- A
truism is a
claim that is so
obvious or self-evident as to be
hardly worth mentioning,
except as a
reminder or as a
rhetorical or
literary device, and...
-
Jenny Holzer’s
Truisms (1977–1979) are some of her best-known works. The
nearly 300
aphorisms and
slogans utilize a
series of
modern clichés or commonly...
- "Half-
Truism" is a song by the
American punk rock band The Offspring. The song is
featured as the
opening track on the band's
eighth studio album, Rise...
-
Russian armed forces, and
society in general, has been a long-acknowledged
truism. Yılmaz, Müleyke Nurefşan İkbal (31
August 2020). "With its
Light and Dark...
- Mycenae, the
common Aryan roots of the two
peoples became something of a
truism".: 91 The
house Schliemann had had
built in
Panepistimiou Street in Athens...
-
unprecedented milestone for a rock
group and
confirmation of an
obvious truism:
Nobody survives like the world's
greatest rock 'n' roll band. Starting...
- generations. ...
There are, for instance, the
characteristic touches of
truism and anticlimax,
strange in a man who
could both
think and, at his best,...
- A
lapalissade is an
obvious truth—i.e. a
truism or tautology—which
produces a
comical effect. It is
derived from the name
Jacques de la Palice, and the...
-
mainly in the
first person plural, the text
includes generalizations,
truisms, and
platitudes on how to take over the world: take
control of the media...
- it. It is a cliché
formulated and
reformulated throughout the region, a
truism dependent upon the
social experience that
wealth is ****ociated with whiteness...
