| Her unconvincing speech was a loosely-connected string of truisms and cliches, with nary a story to give it substance. |
| They were able to question the truisms that dominated British political thought, and thus set out in astonishingly new directions. |
| You cannot just start writing down truisms, lest you end up writing prose, so how do you start poetically? |
| Most baseball men subscribe to familiar truisms about talent, character, and the chemistry of winning teams. |
| There are plenty of hackneyed truisms about ill-winds, silver-linings and darkness-before-dawns that can be tossed into the glumness. |
| No-one should argue against teaching future citizens to think critically and to subject orthodoxies and truisms to rigorous examination. |
