| Her unconvincing speech was a loosely-connected string of truisms and cliches, with nary a story to give it substance. |
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| There are plenty of hackneyed truisms about ill-winds, silver-linings and darkness-before-dawns that can be tossed into the glumness. |
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| The sessions are homespun affairs, filled with truisms and real-life examples that anyone can relate to. |
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| Most baseball men subscribe to familiar truisms about talent, character, and the chemistry of winning teams. |
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| No-one should argue against teaching future citizens to think critically and to subject orthodoxies and truisms to rigorous examination. |
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| They were able to question the truisms that dominated British political thought, and thus set out in astonishingly new directions. |
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| You cannot just start writing down truisms, lest you end up writing prose, so how do you start poetically? |
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| You're making these statements that I'm assuming are correct, without knowing...these truisms that I have no way of verifying. |
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| Consider, however, the following four truisms about correlation. |
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| This is reducing the case against total relativism or constructivism to truisms, but truisms are nonetheless true. |
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| The aspect in question is the reduction of what used to be regarded as physical laws to the status of truisms or definitions. |
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| The sum of the details is more to be seen as a means to clear the path than to express truisms. |
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| These are truisms and I'm sure everyone here agrees, but we in Canada don't act on them. |
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| However, data must accurately reflect real-world truisms to be considered valuable information. |
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| In this way, the future of EU-NATO cooperation must rest on certain security truisms. |
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| Unfortunately, it seems that not everyone agrees with the truisms that began this article. |
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| A campaign built around apparent truisms, but with each one turned on its head to take a jab at other institutions. |
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| Dogmatic constraints, tactical stereotypes, schematism in place of originality, and the boring repetition of truisms are contributing factors in creative infecundity. |
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| Instead, Carson tends to alternate between inflammatory arguments and threadbare truisms. |
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| It seems a collection of truisms and motherhood statements that have little to do with the everyday practice of REBs and researchers. |
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| Describing it as a timetable for action' cannot disguise the fact that it is a hotch-potch of truisms that the women of Europe cannot expect will advance their cause. |
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| An overarching theme at the conference was the importance of carefully examining overly simplistic assumptions and truisms that have often become part of the instrument choice perspective. |
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| We submit that our youth recognize these truisms and act accordingly. |
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| For Ionesco, the clichés and truisms of the conversation primer disintegrated into wild caricature and parody with language itself disintegrating into disjointed fragments of words. |
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| The evolutionists felt that particularistic culture histories were immaterial in their quest for lawlike statements about the human condition and thus dismissed many of Boas's statements as mere truisms. |
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| Would the parliamentary secretary stop with his truisms? |
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| Comments: The substantive part of the draft Resolution adds little to the operative part on Resolution Conf. 8.3 and the remainder consists largely of truisms. |
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| Their game, rather, is to welcome the apparent inescapability of their situation and to juggle truisms until the viewer becomes disoriented by their dexterousness. |
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