truisms

One of the Oscar truisms is that if you want to win an Academy Award, play a handicapped or retarded person.

A Christmas Clarification joxn 2005

Above all else, we need to remember certain truisms about this dispute:

Combatting Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction 2003

They're willing to ignore the actual numbers and just fall back on truisms from the 1980s.

USATODAY.com - Time to blow up those AL, NL myths 2002

When these guys are talking about Chrome and Android merging, they're not talking about any kind of roadmap, they're just speaking in obvious, unusually long-term truisms, like they've been doing an awful lot lately: Two Linux-based operating systems from one company are bound to develop similarities; eventually, our computing usage will be totally centered around the web; in a decade, our notebooks and cellphones will probably be one device; the future is awesome; etcetera.

Gizmodo 2009

When these guys are talking about Chrome and Android merging, they're not talking about any kind of roadmap, they're just speaking in obvious, unusually long-term truisms, like they've been doing an awful lot lately: Two Linux-based operating systems from one company are bound to develop similarities; eventually, our computing usage will be totally centered around the web; in a decade, our notebooks and cellphones will probably be one device; the future is awesome; etcetera.

Gizmodo 2009

When these guys are talking about Chrome and Android merging, they're not talking about any kind of roadmap, they're just speaking in obvious, unusually long-term truisms, like they've been doing an awful lot lately: Two Linux-based operating systems from one company are bound to develop similarities; eventually, our computing usage will be totally centered around the web; in a decade, our notebooks and cellphones will probably be one device; the future is awesome; etcetera.

Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets 2009

One of writing’s truisms is this: Plot is character, and character is plot.

Back on the horse ... karenmiller 2007

He delights in truisms, the fashion of contemporary Europe (see

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

For me, problems have always been best solved through rigorous conversation with bright mentors, not by the five-word truisms stamped on countless "inspirational" posters around the world.

Seth Priebatsch: Drop Out Of School. Find An Incubator. Act Crazy. The Rest Is All Commentary. Seth Priebatsch 2010

These ‘Protocols’ at a first cursory glance might seem to be what we are accustomed to call truisms; they are more or less commonplaces although expressed with a boldness and a hatred not altogether customary in commonplaces.

The History of a Lie 'The Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion' Herman Bernstein 1905