Word: truisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...REMARKABLE group of dancers, musicians and light technicians, building on the truism that "Action of one medium influences events in another" (from the program notes), created an evening of high imagination, beauty, and sheer fun at the Ex this past weekend. It is an evening spent in playful search of the "Elements of Dance," as the performers title the first half of the program by allowing free play to the "Dance of the Elements"--the second half...
Should the Trustees and the Council refuse any concessions to these truly reasonable demands, students could reject any and all self-government rather than put up with an unwanted bastard. It is a truism that the College administration, the Trustees, and the students would be the poorer...
...truism that oil companies will go almost anywhere to find oil-and the jungles of Colombia are no exception. In 1963, after 15 years of geological surveys, Texaco discovered oil in the wilds of Putumayo on the Ecuadorian border. The find was among the world's richest; the location was one of the world's worst...
...King Berenger learns in his last 90 minutes is an existential truism: one dies alone, with no quarter given and no help available. The only person who begs the king to cling to life is his succulently attractive second wife, young Queen Marie (Patricia Conolly). The pompous court physician is professionally adamant about the exactitude of his countdown to death, and the carping old crone (Eva Le Gallienne) who was the king's first wife adopts a get-on-with-it tone...
These differences reflect a truism: patriotism has become more individualistic as U.S. society has grown more complex. The U.S. people, in their modern, more urban way of life, are better educated, more aware of the world and more sophisticated than their forebears. For the past decade, the young have grown up in an era of selfcriticism, and have learned to question American assumptions. They have also learned an idealism that often lacks realism-no tably an awareness that power and politics are inescapable facts of international life. Their definition of patriotism must be worked out in the context...