxims of jurisprudence, the wit and irony interspersed in it, the fluctuations of hope and fear in the different persons, and the completeness and suddenness of the catastrophe, cannot be surpassed".
"We are incompetent to solve the times," Emerson said (though, characteristically, he then went on to try to solve them), and that has always seemed a sound journalistic maxim to me.
The maxim " sounds better in French," the Swiss-born Mr. Tschumi added.
Although the last maxim sounds more straightforward, Kant is careful to emphasize its difficulty: it "can only be achieved through the combination of the first two and after frequent observance of them has made them automatic" (5:295).
If the structure of that trite maxim sounds familiar, you might've seen the old Ben Stiller superhero comedy Mystery Men in which "The Sphinx" character constantly recites words of wisdom, but he only just reverses the second part of the maxim.
Although the Popper´s maxim sounds too strict for neurobehavioral science, the above-mentioned case reports regarding late-onset autism may very well destabilize the paradigm of early-onset ASDs.
If the maxim be sound, that a delegated authority cannot be transferred to another to exercise, the project here spoken of will probably never take effect.
We asked ourselves whether there were good reasons to believe that hypothetical publicity should be considered a sound requirement to test maxims of action.
The maxim "Don't sound like a robot" is often repeated, and eventually it was possible to achieve this effect by imagining my words being read by a teen-ager.
Or why the Beethoven violin concerto sounds very different played by Maxim Vengerov than it does played by Joshua Bell.
