Word: axiom
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...axiom that proves particularly true in the performing arts is that no matter how hard we try, nothing can ever be as great as it was the first time around. There is just something about premieres—the anxiety, the atmosphere, the surprise—which is almost impossible to replicate...
...feeling cool. She taught me that Americans can cook as well as the French without being all French about it. And now, when restaurants in New York City, San Francisco and even Las Vegas are as good as those in Paris, she has once again proved the American axiom that brashness trumps snobbery. That fact, even more than my totally awesome onion soup, is what has got me by. --By Joel Stein
...last challenger to unseat an incumbent President, Bill Clinton, ran on the axiom that it's "the economy, stupid." He won, but that does not make the assumption--that Presidents control the economy--any less fictitious. They do not. The idea that they do, the central motif of most every presidential election, is crazy...
...last challenger to unseat an incumbent President, Bill Clinton, ran on the axiom that it's "the economy, stupid." He won, but that does not make the assumption - that Presidents control the economy - any less fictitious. They do not. The idea that they do, the central motif of most every presidential election, is crazy...
BROCKTON, Mass.—Remember the axiom about baseball being a “thinking man’s game?...