| 单词 | truism |
| 例句 | To all these questions I offer the same truism: ifs amazing what you can get used to. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Though, indeed, the vendor of a certain nostrum has vulgarised the truism to the very point of contempt. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z As a moral declaration the old truism seems perfectly true, and yet because it abstracts, because it generalizes, I can’t believe it with my stomach. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Though it is a truism to emphasize the stunting of free Greek city life in Hellenistic times, Cyrene in the early third century was no mere political appendage of Alexandria. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z It is a truism of human nature that people learn to hate those who help them. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Adams presidency, in fact, might be the classic example of the historical truism that inherited circumstances define the parameters within which presidential leadership takes shape, that history shapes presidents, rather than vice versa. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The boy preserved worldly truism and matter-of-fact observations about the weather with equal zeal. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z This seems like a truism until it is lived. I don’t know how to discuss being raped: I am different, permanently, but there’s no language to describe how 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z It's a truism to say that history always teaches us about the present, but the lessons of "A Film Unfinished" may be useful the next time you hear someone ranting about the "ground zero mosque." "A Film Unfinished": A Nazi movie, uncovered 2010-08-18T20:10:00Z It is a truism that the South became industrialized when air-conditioning became more widely available. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z This year on a regular cadence as it was last year, as it will be next year I get to trot out my truisms about the Thanksgiving holiday. Alton Brown is wrong, listen to The New York Times’ Sam Sifton & stop brining your Thanksgiving... 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z It’s a truism that applies to a lot more than fashion. The Collaboration to End All Collaborations 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z The truism holds for whatever "it" is: an extra diaper; the bubbles; a half-eaten granola bar. My number one parenting trick? Always save those two last bites 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z So even though it’s a truism of American public discourse that the Civil War never ended, it’s also literally true. Welcome to the new Civil War 2013-01-05T16:30:00Z Breakup truism: “Your bridges were burned, and now it’s your turn to cry.” 12 Breakup Videos Better Than 'Get Her Back' by Robin Thicke 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z And yet, back then, Hollywood studios still held to the truism that “black doesn’t travel,” insisting that foreign audiences wouldn’t accept films by or about people of color. Perspective | John Singleton helped redefine American pop culture, and his impact is still being felt today 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z It’s a truism that eating in the United States has changed more in the last 25 years than in the preceding 50. Cook’s Illustrated’s Christopher Kimball Believes Cooking Is Ultraserious Business 2012-10-14T16:30:31Z Readers are left instead with vague truisms about American social mobility. Review | Scholars have dismissed debutante balls, but ‘The Season’ digs in to the strange, fascinating history 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z It's a truism that when we travel abroad, we often learn more about our own country than the one we're visiting. Frugal Traveler Blog: For Obama and Romney, a To-Do List for Travelers 2012-08-14T21:48:46Z Wayne falls back on the gambler’s truism about playing the hand you’ve been dealt, but that advice is more complicated than it sounds, and in any case rodeo isn’t like poker. Review: ‘The Rider’ Is an American Regional Film to Savor 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z She surely embraces every outrageous costume, outre wig, truism, business card and, indeed, every last theatrical moment. This Dolly hits all the high notes 2010-12-28T15:32:00Z A glib observation, but also a truism playfully inhabited within these pages as the psychologist laments and celebrates “this hall of mirrors that we call life.” The Patient Is Obsessed With Sex. But How Reliable Is Her Therapist? 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z The old truism — don’t work with children or animals — speaks exactly to why they are the ideal stars of both early actualities and of contemporary Facebook videos. The Silent Film Returns — on Social Media 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z It’s pretty much a truism that séances in real life are never a big deal while séances in pop culture are never not a big deal. 'Penny Dreadful' Recap: Cue the Seance 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z There’s no end of paradox in Hollywood’s patronizing attitude toward female viewers, especially given the long-held marketing truism that in a date-night situation, the woman’s vote typically holds more sway than the man’s. The “man crisis,” continued 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z Mr. Meacham’s thoughts about this part of Jefferson’s life are truisms too. Books of The Times: ‘Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power,’ by Jon Meacham 2012-11-20T22:57:50Z It is a truism that, in theater, an audience is co-creator of every performance. Chicago’s Neo-Futurists courses with punk rock energy in ‘Too Much Light’ 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z All her opinions are weekend-supplement truisms, and her voice itself is uneven, as if she is in the habit of casting aside her Dr Johnson for an hour or two with trash TV. The Widow's Tale by Mick Jackson 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z Social media exploded with invective, revealing a new truism of the rising age of television: There is no fury like a super fan scorned. For 'The Killing,' closure is less than thrilling 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z It's a truism that goes right back to film's disreputable beginnings as a peep-show at the circus. Naked in New York: Gérard Depardieu strips for the big screen 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Well, I had forgotten this truism when it came to my high expectations for the arrival of Ellen DeGeneres as the fourth American Idol judge. 2010-02-10T13:11:00Z What transmits, as in “I Feel Pretty,” is a Hallmark ventriloquism, though one story she tells feels deeper than truism. “Growing,” Reviewed: What Amy Schumer Won’t Expose 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z For people who write more than one, the truism can probably be amended to say: every person has one easy-to-write novel in him – one ready-made meaningful narrative. Jonathan Franzen: the path to Freedom 2012-05-25T21:55:12Z Like most truisms, this is sound advice, but it is not a good poem by any stretch. Wresting Insight, and Poetry, From Pain 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Again and again, Ms. Maye embraced show tunes that beat the drums for savoring the moment, wrapping her rich, robust voice around perky, cheerleading lyrics with an earthy conviction that revitalized their feel-good truisms. Music Review: The Broadway That?s Forever Buoyant 2010-10-12T21:37:00Z Growing up poor in what he terms “New York’s rawest, remotest, cheapest ghetto,” he embodied the kind of corny truisms about reading you might find embroidered on throw pillows or painted on nautical-style wood signs. Alfred Kazin’s “A Walker in the City” charts an intellectual awakening, block by block 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z It's held as a general truism that sex is everywhere because "sex sells". Despite Virginia Johnson's legacy, we're still screwed-up about sex 2013-07-26T17:33:54Z It’s a sad truism, but people who struggle in this country really struggle. “Daddy Don’t Go” smashes stereotypes of disadvantaged “deadbeat” dads: “Stability is the biggest gift that you get when you enter the middle class” 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z If there’s a truism about Mola, it’s this: The larger the plate, the smaller the reward. Review | A peaceful neighborhood haunt serving the flavors of Spain 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z Start with the comic Martin Mull’s oft-repeated truism, which was quoted to the Bagger last night: “Hollywood is high school with money.” A Taylor Swift-Harvey Weinstein Moment and Other Post-Globes Memories 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z It's an oft-lamented truism that Britain never produced an artistic revolutionary of Picasso's stripe. This week's new exhibitions 2012-02-11T00:05:00Z It’s a truism that we are all products of our own history. Gucci’s 600 Years of Inspiration 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z It came to me as a revelation, one of those truisms that strike with lightning clarity when you’re hiding in the dark. My Marriage: A Course in Desert Survival 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z The easiest, quickest and dumbest truism is that the Nazis unfairly demonized great artists, creating a pantheon of artist-martyrs whom we continue to celebrate today in part as recompense for how savagely they were treated. Artworks labeled degenerate in Nazi Germany are N.Y. hit It is a truism of the history of dress that decade-defining looks generally don’t congeal until quite late in the period they eventually come to represent. Women, Fashion Has You Covered 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Her unbreakable calm surfaces the album’s secret truism: Just because something is supposed to hurt a certain way doesn’t mean it has to. Review | Kacey Musgraves made a divorce album that sounds like easy-listening 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z These quirky truisms you see at, like, a Cracker Barrel. ‘The Heart, She Holler’ Is Back on Adult Swim 2013-08-30T17:10:24Z Now this apparent truism is being challenged as a violation of civil rights. A.C.L.U., Citing Bias Against Women, Wants Inquiry Into Hollywood’s Hiring Practices 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z The laziest scripts on Earth over-explain themselves, starting with redundant voice-over narration and finishing with the weariest truisms, bromides and rules to live by. ‘Paranoia’: Slow, slick, superficial smartphone thriller 2013-08-15T22:28:31Z It’s kind of a truism among actors — I remember being told this when I was training — that the way to appear drunk is to try and be sober. Ritchie Coster on Playing the Drunk Mayor on 'True Detective' 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z Breakup truism: “I can have another you in a minute. Matter fact, he’ll be here in a minute, baby.” 12 Breakup Videos Better Than 'Get Her Back' by Robin Thicke 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z But we have to remember two truisms about novels made into films: 1. Olive Kitteridge at Venice: An Our Town for Our Time 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Still, as the fashion truism might go, what goes down must eventually go up. Sneakers: Where Can’t They Go? 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z It's as deep and all-consuming a document as a set of scriptures, one filled with nearly as many hallowed stories, ancient truisms and snapshot revelations. Box-set highlights: Paramount Records, William Onyeabor, Joni Mitchell 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z It's a truism that the original Scream, released in 1997, transformed the modern horror film. 'I never wanted to be an actor,' says screen star Neve Campbell 2011-04-07T21:05:01Z Aug. 9 It’s a Hollywood truism that when it’s good news, everyone gets on the phone; when it’s bad news, it’s just your manager. One Writer’s Diary for Television Pitch Season 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z It’s a truism that stand-up comedy is harder than it looks. Review: ‘Misery Loves Comedy’ Puts Stand-Up in the Spotlight 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z The two leads prove a Hollywood truism that extends from Bing Crosby to David Bowie and beyond: singers are natural actors. Joyful Noise: Is it Awfully Nice or Just Plain Awful? 2012-01-12T21:30:09Z Breakup truism: “Every time you speak her name, does she know you told me you’d hold me until you died?” 12 Breakup Videos Better Than 'Get Her Back' by Robin Thicke 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z It might be a well-worn truism but fact is definitely stranger than fiction. Paperback Q&A: JJ Connolly on Viva La Madness 2012-07-17T14:29:30Z “Silent Night,” by contrast, is merely inconsequential — a meringue-y puff of dry sweetness offering truisms in the guise of a message, even a plot. Review | War is hell, and other original insights: ‘Silent Night’ at the opera 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z The truism that families come in all shapes and sizes is illuminated with haunting beauty in the new play “Kin,” by Bathsheba Doran. | 'Kin': No Connection Is Too Far, or Unlikely 2011-03-22T02:01:24Z It’s such a truism to talk about Aaron’s “way with words,” but I was a huge fan. “Anger Management”: Charlie Sheen’s crass comeback 2012-06-26T15:15:00Z One of the truisms of the “Star Wars” series is that its battle between good and bad has always uneasily and sometimes openly mirrored the attendant struggle between good and bad filmmaking. ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Embraces the Magic and Mystery. Read Our Review. 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z He is also the honorary mayor of Pacific Palisades in California, and in that capacity has been reminded of a show business truism: You just never know what people will latch onto. 2010-01-09T04:30:00Z “There’s a truism about teaching with books,” Mr. Dimunation said as the class erupted in titters. Rare Book School at the University of Virginia 2012-07-23T22:19:23Z How does a truism on a T-shirt differ from one on an advertising billboard or a street poster? | Jenny Holzer Takes On South Africa 2010-06-15T19:15:00Z It has become a truism to notice that the romance of vampires and other creatures in the Twilight books and movies is a metaphor for abstinence and denial. Pure hell 2010-07-08T21:09:00Z Without it, she said, “literature is nothing but an echo chamber of the fleeting platitudes and truisms that afflict every culture.” Writers Gather to Read Salman Rushdie and Support Free Speech 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z The parents’ soliloquies, in particular, frequently lapse into truisms. Four Social Novels in Translation Consider the World’s Ills 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z This is true even in its strained, connect-the-dots second act, when the dialogue includes way too many self-help truisms. Theater Review: In ‘Ode to Joy,’ Characters Are Bonded by Addictions 2014-02-28T03:00:01Z The resulting film underlines the political truism that the people calling the shots are often not the ones at the podium. 8 Political Campaign Documentaries Worth Streaming 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z But recall the management truism that organizational culture eats strategy for breakfast. Perspective | Culture of misogyny makes O’Reilly’s hotline defense nothing short of ridiculous 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Now, a new study claims to have debunked this truism, which is known as the “damaged goods hypothesis.” Study: Porn stars aren’t “damaged” 2012-11-28T00:00:00Z All these truisms, he wrote, were “in the service of Clarity, without which nothing else matters.” Towering musical theater master Stephen Sondheim dies at 91 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z It's a truism to complain that these labels are marketing ideas of authenticity, and it's an unfair gripe when much of what gets their promotional push is so beautiful. Tom Ewing 2010-04-29T21:30:00Z Unfortunately, Mathews’s work also demonstrates another truism about a novel, which is that writing one is like setting off into a trackless wood. A Debut Novel Imagines Political Intrigue at the 1939 World’s Fair 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z That truism is illustrated anew to dazzling effect in Nina Raine’s “Consent,” which has immediately announced itself as an early contender for the most blistering new play of the year. Adultery With a Difference on the London Stage 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z There’s a well-known truism you’ve probably heard which reminds us regular folk that celebrity has its price. She’s a trainwreck: new book speculates about the human propensity for trash talk 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Over the years, I’ve found that in interviewing famous people, the truism tends to be that while you meet them, they rarely meet you. Michael Urie thrives in ‘Buyer & Cellar,’ a story of Barbra Streisand that she’s unlikely to see After the resignation of the president, Selina now runs the Oval Office and realizes the truism of answered prayers. TV Picks: Orphan Black, iZombie, Veep 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z It is a truism that American theater is more often concerned with the personal than the political, with individual lives rather than grand historical movements, and this may in some ways explain the dearth. In pursuit of US theatre's past perfect 2010-12-22T12:45:04Z Imitating his grandmother’s voice, he imparts mystical truisms in halting, broken English. Movie Review: Vikram Gandhi’s ‘Kumaré: The True Story of a False Prophet’ 2012-06-19T22:02:15Z It’s been a truism for decades: some movies are made for no reason but to be nominated for Oscars. August: Osage County: Stumbling on the Road to Oscar 2014-01-08T22:42:01Z This is a Christmas truism in my family, even now, nearly three years after her death. How I found Christmas again in Grandma Ruth's peanut butter balls 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z A truism of the physical world plays out in all the nooks and crannies of a theater: Things fall apart. How Broadway’s set-making guru is tackling the comeback — from mold in stage fog to costumes that don’t fit anymore 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Describing how she learned to hold a stage as commandingly as she does, she lightly tosses off a line that sounds like a Jimmy Stewart truism: “I learn from m’ betters. Donna Migliaccio hits her stride 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z So, another truism about journalism: the more you read and research, the more questions you have. Learn direct: can theatre directing be taught? 2011-01-11T13:42:23Z But to say that this virus might mutate is a misleading truism; viruses continually mutate as they replicate, introducing small random errors into their genomes; and coronaviruses mutate more abundantly than many others. The Pandemic’s Future — and Ours 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z It’s a truism that painters change the way we see the world. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z For anyone to interpret Mr. Blake’s falsetto that way would be a truism. Review: ‘The Colour in Anything’ Mourns Lost Connections 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z It’s a journalistic truism that the earliest reports of a major news story, whether a mass shooting or natural disaster, are likely to contain errors, sometimes serious ones. Perspective | The Twitter-fed disaster over Epstein’s death demands a solution: Slow news 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z This was a truism when I was trying and failing to have a career in music – the idea that if you banged on enough doors for long enough, you'd eventually "make it". Don't knock The X Factor, Elton 2010-10-19T13:05:00Z I cannot help but feel the truism: Cities are made by people, often just a few very determined ones fighting small, decades-long battles, block by block. A 17-Mile Hike to Unite San Francisco 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Kevin Young's book "Bunk" would help you tiptoe up to an expansion of the truism, "You can't con the honest" because he writes brilliantly, savagely, about the impulse to con. Novelist Jonathan Lethem: "There is no allegory crude enough" to capture Trump's America 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z The Christmas Day spread is the clearest demonstration of this truism. How to craft a perfectly balanced roast dinner | Roasts: A handbook 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z The hopeless polarization of American society is both a truism and a taboo. Review: Salma Hayek Skewers a Boor in ‘Beatriz at Dinner’ 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Breakup truism: “I don’t want to be your fool in this game for two.” 12 Breakup Videos Better Than 'Get Her Back' by Robin Thicke 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z That truism applies to Coppola, who channels his 1986 family tragedy into the horrific mood of Dementia 13. Francis Ford Coppola's 3-D Twixt in Toronto: The Third D Is for Dementia 2011-09-16T17:10:00Z Breakup truism: “The scars of your love, they leave me breathless. I can’t help feeling we could have had it all.” 12 Breakup Videos Better Than 'Get Her Back' by Robin Thicke 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z One is never alone in the garden: a truism expressed as many different ways as there are garden writers. A Bumper Crop of Gardening Books 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z That’s one of the truisms in “The Big Sick,” a joyous, generous-hearted romantic comedy that, even as it veers into difficult terrain, insists that we just need to keep on laughing. Review: In ‘The Big Sick,’ Comedy Is Hard, Love Harder 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z After watching the season premiere of "Mad Men," I have hit upon my own truism: It's such a fine line between challenging and annoying. Don Draper: Stuck in place as 'Mad Men' drifts? 2013-04-08T03:03:08Z That truism is based in fact, Jenna explains, and her mother’s research proved it. Book review: ‘Leaving Time’ by Jodi Picoult We are often told: Be yourself, express your desires, avoid vanity—all psychobabble truisms. The Age of Creepiness 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z As I’m pondering this depressing truism, she adds, “Because girls aren’t allowed to confront big questions! Their experience is cordoned off and diminished. We see this over and over again.” Before I Fall: The Girl’s Guide to Saving the World 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z It's a writerly truism – probably best illustrated by William Goldman in Adventures in the Screen Trade – that only real life can get away with the really outrageous stuff. Iain Banks: the final interview 2013-06-15T07:07:55Z Her mother begins to open up, albeit starting off with the truism, “It’s harder to be a girl in India than you think.” Can India Be Her Homeland, Even if She’s Never Been There? 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Over the years, my spiel got shorter and shorter as truisms fell by the wayside, and my confidence waned in a field where we know less, rather than more, over time. Perspective | Here’s what the government’s dietary guidelines should really say 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z “I confess I am on a mission to dismantle certain truisms . . . about nature, nurture, genes, twin studies, and the ‘hardwired’ brain,” she writes. Siri Hustvedt wonders why we revere the intellect and distrust the body 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z One truism about contemporary life is that there are no more secrets. This Life: In an Age of Lessening Privacy, Some Family Secrets Persist 2014-01-17T23:41:18Z By operating non-hierarchically, and in opposition to what are elsewhere considered financial truisms, they make an alternative society look not just attractive but attainable. Godspeed You! Black Emperor: 'You make music for the king and his court, or for the serfs outside the walls' 2012-10-11T09:18:00Z And what these reveal is something more than the old truism that there is no progress in art, only change. From Death to Death and Other Small Tales: Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the D Daskalopoulos Collection – review 2012-12-23T00:06:37Z Franchises operate on an axis of sameness and difference, so it’s amusing that one incorporates that truism into its actual character design. Review: Positions Wanted by Minions Experienced at Serving Evildoers 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Breakup truism: “We hadn’t seen each other in a month, when you said you needed space. What?” 12 Breakup Videos Better Than 'Get Her Back' by Robin Thicke 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z He tossed out a few comic truisms that he said all Americans should agree with: “KitKats should be eaten in segments, not bitten into like a normal candy bar, you animal.” For Stephen Colbert, a Very Uncomfortable Election Night 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z "It's a very slippery thing to try to get out any truisms about war," he said in an interview about the film. Tim Hetherington: War Hero Who Shot With a Camera 2011-04-21T10:20:00Z “Squid Game” has nothing to say about inequality and free will beyond pat truisms, and its characters are shallow assemblages of family and battlefield clichés, set loose upon a patently ridiculous premise. Haven’t Watched ‘Squid Game’? Here’s What You’re Not Missing. 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z It was a truism of the old art world, perhaps a conceit or maybe a genuine truth, that it forced us into uncomfortable places, challenged assumptions, refashioned basic ways of seeing. Perspective | As the art world reopens, will the change be genuine? This critic is looking in some unlikely places. 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z Some truisms bear repeating: when in doubt, ask a local. Next Stop: Drawn to the Magnet of Chile’s Surf Coast 2012-09-14T16:40:33Z It comes as he's staring at that tree, reliving the old neighborhood and the truism that few of us ever really leave. 'Grease' gets its grit back 2011-04-23T15:21:37Z If, as the Shakespearean truism goes, comedies end in marriage and tragedies in death, then dramedy ends in both, and then some. Review: Parenthood's Finale Brings It All Back Home 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Artists talk about creativity feeding off restraints, self-imposed or otherwise, a truism architects have to live by. 7 Bryant Park Embraces Its Place in the City 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z It’s a truism that a happy ending depends on stopping a story at just the right moment. ‘Into the Woods’ Review: Some Enchanted Evening 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z It’s among the trustiest truisms of show business. Joe Pera and the Surprising Pleasures of Gentle Humor 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z Speaking of roasting, that last salad — roasted sweet potatoes, segmented citrus and dried golden raisins — reminds me of a universal salad truism. You deserve a better fruit salad 2022-05-29T04:00:00Z And as the truism goes, "Sunday is the most segregated day of the week": Black and brown and white Christians do not pray or worship together. Losing “Hap and Leonard” in the Trump age: “This show was an inoculation for some people” 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z IT is a truism that summer traffic in the Hamptons is insane. Not That Kind of Nose Job 2011-07-21T22:28:02Z “Wonderland” transforms Alice’s surreal wanderings into a contemporary parable about reconnecting with your inner child and other watery truisms of the self-help industrial complex. | 'Wonderland': There?s No Place Like Queens 2011-04-18T02:01:04Z The occasional phrases, mostly derived from truisms, are both a contrast to the abstract images and an acknowledgment of human communication breakdowns. Review | In the galleries: Tracing a generational progression in abstract art 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z Selvaratnam is at her most powerful when she tells her own story rather than rehashing familiar feminist truisms or quoting experts. Two Memoirists Explore Abuse and Survival 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z But the truism that less is more is as viable an argument in theater as it is in other aesthetic realms. Two-Character Plays Are Highlights of Theater Season 2010-05-08T02:40:00Z “In short, combining two truisms about playas and haters, both well-worn notions as of 2001, is simply not enough,” the judge said in his ruling. Taylor Swift shakes off copyright lawsuit over hit song 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Here is a truism about social media like Twitter and Facebook: the smaller the profile picture, the greater the fantasizing. Modern Love: GPS on a Path to the Heart 2011-02-11T01:08:11Z It’s a depressing truism that Ms. Spears never seemed more like a real hurting person than when she was buzz-clipping her hair during her public meltdown. | 'Country Strong': I Am Woman. Hear Me Sob, Y?All. 2011-01-06T22:53:01Z It's such an obvious truism that there is very little objective reality, especially in personal relationships. Dominic West and Ruth Wilson of 'The Affair' lighten up for a chat 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z One truism of the music business in the 21st century: AC/DC will sell a ton of albums, no matter the prevailing digital format. AC/DC Debuts at No. 1, Powered by CD Sales 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z “The truisms find new life in a South African context — they reach across social, economic and political differences.” | Jenny Holzer Takes On South Africa 2010-06-15T19:15:00Z What are the most important truisms about the Thanksgiving holiday? Alton Brown is wrong, listen to The New York Times’ Sam Sifton & stop brining your Thanksgiving... 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z But here we arrive at Sprackland's eco-solemnity, a problem of tone, and a tendency to employ truisms, that interferes with her otherwise absorbing narrative. Strands – A Year of Discoveries on the Beach by Jean Sprackland – review 2012-07-27T21:45:12Z The digital screens intone that simply speaking Tut’s name will ensure his immortality — a marketing truism faking ancient profundity in an automated performance heavy on the ham and cheese. How good is the King Tut exhibition? An art critic weighs in 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z But the truism gains some heft if looked at from a different angle. ‘Graves Without a Name’ Review: An Impossible Quest in Cambodia 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Paying Homage to Japan’s Raw Edges “THE eye adjusts,” as fashion people say, a truism routinely exploited in defense of styles so extreme that they often affront conventional tastes. Paying Homage to Japan?s Raw Edges 2010-10-07T00:18:00Z Pundits, armchair and professional, will find that several of their long-cherished truisms are not true at all. The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Football Is Wrong – review 2013-05-24T08:00:03Z “In short, combining two truisms about playas and haters, both well-worn notions as of 2001, is simply not enough,” the judge said in his ruling. Taylor Swift shakes off copyright lawsuit over hit song 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Breakup truism: “You had your chance, you blew it.” 12 Breakup Videos Better Than 'Get Her Back' by Robin Thicke 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, that truism isn't stopping a new wave of comedy pundits from suggesting that with the election of Joe Biden, U.S. political satire is now on its way to being truly dead. Is political comedy dead now? 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z The Kobe Bryant story was an especially bad example of that truism. Perspective | Media coverage of Kobe Bryant’s death was a chaotic mess, but there were moments of grace 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z Breakup truism: “I never should’ve let you go. I didn’t know nothing; I was stupid; I was foolish; I was lying to myself.” 12 Breakup Videos Better Than 'Get Her Back' by Robin Thicke 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Its old metal bars evoke a William Faulkner truism: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” From a slave house to a prison cell: The history of Angola Plantation 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z A truism about American movies is that when they want to say something about the United States — something grand or profound or meaningful — they typically pull their punches. ‘Stillwater’ Review: Another American Tragedy 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z They’re betting a third Washington truism will also hold: There’s always enough chum in the water for a hungry fish to get a meal. Trump got evicted from ‘the swamp.’ Some of his people are trying to stick around. 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z It's just a truism that it happens, often without warning, rhyme or reason. Tracks of our tears: the songs that make G2 writers weep 2011-04-08T07:00:02Z A much less elegant truism can be traced back to hokey versifier Edgar A. Guest: “It takes a heap o’ livin’ in a house t’ make it home.” Review | ‘Lives of Houses’ is a lovely book to savor while you’re stuck at home 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z It’s a truism that history is shaped by those in power, who get to tell the story. ‘The Routes of Slavery’ traces a musical journey of resilience in the face of inhumanity 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Out of context it contains a lot of truisms, and I identified with the pressure to pretend to be someone else at the beginning of a relationship. Is Gone Girl Feminist or Misogynist? 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z And yet planting this truism in America’s consciousness has proved such a thorny challenge that a whole new labor movement has been spawned to drive it home. Arts workers are building a labor movement to save a creative economy in peril 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z It’s a reminder that the history of cinema is also a history of male directors working with superb actresses, a truism borne out in “Aquarius,” from the Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho. Cannes Keeps Its Traditions, Including Its Boos 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z In doing so, they've paired the truism concerning love being blind with the notion that losing one sense heightens the others. On "Sexy Beasts," love isn't quite blind – but it's an entertainingly shallow heavy petting zoo 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Young’s energy never flags, but he piles on the truisms. Books of The Times: ?The Grey Album? by Kevin Young 2012-03-15T21:50:21Z It's a disturbing realisation of the truism that as music lessons are hived off from state subsidy, musical participation, in central Beds at least, really is becoming a badge of economic elitism and privilege. Music education cuts in Bedfordshire show what's at stake nationwide 2011-03-24T14:45:25Z That’s the question explored by “Images of Value,” an exhibition at the Grolier Club in Manhattan devoted to the underpondered truism that financial art, like the bills it is printed on, doesn’t grow on trees. The Secret Art History on Your Money 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z If there is one truism about each city’s hunt for a replacement, it’s this: San Francisco — flush with tech wealth and progressive values — seems ready for change. Is the era of the white male food critic coming to an end? 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z It may be a truism that this country lost more buildings to town planners than to the Luftwaffe, but it is still worth mentioning. Britain's Lost Cities: a Chronicle of Architectural Destruction by Gavin Stamp 2010-05-14T23:39:00Z Putting aside the discomfort, as a topic, the mother-daughter relationship is overly familiar; truisms abound. Michelle Orange Tackles a Writerly Taboo: Her Mother 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z There's a truism, at least in the United States, that every person has one novel in him. Jonathan Franzen: the path to Freedom 2012-05-25T21:55:12Z It has become a truism that Pakistan is one of the most dangerous and volatile countries in the world. Unreported World 2010-04-09T05:45:00Z In “Never Rarely,” the hurdles to an abortion are as legion as they are maddening and pedestrian, a blunt political truism that Hittman brilliantly connects to women’s fight for emancipation. ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’ Review: A Woman’s Heroic Journey 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z This is, I’m fairly certain, our only Christmas truism. How I found Christmas again in Grandma Ruth's peanut butter balls 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z That’s to be expected, too: rock music exploits heightened emotion and truisms that can fit neatly into a memorable chorus. | 'American Idiot': A Musical Inspired by a Green Day Album Opens 2010-04-21T03:16:00Z Well, there’s a psychological truism in the world of S/M that holds that the person who’s being spanked or tied up or whatever is actually the person in control of the situation. My mentally ill sister 2012-06-02T00:00:00Z Prison underlines a truism: Good people can do bad things. A Filmmaker Put Away for Tax Fraud Takes Us Inside a British Prison 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z This is a truism and a cliché, of course, but it’s one that we usually apply to what the experience of actually being in a war is like. “What happens to the people left behind?”: Rory Kennedy on her Oscar-nominated “Last Days in Vietnam” 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z It’s a truism of modern dating that no one knows what they are doing anymore. Guide to online dating behaviours 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z One of the great rock `n' roll truisms is that most groups break up. The Civil Wars release new album despite hiatus 2013-07-08T18:02:41Z Inherent to most good standup is the ability to find and express the universal truisms in personal experiences, and Jay has this ability. Sam Jay brings her raw "SNL" comedy to Netflix for "3 in the Morning" 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z It is a truism to say that history is written by the victors. Perspective | I returned to the National Gallery seeking comfort. But art no longer feels like an escape. 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z The tired truism that classical music is a universal language gets trotted out, like a dusty diplomatic ritual, for such occasions. ‘There’s still high culture in America’: Why the National Symphony Orchestra went to Moscow 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z It's a message that takes a while to sink in, but the triumph of both Twain's book and this musical is the clear enunciation of that truism. Talented voices, scenic sets make Village's 'Big River' a pleasant trip 2012-10-01T19:35:05Z The truism that friends are the family you choose may be more accurate than you might suppose. If your friends feel like family, there's a good reason for it 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z It's almost as if the central argument of this piece is "auteurs: they don't make 'em like they used to," a reductive and juvenile attempt at a truism that bears little understanding of film history. 2009-12-31T20:21:00Z “I strongly suspect that his ‘magical powers’ were nothing more or less than the ability to utter basic truisms to the right person at the right time,” Bugliosi argues. The famous Manson true crime book, 'Helter Skelter,' reviewed in 1974 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z It's a truism to say that all costume drama is a product of its time, but in its new BBC incarnation Upstairs Downstairs was frustratingly hobbled by politically correct anachronisms. Rewind TV: Upstairs Downstairs; When Harvey Met Bob; Michael Jackson's Secret Hollywood; Toast 2011-01-02T00:04:01Z If nothing else, the reported allegations do back up one apparent truism: Charlie Sheen's camp: Allegation of knife attack on dentist 'fabricated' 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Bitter Marginalia Defines Two Lives It is a truism that academic arguments are so passionate because the stakes are so small. Movie Review: ?Footnote,? a Satire and Family Drama by Joseph Cedar 2012-03-08T17:16:01Z Contrary to the truism that holds that all first novels are autobiographical, Sweeney says that nothing apart from scenes set in New York is taken from her real life. Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney reflects on family, her midlife turn to fiction and the bidding war over her first novel, 'The Nest' 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z It’s a truism, though, that New Yorker cartoons are meant to induce knowing chortles rather than guffaws. Review: ‘Very Semi-Serious,’ the World of New Yorker Cartoons 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z The ultimate truism in our understanding of vacation romance is that it’s exciting because we don’t see our new lover’s flaws. Modern Love: Romance, the Ultimate Souvenir 2012-09-07T00:15:52Z Slater, a former Wall Street Journal reporter and current FastCompany contributor, repackages those banal truisms as vaguely alarming yet exciting developments. What does OKCupid want? 2013-02-16T17:00:00Z It’s a truism of TV that dialogue drives the medium: budgets and schedules being what they are, even a visually dramatic show has to lean a lot on conversation. Justified Watch: All Talk, All Action 2013-03-20T12:00:29Z In that case the movie should have brought some definition, uniqueness, to Doug. One adult tells him, “You’re a walking cliché,” but Chase doesn’t feel obliged to bring the truism to pulsing life. David Chase's Not Fade Away: The Sopranos Sing the '60s 2012-10-05T23:52:58Z So they have issues, and it brings to mind the truism that you can deeply hate only the people you once liked. ‘Better Call Saul’: There Will Be (Way More) Blood 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z There’s a truism about home-schooling in an urban context that holds somewhat true, which is that the term is a misnomer: It mostly doesn’t happen at home and mostly doesn’t look like school. Home-schooling: You’re doing it too! 2013-09-14T18:00:00Z At first, they reach for comforting truisms: It was a long time ago, and decades of steady marital happiness surely outweigh a few months of tragic romance. Review: In ‘45 Years,’ a Dead Flame Threatens a Marriage 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Since then, it seems, he has been experimenting with that truism that you spend the first 40 years of your life escaping from home and the next 40 trying to return. Tricky: 'I can still be really dark in my mind' 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z This is true; so true that it’s a truism. In Jenny Offill’s ‘Weather,’ Paranoia Is Delivered With Humor 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z You call it a truism that “a traveler’s writings say more about the traveler than about the place traveled to.” ArtsBeat: Pollution Tourism: Andrew Blackwell On Visiting the World's Not-So-Hot Spots 2012-05-23T17:35:41Z So begins Treslove's project to prove himself more Jewish than the Jews – an enterprise which takes him into various cultural truisms, from humour to food to circumcision. Howard Jacobson's Booker prize win is long overdue 2010-10-12T21:38:00Z For the perfumiers present at the launch, this is already a truism. Penning Perfumes: when scent and poetry mix 2012-06-14T15:49:53Z “With Their Bare Hands” supports a military truism that going into battle without allies can be difficult, but going into battle with allies can be even more difficult. 'With Their Bare Hands' tracks America's ascension to military power during WWI 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z Up above, a beautiful egomaniac was proving that he still understood pop’s most basic truism: Music only really exists in the bodies and minds of those listening to it. Kanye West will not come down 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z The joke that “politics is show business for ugly people” became a truism with the advent of 24/7 cable news, on which even the most obscure congressmen turned into rumpled, badly coifed stars. Perspective | The Trump cult has obliterated the line between citizenship and fandom, with deadly results 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z In “Monumental,” that truism is illustrated by this Canadian dance company, whose members thrash about and cavort in black-and-white work attire, channeling both cogs in the capitalist machine and animals trying to escape their cage. Dance Listings for Sept. 16-22 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z It is a long-held truism that, as far as social change goes, film is a lagging indicator. At a notably relevant Golden Globes, the film world is seen struggling to keep pace 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z It is a truism of modern life that despite fast and cheap communication technologies, demoralizing alienation is as widespread as ever in the developed world. Cao Fei Captures Modern Malaise in a Series of Inventive Videos 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I was 16 years old, and I wanted a truism about cutting through the lies and all that. When Bowie met Burroughs 2013-03-09T09:01:00Z There’s nothing profound going on here; the truisms don’t blossom into life-enriching truths. Think Like a Man: Men and Women Behaving Bedly 2012-04-19T17:07:29Z He racks up more miles in “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One,” the seventh entry in a 27-year-old-franchise that repeatedly affirms a movie truism. ‘Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One’ Review: Still Running 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z Photograph: Patrick Ford/ Redferns It is a truism that being in a band is both cool and exciting. Bedsit Disco Queen by Tracey Thorn – review 2013-02-10T08:00:01Z Stagings often accept this binary as a truism of the piece; audiences chuckle at jokes written at women’s expense. Review: Pulling Back the Curtain on ‘The Magic Flute’ at the Met 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z It's a dull but inescapable truism that sketch shows are hit and miss, but these guys are more likely than most to serve up an original, thought-provoking and properly funny hour of comedy. This week's new comedy 2010-08-13T23:06:00Z From all this chaos, though, one truism about popularity apparently survives: If something is popular, it can’t also be good. What Was, Is and Will Be Popular 2013-09-06T22:52:30Z Maybe the truism here is that in bad times, we don’t have the usual ways to lie to ourselves. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Some boyfriends you quarantine with, others you quarantine from 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z At this point it has become a truism to describe Trump as a candidate molded by reality TV, but that doesn’t make it untrue. Ryan Lochte, Donald Trump and the steep decline of American democracy 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z In a way, I think, in terms of wisdom, the most banal truisms are the most useful: "do the right thing", "whatever works", stuff like that. David Shrigley: 'More than anything else, I need to laugh at things' 2012-09-29T23:05:12Z Breakup truism: “Guess what? I’m having more fun now that we’re done.” 12 Breakup Videos Better Than 'Get Her Back' by Robin Thicke 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z As addiction experts are keen to remind us, there isn’t “one size fits all” treatment to cure patients – something of a truism within the addiction field. Baclofen: the controversial pill that could 'cure' alcoholism 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z It's a critical truism to say that the best horror movies rely on a slow, ambiguous buildup, and scare you more with suspense and atmosphere rather than shocks or gore. "Insidious": "Saw" creators go back to horror basics 2011-03-30T19:45:00Z "I strongly suspect that his 'magical powers' were nothing more or less than the ability to utter basic truisms to the right person at the right time," Bugliosi argues. 'Helter Skelter' by Vincent Bugliosi: Read the 1974 L.A. Times book review 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z One of the truisms of satire is that it isn't interested in balance or covering "both sides" of an issue. Is political comedy dead now? 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z And it did far beyond expectations, disproving a couple of country truisms along the way. Pistol Annies believe it's time to 'Annie Up' 2013-05-09T17:17:08Z As you might expect, condemnation flew at NBC Universal from all sides, with one refrain being repeated across social media as if it were a truism: “This isn’t reality television, this is the Olympics.” Reality or “Reality”?: Should NBC’s Olympics Coverage Be More Straightforward? 2012-08-08T12:00:20Z Only a few years ago, the apparent truism that women had to be winsome or sympathetic to sell films was still holding strong. This Year’s Oscars Belong to Strong Women in Fierce Roles 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z But just when things get comfortable, in drops Jay Electronica, hip-hop metaphysician, with some confidently delivered and unusually phrased truisms: “Reality is kinda hard to face/Like actual facts is to flat-earthers.” The Playlist: Justin Bieber Boosts a Friend, and 14 More New Songs 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z To say that books about death are morbid may seem a truism, but of course, most books are about death. ‘The Good Death,’ ‘When Breath Becomes Air’ and More 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z I’ve taught it to writing students numerous times since it was first published in The New Yorker in 2018, in an attempt to disprove truisms about “rising action” and characters “needing to change.” Stories That Render America Just Strange Enough to Recognize 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z That's quite a list and I'm not even sure it's comprehensive, but it illustrates a truism in independent film financing: the tougher the sell, the greater the number of investors. How The King's Speech got an outside edge at the Oscars 2011-03-01T14:41:18Z It’s a truism that complicates his sweeping testimonial to the virtues of irreverence. Daniel Sloss’s “X,” a Laddish Comic’s Reckoning with #MeToo 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Breakup truism: “I decided we weren’t going to speak, so why are we up 3 am on the phone? What she be so mad at me for? Homie, I don’t know she’s hot and cold.” 12 Breakup Videos Better Than 'Get Her Back' by Robin Thicke 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Breakup truism: “You thought I’d be weak without you, but I’m stronger. You thought that I’d be broke without you, but I’m richer. You thought that I’d be sad without you, I laugh harder.” 12 Breakup Videos Better Than 'Get Her Back' by Robin Thicke 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z There’s such comedy in that question – “How do we be better to men?” – but it’s also a truism, and an urgent one at that. Jena Friedman: the outrageous talkshow host women have been waiting for 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Jenny Holzer’s “truisms” have appeared on billboards, posters and LED displays. | Jenny Holzer Takes On South Africa 2010-06-15T19:15:00Z But throughout “Pageant Material,” Musgraves hews so tightly to this theme, she might as well be stitching sassy truisms onto throw pillows. Is Kacey Musgraves singing all this ‘be yourself’ stuff into the mirror? 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Lastly, there is a rare exception to the truism mentioned at the start of this section – you know, the thing we said about a famous actor's participation not being indicative of a movie's quality. We scouted "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves" and can confirm that it's a true treasure 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Complex Geometry and Sinuous Moves The idea that ballet is like a cult is a truism. Dance Review: Jillian Peña’s ‘Guiding Light’ at Chocolate Factory 2012-12-09T22:58:27Z There are two truisms about local politics: Everyone complains but not everyone votes. Fill out that ballot and help determine our collective future | Editorial 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z This is a truism that has led NIMBYs to file an untold number of frivolous lawsuits up and down the state of California. Column: What a refusal to study turning a freeway into housing says about L.A.'s future 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z Koppelman: One thing we discovered as we were going is that there was a truism about them early on — each of them had reason to be revealed onto themselves, and to not lie to themselves. 'Billions' creators discuss how the finale was fueled by backstabbing and Blind Faith's music 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z The hoary old myth that there's no such thing as bad publicity has hardened into a truism in some liberal circles. Trump seethes at Fox News for limiting his on-air time — but the network is doing him a favor 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z A truism that bears repeating is that there is only one economy: the global economy. How do we manage China’s decline? | Bret Stephens 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z “It’s a truism that anytime someone is being persecuted, their camp rallies to their defense,” he said. For the GOP in WA, the point is to flip off the libs 2023-08-05T04:00:00Z Still, the catchphrase has trickled down as a historical truism. What is a man? Even Darwin rejected the myth of the “alpha male” 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z An established truism regarding voters’ opinions about the economy is that they lag well behind reality, especially when the reality is a recovery from a slump. Column: Bidenomics has been a boon for working class voters. Why don't they give him credit? 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z Three Hollywood truisms: First, show business is not an altruistic endeavor; it is a money-making enterprise for everyone involved. Opinion: Streaming is TV's future. Can the writers' strike get executives to pay accordingly? 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z Smith epitomises the age-old cricket truism - it's not how, but how many. 'Welcome to my life' - Smith reaches 100 Tests 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z It’s long been a truism that attitudes about crime and punishment are cyclical, characterized by pendulum swings of leniency followed by a desire to crack down and lock up everybody indefinitely. Opinion: What happened to criminal justice reform? 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z As long as I can remember, it's been a truism that America is an extremely pious country and great deference must be paid to traditional Christian values. DeSantis' deal with the devil: Chasing the Christian right won't help him 2023-05-19T04:00:00Z To invert a truism, the political is personal. I’m a Couples Therapist. Something New Is Happening in Relationships. 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z As the truism goes, "If it bleeds it leads." Trump's CNN town hall was a failure 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z A truism in Taiwan is that the simplified character for love is stripped of its heart, since the only difference is the absence of the “heart” component. Mandarin classes are a new battleground between China and Taiwan 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z “A very simple truism of research is previous behavior is the best predictor for future performance,” Smith said. New Netflix data shows diversity gains, but does not factor recent job cuts 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Of course, it’s one of the truisms of Hollywood life that audiences often confuse an actor with the character he or she depicts on-screen. After childhood fame — and decades of infamy — Danny Bonaduce finds success and sobriety in Seattle 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z When pondering disappointing choices people make that let you down, I think it helps to accept this simple truism. Advice | Ask Amy: My partner went on vacation during my cancer treatment 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z It's become a truism in recent years that the one thing all Americans agree on is a love for Dolly Parton. "They banned Dolly": Republicans want the dumbest parent at the school to control the curriculum 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z The baseball truism of bullpens being fickle and volatile from year to year keeps getting confounded by the Mariners, and they’ll try to make it three outstanding years in a row. Mariners are only team not to make World Series. Does that change this year? 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z As the truism observes, bad habits die hard. Donald Trump makes Ron DeSantis so much more dangerous 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z One of Gilman’s truisms is that a play like “Hamlet” isn’t paraphrase-able. Commentary: Richard Gilman, the complicated subject of a new memoir, helped raise the bar for theater criticism 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z It is a truism that time seems to expand or contract depending on our circumstances: In a state of terror, seconds can stretch. Heartbeat May Shape Our Perception of Time, Study Shows 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z And it’s a truism in state legislatures that nothing is ever officially dead until the last gavel falls. WA Legislature forges ahead on assault weapons ban, new drug law 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Second, Carter’s troubles reaffirmed an ancient political truism: In an election year, the economy — especially inflation — trumps every other issue. Column: Jimmy Carter's presidency looks better now than in 1980. Is there a lesson for Joe Biden? 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z Such a decision signals to one of the many paradoxes of the global color line: as the truism goes, "everybody wants to be black, but nobody wants to be black." Sentencing of the Buffalo shooter: Black people don't have to forgive white supremacists 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z A D.C. truism: When it comes to finger-pointing, our leaders have no peers. Opinion | A comedy of errors in D.C., except there’s nothing funny about it 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z It is a truism that the first casualty of war is the truth. Media spin and politicians' lies are fueling a bloody war of attrition in Ukraine 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z If there’s an enduring truism about corporate promises to do well by doing good, it’s that believing them is a mug’s game. Column: Big oil companies are already reneging on their global warming goals 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z A new public opinion poll from the Washington Post and ABC News puts that truism in stark relief: Public grows tired of both Biden and Trump — leaving room for fascism 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z This truism apparently escaped the notice of the National Hockey League, which turned 105 in November. Column: A cowardly NHL bows down to a bullying DeSantis 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z Elsewhere, he rattles off truisms about Chinese people eating rice and wanting to surpass their parents’ expectations. Review | How much does our food tell us about who we are? 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z The childhood truism that the fairest way to split anything is 50-50 simply doesn’t hold when it comes to balancing a household budget. A tip for unmarried couples: Romance has a bottom line 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z But there is another truism that to my mind often countervails: We are always fighting the last war. How will history remember Jan. 6? 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z As the truism holds, power concedes nothing without a demand. A new day? Voters stood up for democracy — and now we have the data 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Bush drew from sports to invoke the “Big Mo” that Iowa imparted, now a campaign truism. Iowa Democrats Ask: Without the First-in-the-Nation Caucuses, Who Are We, Really? 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Mind you, that doesn’t ensure he’ll stay that long, because another truism of the coaching world is that if another school wants you badly enough, they’ll find a way to make it happen. Amid successful debut season, UW’s Kalen DeBoer acting like he wants to stick around 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z It is a political truism that voters' memories are short, and apparently this extends even to attempts to overthrow democracy itself. For Democrats, it was the Dunkirk election: They escaped disaster, but the road ahead is hard 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z It used to be a truism that no elected office-holders would dare to tamper with Social Security if they wished to keep their jobs. Column: GOP promises to gut your Social Security, Medicare if they take power 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z To be important to others—to matter—has become more than just a truism. Do You ‘Matter’ to Others? The Answer Could Predict Your Mental Health 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z It has long been a truism that if you want to know how people feel about a government and its policies, just open the borders. Opinion | What we can learn from the people who are voting with their feet 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z Much - too much, really - has been read into what one biographer calls the "truism" that she got on better with Labour leaders than their Conservative counterparts. Death of Queen Elizabeth II: The moment history stops 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z The entreaty from Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign, “It’s the economy, stupid,” has become a truism in American politics, in good times and in bad. Four takeaways from Biden’s speech in Philadelphia. 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z These are broad strokes, of course, but as a former editor at the bygone magazine American Demographics, which specialized in generational generalizations, I believe there’s some truth in the truisms. Gen X is kind of, sort of, not really the boss 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Nuclear physics is a classic example of the truism that applications of technology can be good or evil, but knowledge itself is neither. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z What he got wrong can be summed up with the truism “correlation does not imply causation.” How the Inside of a Black Hole Is Secretly on the Outside 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z The courts have generally read the Tenth Amendment as merely stating, as Chief Justice Harlan Stone put it, a “truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.” American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z Warren, a former Minnesota Vikings executive, said some of the strategies and truisms he learned in the NFL are reflected in this agreement. Big Ten reaches seven-year TV deal worth nearly $8 billion after adding UCLA, USC 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z As we look ahead, it may be helpful to remember the truism that courage is not the absence of fear but the strength to persist and do the right thing despite it. U.S. v. Donald Trump: What comes after FBI raid? I know one thing: Be afraid 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z As the truism goes, both in sports and war, the other team definitely has a say in the outcome. GOP fascism rises, despite Kansas vote 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z The Mariners’ addition of a top-flight pitcher rather than an offensive destroyer to the roster brings to mind a moldy baseball truism: Good pitching beats good hitting every time. Times readers expound on M’s, Griner, Russell 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z Much of modern art was an attempt to escape this truism — to make pictures that don’t depict anything and are therefore singular, unrepeatable. Review | All-star show at National Gallery of Art doubles down on identity 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Since the world was first seized by the public health catastrophe more than two years ago, it has been a truism that the ultimate threat to the economy is the pandemic itself. The World Economy Is Imperiled by a Force Hiding in Plain Sight 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z But one of El Greco’s most beloved paintings, “View of Toledo” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, allows us to set aside all the tedious truisms about the artist. Perspective | Heaven on a hilltop But Alito’s leap from that truism to the conclusion that the right to abortion merits no constitutional protection rests on an embarrassing flaw in legal reasoning. Column: A terrible, horrible, no good, very bad Supreme Court decision 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z The truism about "reach and grasp" is apt here, if insufficient: Biden almost literally has the solutions in his hand, but chooses not to grip them firmly. Biden's missed opportunity in Buffalo: He needs to tell white people the truth 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z And of course, there is the truism, and wisdom, that it is not fighting that wins war, but logistics. Has Russia been beaten? This military expert says that moment is coming soon 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z One of life’s truisms is that some things are better left unsaid. Financial advice from the things that aren’t said 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z Ms. Kaptur’s longevity was supposed to underscore a truism that union families knew their friends and would not abandon them. Labor’s Disenchantment in Ohio Puts Even Democratic Veterans at Risk 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z I think a truism in neuroscience is that the thoughts that come out of the human brain are not as complicated as the machine that generates them. Mapping the Brain to Understand the Mind 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Great players don’t often make great coaches, and that’s a truism for every sport. Perspective | Dawn Staley was a great player. She might be an even better coach. 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z There are two truisms about Seattle made apparent by the bridge closure. The saga of the West Seattle Bridge: This is how we roll … or not 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z At the same time, its spirited hero poignantly demonstrates a seemingly trite but time-tested truism: Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home. Review | A 16-year-old boy dreams of space and home in the soaring ‘Gagarine’ 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z What you drive — economy car or proverbial gas guzzler — doesn’t change the truism that no one likes paying more at the pump. Higher inflation is not going to break you 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z Others she did not, like being forced to watch from the outside as the totems and truisms of the game shifted, seeming to leave her behind. Ada Hegerberg Wants to See How Good She Can Be 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z Most people have heard the most famous truisms about armed conflict. Putin's endgame: Will it be stalemate, nuclear war — or regime change in Moscow? 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z While the truism is that experience matters greatly at the Masters, it is also worth remembering that Will Zalatoris, 25, finished second at last year’s Masters. Older Players on the PGA Tour Are Looking Over Their Shoulders 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z “Life comes at you fast” is one of those social media-age truisms that isn’t really true. Carmen Canedo is writing songs at life-speed 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z It’s one of those truisms that is so much easier said than done, but in Segura’s case, at this point in his singular career, it is most certainly true. The queer Latina superhero noir novel Alex Segura had to write 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z Here the supposed truisms are laundered and flat-ironed as common sense. NATO leaves little room for diplomacy: How the war machine upped the ante in Ukraine 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Those truisms are playing out in real time in Russia's war against Ukraine. Putin's endgame: Will it be stalemate, nuclear war — or regime change in Moscow? 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z One of the truisms of Hollywood longevity is that a filmmaker’s greatest successes can become a mixed blessing, spawning toxic fan movements and inferior imitations, and sometimes boxing their creators into an unforgiving mold. Appreciation: Ivan Reitman was the genial maestro of American movie comedy 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Human connection, particularly this time of year, is often reduced to marketable truisms. Perspective | For this Surrealist art couple, love was an alien landscape 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z “It’s a Christian truism that you can hold seemingly contradictory views. Christian moral teaching isn’t black and white.” The threat to Roe v. Wade is driving a religious movement for reproductive choice 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z This narrator knows her own mind, trusts her own judgment, and often dispenses her opinions as truisms. Review | In ‘Vladimir,’ a woman’s desire takes her to dangerous places 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z There's a truism of conventional wisdom, broadly accepted on both sides of the Atlantic, that British and American politics since World War II have run in rough parallel. So what the hell happened to Boris Johnson — and can it happen to Donald Trump? 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z There is a truism in Tory circles that challengers wreck their prospects through open disloyalty. As Johnson Reels From Scandals, Is Someone Plotting to Take His Place? 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z "Don't listen to what people say, look at what they do" is another truism we can apply to inform us about today's politics. What do Democrats and Republicans actually believe in 2022? That should decide the midterms 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z I think about the truism that "history is prologue." Fascism in America: It's nowhere near as new as you might think 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z That is because it is a truism that people adore hearing their own names — except that, like many truisms, it is not always true. Perspective | Miss Manners: My son’s girlfriend took a video in my home without my permission 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z The idea that movies run on empathy — a key insight of the great film critic Roger Ebert — is by now something of a truism. Hollywood Still Matters. These Actors Showed Why. 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z Though it is a truism in biology that most mutations are detrimental, once in a while a mutation comes along that helps a biological agent survive. The omicron variant is spreading rapidly — but doctors note cases so far are not severe 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z “There’s the truism that your opening number establishes the rules of the story and the relationship to the audience,” said Miranda. How Lin-Manuel Miranda made a one-man show into a Hollywood spectacle 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z There’s this age-old truism, like, “Great leadership is hiring people and giving them operating room and” — I’m going to use the word pejoratively — “empowering them to do their jobs.” Why the future of work is the future of travel, with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z It is a truism that the older people get, the more they reminisce about the events that took place in the past, sometimes very long ago. 4 ways that older people can bolster or improve their mental health 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z As the truism goes, no one hates like family. In the coming second American Civil War, which side are you on? 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z The adage of sports being a business is a truism. Kyle Lowry Is Having His Say, On and Off the Court 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z But then he shared a truism that countless people who have had children learned the hard way, and one that very few men in power have talked about. Pete Buttigieg Joins the Parental Leave Debate: ‘This Is Work.’ 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z It’s a time-honored truism of football that everyone loves the backup quarterback. Seahawks QB Geno Smith’s story is an underdog tale. And we can all get behind that 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Hollywood, like many industries, prides itself on the truism that anyone lucky enough to work in its hallowed halls needs to “pay their dues.” With the IATSE strike vote, film and TV crews are saying what is on a lot of other workers' minds 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z In boxing and other combat sports there is the truism that "styles make fights." Democrats have the GOP playbook: They know how to fight back, but just won't do it 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z That’s a widely accepted truism at the Ryder Cup, which feels more like a football game than a traditional golf tournament. It's tee time: Ryder Cup brings butterflies to players, patriotism to fans 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z This truism explains why the political class is so fond of martial rhetoric, waging “war” on poverty, drugs, cancer, terrorism, climate change, covid-19, etc. Opinion | Presidential impatience with covid doesn’t excuse wielding extra-constitutional power 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z This communal effect is both a truism — tragedy brings people together — and an awful irony. It's been 20 years. Long enough to name the most memorable novel about Sept. 11 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z We’ve accepted the idea that form must follow function but that truism doesn’t apply to clothing, not really. Fashion follows function: what’s next for the phone industry 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z It's a truism in Beltway media that Roberts is an "institutionalist" who values preserving the Supreme Court's integrity over his far-right views. The "soft" overturn of Roe v. Wade exposes how far-right John Roberts has let the Supreme Court go 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z It’s a political truism that crisis equals opportunity. As a child, he snuck onto a secret Malibu beach. 50 years later, the fence finally came down 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z If you’re looking to test the truism that writers choose fiction because no one would ever believe the truth, consider New Orleans. Review: A symphonic new story collection plays variations on New Orleans in all its masquerades 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z It is a truism of political biography that golf affords a window into both style and soul. Tap Dancing With Trump: Lindsey Graham’s Quest for Relevance 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z He has rejected the notion that women confront a “glass ceiling” in attempts at career advancement and embraced the libertarian truism that citizens have become too reliant on an overbearing government. Larry Elder's outspoken conservative radio rhetoric under scrutiny in recall election 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z A: A medical “truism” holds that nose hair filters the air we breathe and therefore protects us from infection by airborne viruses, bacteria and other pathogens. Is Nose Hair Essential to Fighting Off Colds and Other Viral Illnesses? 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z One decision from the New Deal Supreme Court dismissed the 10th Amendment as a “truism,” aspirationally majestic but devoid of content. Federalism: A cure for what ails the U.S 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z As the truism holds, history is written by the victors. America's history wars get serious: Texas GOP wants to dump MLK, whitewash KKK 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z If the road to hell is indeed paved with good intentions, that truism is especially correct here. Republicans want "18 more months of chaos" — followed by the end of democracy 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z In one of the bizarre truisms of Washington, as divided as Democrats and Republicans may be, the deeper split can often be between rank-and-file members of the House and Senate. One building, two worlds: Bridging stubborn gap in Congress 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z But, as is often the case with truisms, its history may be more venerable than verified. Is Nose Hair Essential to Fighting Off Colds and Other Viral Illnesses? 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z As the truism warns, those who control the past control the future. The Jim Crow Republicans aren't just attacking voting — they want to rewrite history 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z It was another great truism of Wenger’s that soccer was heading for a dearth of central defenders and center forwards, the positions where players needed a particular edge, one that was dulled by institutionalization. Spain Waits, Impatiently, for the Goals to Arrive 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z A corollary to the scientific truism that “nature abhors a vacuum” is that nature tends to fill the void with any garbage near at hand. Column: The lab-leak origin claim for COVID-19 is in the news, but it's still fact-free 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Yet it is a truism that major new infrastructure causes real dislocation and disruption. Opinion | Hogan is backing off his plan to widen the Beltway. Expect more traffic. 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z Brooks spoke a basketball truism: Depth wins games, and the Wizards’ rotational players must step up. Analysis | Russell Westbrook pushed the Wizards into the playoffs. They won’t last long without his best. 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z As the truism observes, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. Fake news, conspiracy theories and a deadly global pandemic — and that was in 1918 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z That truism applies to many things in life, including conversing in a foreign language. 2 language long-haulers keep German skills fresh for travel 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z It's a debased truism of our decaying two-party system: Every moment of political conflict is an apocalypse waiting to happen. America on the knife's edge: Will the next year determine the fate of democracy? 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z He said that, like every controversy, the prize exposed a truism that most of us tend to ignore. The Israel Prize Is Meant to Unify. More Often, It’s Mired in Controversy. 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z In L.A., another secret local truism is that Angelenos of every class and color are actually terribly rebellious and prone to occupying or liberating public space without proper permissions. As L.A. reopens, salsa dances into the orange tier on Venice Beach 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z Each additional layer of defense, however, slows the advance of deceptions that, to appropriate a truism, will otherwise get halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on. How to Debunk Misinformation about COVID, Vaccines and Masks 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z This is a truism of life, but we can’t resist manufacturing false gods. Perspective | The difference between a plantation and college sports: A plantation didn’t pretend 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z It’s the unstoppable cliche meets the immovable truism. Leicester City v Arsenal: Premier League – live! 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z There is a sports truism that survives even in a pandemic, one that can resist any virus and dwell in arenas empty or packed. Perspective | For Maryland and Mark Turgeon, the losses burn. So does the hope. 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z “Form must follow function” is a truism in architecture. The U.S. Needs a Federal Department of Science and Technology 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z “There is a tried and true free market truism that competition makes a better result and a lower cost,” Skaug said. Bill to bypass attorney general’s lawyers advances to House 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z “The Smash-Up’s” political scope can only make out blurry figures beyond the usual truisms about masculinity and white feminism, but for a narrative focused on its characters’ political and personal myopia, these limitations feel appropriate. Review: Edith Wharton in the time of Trump: a new novel reinvents 'Ethan Frome' 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z A truism among epidemiologists is that herd immunity from a more transmissible virus requires a higher percentage of immunized people. Coronavirus mutations add urgency to vaccination effort as experts warn of long battle ahead 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z It is a truism among academics that poetry is foremost an art of the spoken word, but we rarely live up to this ideal. Perspective | What made Amanda Gorman's poem so much better than other inaugural verse 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z If there’s a single all-encompassing truism about American politics, it’s that investing in the right candidate can pay a handsome dividend. Column: These 63 billionaires supported Trump, showing the necessity of a wealth tax 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z These visual slurs underscored a truism noted in the occasional Black-Jewish dialogues that took place during the Trump era: A common foe was re-emerging. Can Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff reinvigorate the Black-Jewish alliance? 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z King, who has been directing television for years, in some ways fulfills the truism that actors-turned-filmmakers tend to bring out the best in their performers, though she notably does this with discipline rather than indulgence. Review: Four legends walk into a motel room in Regina King's superbly acted 'One Night in Miami ... ' 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Tuition increases are out of control, and the realities of the modern job market undercut the old truism that income rises with the accumulation of degrees. Column: Canceling student debt should be a slam dunk. Here's why 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z It is a truism that Supreme Court decisions often reflect the mood of society and cultural norms. Harvard Victory Pushes Admissions Case Toward a More Conservative Supreme Court 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z It is simply a truism that Trump has a legal right to pursue all appropriate election-law remedies to ensure an accurate, lawful vote count. Opinion | John Bolton: Time is running out for Trump — and Republicans who coddle him 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z Ossoff's candidacy exposes the truism that, views on Israel aside, the majority of American Jews support nearly every plank of the Black Lives Matter movement. Can Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff reinvigorate the Black-Jewish alliance? 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z They never understood the truism about political capital articulated by Republican strategist Karl Rove: “If you don’t spend it, it’s not like treasure stuck away at a storehouse someplace. It is perishable. It dwindles away.” US election 2020: Biden to speak as Trump and the supreme court threaten Obamacare – live updates 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z There’s an old truism that insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly, expecting the outcome to change. Editorial Roundup: Idaho 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z The stakes are global, and so was the audience, illustrating the truism that presidential elections in the United States affect everyone, even those ineligible to vote in them. A Transfixed World Awaits What’s Next in America 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z It’s a truism that we’re not a monolith, but that’s a political cliche trotted out under the assumption that Latinos are nevertheless mostly liberal, with only a few regional anomalies. Column: Democrats need to get over the shock — shock, I say! — that Latinos voted for Trump 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z His work, Mark says, is driven by a truism that fuels pundits, politicians and prolific artists alike: “Nobody cares about your opinion unless your opinion is everywhere.” For Absurdly Well’s politically charged street art, inspiration is of-the-moment 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z It is a truism but until Solskjær can disprove it, he will fall short as the club’s manager. Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend's action 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z IT IS a truism that police officers who cause deaths are rarely charged or convicted of a crime, except in the most extraordinary circumstances. Opinion | Finally, an indictment in the killing of Bijan Ghaisar. Will there be accountability? 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z These times are not quite as unprecedented as the truism of our age would have you believe. ‘I miss the buzz of an office. Wearing something cheerful perks me up’: the rise of the domestic goddess 2.0 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z Her sharp timing and fluid blocking aside, King bears out the truism that actors are often especially good directors of other actors. The ups and downs of having the Toronto Film Festival at your fingertips 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z The results reinforce what has become a truism of the pandemic: The fundamental threat to economic livelihood is the virus itself. Europe’s Economic Revival Is Imperiled, Raising the Specter of a Grinding Downturn 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z That truism should be easy for everyone to recognize, given how often Team Denominator and Team Numerator switch sides. Opinion | Rarity does not determine importance. It’s callous to argue that it does. 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z There are truisms, and then there are plain truths. Opinion | Finally, an indictment in the killing of Bijan Ghaisar. Will there be accountability? 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z I suppose the truism about no electioneering before Labor Day was a little bit true, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Election 2020: Turning point for democracy — or horror-movie sequel about an unkillable demon? 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z It's a political truism that a second-term election campaign is a referendum on the incumbent. The 2020 RNC isn't a political convention — it's a celebration of the Trump cult 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z And it is a truism among historians that the relation between science and technology is far more complex and much less linear than people often assume. Democratized Information Is Transforming Society 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z It’s a truism there are no second acts in presidential politics. For Joe Biden, long path to a potentially crucial presidency 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z These books hit the news slant, with characters who put the lie to the truism that we are more connected than ever. How Ali Smith wrote a fast, newsy, transcendent book series during the darkest of timelines 2020-08-12T04:00:00Z Among the various inaccurate things my father told me about American politics was the truism that presidential campaigns began on Labor Day. Election 2020: Turning point for democracy — or horror-movie sequel about an unkillable demon? 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z It’s less a market projection than an investment truism. Trust in the market’s long-term direction: Up 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z It is a truism among scientists that our enterprise benefits humanity because of the technological breakthroughs that follow in discovery's wake. Democratized Information Is Transforming Society 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z Its ability to affix a permanent grin is an automotive truism, including on racetracks, where even well-worn models are wildly popular with budget-minded racers. Going Topless, Turning Heads 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z “I am disappointed in this uninformed tweet by a Senator who I respect. The truisms mixed with errors are rife,” Cuccinelli tweeted at the beginning of a thread. DHS’ Cuccinelli hits Rand Paul for ‘uninformed’ claims on response to Portland riots 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z The surge in sweat-pouring days and sleepless nights is challenging the long-held truism that Lake Michigan is Mother Nature’s air conditioner. Chicago Learned Climate Lessons from Its Deadly 1995 Heat Wave 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z “I think it’s a truism in any city that the police chief has to have the relationships,” said Pat McInerney, a former federal prosecutor and Kansas City police commissioner. Kansas City sharply divided over police chief’s performance 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z It’s a truism that medical advances often flourish in times of crisis. After the pandemic, doctors want their new robot helpers to stay 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z It is a truism that parents and guardians of black athletes whom college coaches are recruiting for football and basketball should be emboldened to appropriate right now: “Don’t Play Where You’re Not Respected.” Perspective | It’s time for black labor in college sports to demand new ground rules 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z It’s a truism of life online that every forum eventually descends into drama, and keeping participants from flaming one another requires constant, even heroic vigilance. Reddit owes its moderators more than an updated hate speech policy 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z It’s a truism of politics: When you’ve got an incumbent on the ballot, the race will be a referendum on her or his leadership — probably more than it’ll be about what the challenger is offering. Both Candidates Are Widely Disliked (Again). This Time, Biden Could Benefit. 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z Rather, it is a truism that those different impacts are due to the different social conditions to which different groups are exposed. The Inflated Promise of Genomic Medicine 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z It’s a historic truism that, due to the market-driven food system and policies, farmers overproduce as a hedge for survival, even while knowing that systemic overproduction will sour the market. Farmers are destroying mountains of food. Here's what to do about it | Christopher Cook 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Philip Kahn liked to say that history repeats itself, a truism that has hit home for his family in extraordinary fashion. Trump Suggests Daily Briefings No Longer Worth His Time as White House Considers Replacing Health Secretary 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z To write about the Midwest is to risk joining a succession of truisms that tread and retread the same ground. Review | What almost everyone gets wrong about the Midwest 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z “You’re never going to apply the test on everybody who is ill and everybody who dies. So without doubt — it’s a truism — the number of deaths are underestimated globally because you don’t apply the test.” Coronavirus death toll: Americans are almost certainly dying of covid-19 but being left out of the official count 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z It’s a truism that ignorant information tends to fill a vacuum. Column: Trump, Musk hyped a possible coronavirus cure. Now we know how dangerous that is 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z One is that it encompasses a truism, which is that investors should divorce their emotional response to the markets from the cold analysis that should underlie investment decisions, if they can. Column: 'Buy when blood is in the streets,' and other maxims from bear markets past 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z Q: One truism of antivirals for acute diseases is that if you start them late, they don't work. ‘We thought she was going to pass away.’ Did an experimental drug help a U.S. coronavirus patient? 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z Donald Trump is living breathing proof of the truism that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Dr. Justin Frank: "On a fundamental level, Donald Trump does not believe in America" 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z These truisms seemed unobjectionable enough until they came into conflict with one another, which happened all the time. Big Swinging Brains and fashy trolls: how the world fell into a clickbait death spiral 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z It’s a truism that living around so many others can make you feel paradoxically lonely, yet there are entirely novel ways of being alone, together. ‘High Maintenance’ and the New TV Fantasy of New York 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z While past presidents had won re-election even in poor economic conditions, Hoover was the case study in a political truism, which holds that a truly bad economy is politically fatal to a sitting president. One-term presidents: Will Donald Trump end up on this ignominious list? 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z It’s a truism that unfortunately appears to transcend industry or geography. Column: A female mayor denounced the harassment she receives. Hours later, a man was arrested at her office 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z What might count as a truism in a democracy instead sank a presidency. Opinion | Donald Trump Is a Hostage to 1979 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z It’s been a lot to swallow for Brown, who has come to discover a truism about being a revolutionary in any human endeavor: Make it far enough, and they come at you from all sides. Ethan Brown went vegan, but missed fast food. So he started a revolution 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z And yet that truism was inverted in October 2019, when a Times trend piece took what was up till then a minor bit of online ephemera and catapulted it into a major cultural phenomenon. A new generational conflict: Will the 2020s be the "OK boomer" decade? 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z “Now all of this is a truism. . . . But you can’t overstate how novel his thinking was.” Neal Peirce, urban affairs columnist who championed inclusive cities, dies at 87 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z Trump’s victory in 2016, despite losing the popular vote, not only made plain these institutional flaws but also made it almost impossible for establishment politicians to repeat the old truisms. This was the decade America’s self-serving myths fell apart | Aziz Rana 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z It’s a truism in corporate finance that cash needs to be either “earning or returning” - that is, being put to use growing the business or getting sent back to shareholders. The Decade of Debt: big deals, bigger risk 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z It’s a truism in a league where the shiny new object that matters most isn’t an individual player or a scheme, but a glistening trophy. Lamar Jackson fever has hit NFL, but Ravens' QB won't change temperature of game 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z It’s an interesting truism that fascists hate satire. 'I don't think he'd get the jokes': why is John Lithgow writing poetry about Donald Trump? 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z “It is a sad truism that most mid-to-small-size agencies are ill-prepared to investigate and deal with an officer-involved shooting,” said Davis, who wrote a book on investigating officer’s use of force. Experts: Silence after Texas police shooting risks mistrust 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z This was one truism about Washington alliances that Mr. Sondland appeared to have fully absorbed. The Strangely Happy Envoy: Sondland Jokes, and Spreads Heat 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z As with past debates, a truism of presidential politics seemed to hold: Combat is the sincerest form of flattery. The Electability Debate, Brought to You by the People Who Want to Be Elected 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z A bizarre truism in cancer is that side effects may bode well. Behind the Scenes of a Radical New Cancer Cure 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z This is becoming so obvious as to be a truism. The right’s use of trolling is so predictable, why do we keep falling for it? | Richard Seymour 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Two truisms may be helpful here, which are overused because they are true: The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend, and not every story has a good guy and a bad guy. Is John Bolton a hero? Hell no — except in the gritty mob-thriller version of the Trump era 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z “Seeing is believing” is no longer a truism. Cinema’s digital impostors are coming 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z The banal truism that ultimately defines Trump’s foreign policy is that actions speak louder than words. Trump’s fake withdrawal from endless war 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z It is a truism of escape plans that the problem with going anywhere is that you take yourself with you. Forget Bali, I found bliss in the blandness of a chain hotel | Emma Brockes 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z It’s a truism that capitalists don’t like competition - especially for workers. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z One truism of the N.F.L. is that the injury rate is 100 percent. Can the N.F.L. Turn a 360-Pound Rugby Player Into a Football Star? 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Charles Koch and his recently deceased brother David are extreme examples of that truism. Welcome to "Kochland": We all live in the brothers' libertarian utopia 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z He is governed not by the truisms of past politics but by the imperative of reality TV: Never de-escalate and never turn the volume down. Opinion | The Real Donald Trump Is a Character on TV 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Messages sent between USC’s athletic and admissions offices underscore a truism in college admissions: money talks. USC officials discussed how much wealthy parents could donate when their children applied, records show 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z It is a truism that whatever starts off hurting immigrants eventually harms us all. Wake up, America: The dream is dead. Not just for "Dreamers," but for all of us 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z It became a new truism, for those of us schooled in No Logo’s worldview, that corporations were becoming more powerful than governments. No Logo at 20: have we lost the battle against the total branding of our lives? 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z Another truism of democratic life is that all political careers end in failure. Stamina, intelligence, ego: which personality traits make the best leaders? 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z And there’s perhaps no greater example of that truism than the tweet sent one year ago today by Tesla CEO Elon Musk. The lesson from Elon Musk’s ‘funding secured’ mess is to never tweet 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z As the truism goes, every generation thinks it invented sex. ‘We’re women with brown skin, talking proudly about sex’ 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z The prosecutor said Manson’s supposed mind-control powers “were nothing more or less than the ability to utter basic truisms to the right person at the right time.” Making sense of the Manson Family Murders — a reading list 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z There may be more disempowering workplace truisms, but that one was definitely down there. 'Rejection didn’t hurt my pride - I had none left': confessions of a failed actor | Rhik Samadder 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z This supposed truism presents a frequent roadblock to a national health-care system. Opinion | What is it we really ‘like’? Our insurance or our health care? 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Unlike many truisms, this one bears repeating—it doesn't mean that each young player that emerged after 1997 could match Tiger's accomplishments, and it doesn't mean they will in the future. The PGA Tour's Youth Revolution is now perpetual - Golf Digest 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z Fant echoes a widely held truism about the military: The Army is good at preparing people to go to war but not so good at returning them to civilian life. Army veteran transforms his life with yoga 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z The experience of Ethiopia under Mr Abiy underlines the old truism that the most vulnerable moment for any authoritarian state is when it starts to reform. Bold reforms expose Ethiopia's ethnic divides 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z But it is a long way from uttering this sad truism to suggesting that it’s O.K. for a Presidential candidate to accept favors from foreign governments. The Stephanopoulos Interview Is Another Fine Mess for Trump 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z And it is truism in politics that it is easier to oppose than propose. Hong Kong's identity as a city of rights and freedom is under threat – so we protest | Antony Dapiran 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z There's a truism that his approach to the game, from his training to his aggression to his pressure play to his media management, set a standard for everyone who came after. The PGA Tour's Youth Revolution is now perpetual - Golf Digest 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z Tariffs are taxes ultimately paid by the consumer, and higher taxes slow economic growth — it’s a truism that Republican politicians have preached for decades. Trump’s bomb aimed at Mexico trade threatens to explode his strongest asset, the economy 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z The old truism — that the best way to avoid a war is to be prepared to fight one — has a special and specific meaning in the scenarios envisioned by the Pentagon’s strategic review. Opinion | Is America preparing for the wrong war? 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z Ultimately, the truism that "the personal is political" remains correct in many ways that are both obvious as well as subtle and unexpected. Neurologist Robert Sapolsky on stress and Donald Trump: Humans are not "inherently rational beings" 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z In American politics the following truisms still apply: "All politics is local"; "A chicken in every pot"; "What have you done for me lately?"; and "Bring home the bacon." Donald Trump: White welfare king and lord of the great grift 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z “It is not a truism anymore that South African elections are essentially a racial census.” In South Africa, a growing number of voters is looking beyond race in this week’s election 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z “I just think this is a classic example of the truism that cops make mistakes. They’re human beings like everyone else and sometimes they get things wrong,” Thygerson told The Hour. Driver beats distracted driving ticket issued while he was eating McDonald's hash brown 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z To say that terrorist attacks depend on security failings is a truism. From 9/11 to Sri Lanka: the terrorists’ deadly message we have failed to grasp 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Ironically, in the abandonment of the attachment to reason, the left forces itself into a position where it appeals to its own folk wisdom and truisms from which it risks never extricating itself. Democracy has a problem with science 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z It is one of football’s great truisms that the league table never lies. Liverpool and Manchester City are both deserving of title-winners’ confetti | Barney Ronay 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z He instead demurred with a bland truism: “Judgments about the nature of the president’s motives during each phase would be informed by the totality of the evidence.” Mueller Rejects View That Presidents Can’t Obstruct Justice 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z Doing political analysis can feel like listing off truisms. Opinion | Democrats should stop chasing Trump’s base. They have their own white working-class voters. 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z What is so compelling about the book, though, is that this longed-for unifying element and these supposed truisms become themselves suspect as the book approaches its terminus. Review: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s latest shows there’s more to Edvard Munch than ‘The Scream’ 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z To a non-philosopher that might sound like a truism, but it contradicts the postmodern contention that words and concepts are all we know. Was Thomas Kuhn Evil? 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z The joke about Mainers confusing flatlanders with complicated directions is rapidly becoming a truism in eastern Massachusetts. Editorials from around New England 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z For Ness, the roots of that rapid aging start with a truism of cancer treatment: While killing cancer cells, chemotherapy and radiation damage many healthy cells, too. Treatments for childhood cancer can devastate lives years later. Scientists are trying to change that 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z His book is littered simultaneously with feminist truisms and overt sexism. Review | A confused critique, or celebration, of sex in Hollywood 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z He then began his desperate answer with a pseudo-profound truism: “Well, times change as it moves forward,” he said. Kevin McCarthy slammed as "spineless coward" over defense of Donald Trump’s national emergency 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z It’s a truism that there’s no row like a poetry row. Generation next: the rise – and rise – of the new poets 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z “It’s become a truism that the wild forms of most of our domesticated crops don’t exist — they can’t be found,” says Wendel. The growth of tea 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z He was classy enough to imply the truism of all sporting events: Mistakes define the game as much as great plays. Perspective | The blown call in Saints-Rams reminded us sports are messy. More replay won’t fix that. 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z Men do leave, and those around them adjust, a truism about life as reliable as that impossible ball in the night sky, seemingly so close and yet so obviously far away. Review: James Franco, Rashida Jones support the moody ‘Don’t Come Back From the Moon’ 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z I wonder why Goldstein, and so many other critics, can’t resist tacking on the truism “aging,” especially when describing female characters. Feedback: From the Golden Globes' hits and misses to 'Mrs. Maisel's' 'stereotypes' 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z Yet it hasn't replaced the truism that families are built on love, not genes. I met my boyfriend 12 years after giving birth to his child 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z This is now a truism, but it took far too long for economic and policy elites to recognize what was happening. Opinion | There is much to fear about nationalism. But liberals need to address it the right way. 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z Until the public — and Congress — accepts this truism, we will struggle with resource shortfalls. Opinion | Does America really need to spend more on defense? 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z “Everybody hates Audrey Moore but the voters” became a truism in county politics. Audrey Moore, Fairfax County supervisor and environmentalist, dies at 89 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z I wonder why Goldstein, and so many other critics, can’t resist tacking on the truism “aging,” especially when describing female characters. Feedback: From the Golden Globes' hits and misses to 'Mrs. Maisel's' 'stereotypes' 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z It’s a truism that the Park City festival is the U.S.’ premiere doc showcase, but in 2018 something like 20 top docs debuted there on the way to theatrical release. Kenneth Turan's best movies of 2018: 'Black Panther' and 'Leave No Trace' top a banner year 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z It is almost a truism in criminal investigations that those who flip early and help prosecutors build their case against higher-ranking figures are shown greater leniency than those who try to gut it out. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z The turmoil sparked by French President Emmanuel Macron’s proposal to boost gas taxes is just the latest example of an emerging political truism. Paris riots show failure of Macron carbon tax with public 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z At a certain level, this is a no-duh elementary school truism akin to saying “look both ways before you cross the street.” Opinion | How Trump is making the world a very dangerous place 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z There are two contradictory truisms about people under the influence of alcohol. Everyone Wants to ‘Influence’ You 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Obama’s voice echoed through the sold-out arena as she dispensed truism after truism about overcoming self-doubt, ignoring insults but admitting the pain, and putting yourself first. At the ‘Becoming’ book tour, you can snag a candle, a onesie and get to know the real Michelle Obama 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z He is not offering a truism of old age. Remembering Walter Mischel, with Love and Procrastination 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z It is a truism that people are more aggressive on Twitter, because they can hide behind personas called “cardigan”. Truly, madly, tweetly: Tanya Gold’s other life online 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z If the bruising battle over Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court cemented one new truism of American politics in the Trump era, it is that Republicans have grown insatiable. Post-Kavanaugh, Republicans have grown insatiable: Sore winners throw salt in women’s wounds 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z One truism of the Trump presidency has been how quickly the story line changes from week to week, or day to day. After Lots of Bluster, Trump Has a Week to Brag About 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z This, of course, is a truism, which does not mean it isn’t true. The pleasures of ambiguity: David L. Ulin on 'Essayism' by Brian Dillon - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z But provincial elections on Monday are threatening the latter truism. Terrebonne: hold-out of Quebec separatism faces end of the dream 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z It is best used for photographs of dogs – that is a very truism – and gags. Truly, madly, tweetly: Tanya Gold’s other life online 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z Six weeks ahead of the election, another truism of boxing applies: upsets are born when long shots stay close into the late rounds. The Ted Cruz–Beto O’Rourke Debate Offers Two Very Different Views of Texas 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z It’s a truism both Mayo and city officials will need to keep in mind as we face an even more challenging future. Excerpts from recent Minnesota editorials 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Behind this truism, there’s a pile of unanswered scientific questions. How does exercise keep your brain young? 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z President Trump is disrupting a foreign policy establishment truism dating to the days of the Marshall Plan. Donald Trump rejects Marshall Plan nation-building, opts for ‘tough love’ foreign policy 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z I’ve been working in and around the news business for exactly 30 years, and the truism used to be that nothing much happened during the summer, except in presidential election years. Another ho-hum summer with Donald Trump: Here are all the “big” stories we wish we could forget 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z Let’s be realistic and center ourselves on a football truism: Running backs do not get better with age. Perspective | As Adrian Peterson chases history, the smart money is on history 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z It’s a political truism that the people get the leaders they deserve. Editorials from around Pennsylvania 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z This time, however, it was the Republican incumbent, not his Democratic challenger, who benefited from that truism. Crystal-ball analysis of Trump 2020 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z It has become a truism that no reputation is enhanced by service in this administration; just ask Rex Tillerson. Opinion | Please, Dan Coats. Don’t resign. 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Then again, fairness is rarely a feature of scandals, a truism he knows better than anyone. A Crisis Management Guru Bungles a Crisis 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z One of the truisms of the profession is that we all sometimes report on things we can’t fully comprehend. Georgia editorial roundup 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z A related truism was also discussed — the absolute appeasement of the mullahs that constantly streams from European capitals. Free Iran Gathering highlights alleged Iranian corruption of European officials 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z It might be a truism in Europe that Brazilian goalkeepers are a little unreliable, prone to over-complication and susceptible to intimidation, but that is not how Brazilian goalkeepers see themselves. An Oxymoron No More: The Great Brazilian Goalkeeper 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z It’s a truism that there is no such thing as a bad Brazil team, and the squad for the competition was still full of fine players. When Costa Rica lowered the colours of Brazil and then some 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z It is not always clear that American leaders accept that truism. With North Korea, diplomacy is our best and only option 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z The old truism holds that everyone is middle-class in America. Why are poor people in America so patriotic? One man went on an odyssey to find out 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z So, given that truism, how do you balance the fact that you only need to win Game 5, 6 or 7 against the reality that losing any playoff game can start awakening “Bad Things.” Perspective | The Caps have more stars than Vegas, and they’ve also been more lucky 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z But, he said, “it is a truism that constitutional protections have costs.” Triple Jeopardy in College Sexual Assault Case Ends an N.F.L. Career 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z Weekend diversions minimize public blowback, a truism that gets an added boost from making the announcement on the brink of a federal holiday. MOCA has lacked an effective director for nearly 20 years. It's time for change 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z But one truism to investing is that past results are no guarantee of future returns, and the big things people expected from Sequoia in 2008 never materialized. Lessons from the falling of fund giant Sequoia 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z |
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