| It is a truism to say that fieldwork is a prerequisite to any sort of research on Neotropical birds. |
| The sociological truism is that a societal order is shored up by its legitimations, which provide the defenses against its despisers. |
| An old truism about the perverse ways of big business surfaced again last week in the pages of the Financial Times. |
| No one denies the truism that the dreamer cannot really connect his dream with his waking past, which is one reading of this response. |
| This episode reinforces that old truism that there are two sides to each story and that neither is all white or all black. |
| It's a truism that as a general rule consumers seek bargains and businesses seek profits. |
