If you love beer, these truisms yield a glorious thing.
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Together, these two factors are truisms of U.S. politics, not news.
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It refuses to insist itself upon the viewers with ham-fisted truisms.
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How much should a TV personality receive for dishing graduation-day truisms?
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Political pundits dismissed his bid, many with trite "truisms" about political tradecraft.
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It's folksy truisms like that that had the readers eating out of my hand.
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First Words There are two contradictory truisms about people under the influence of alcohol.
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In his meteoric political career, Trump has upended a succession of political rules and truisms.
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First, some of the reports' suggestions were restatements of what for many economists are truisms.
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Not everyone agrees, however, with the oft-repeated European truisms about the U.S. regulatory environment.
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One of the mathematical truisms underlying Beaver Run is that never shall the two beavers meet.
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When it comes to regulating freight railroad rates and service, there are two truisms to consider.
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And as with so many truisms our media holds dearly, Trump has utterly hijacked this idea.
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Still, one of the oldest market truisms is that buying begets buying and selling begets selling.
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Illustration: Sam Woolley (Gizmodo)An entire industry—with its own spokespeople, podcasts, best-sellers, retreats, truisms, etc.
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In the years since that expansion, memorable events have created a number of truisms about what transpires.
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In private, we hear questions, concerns, and truisms: Why the Whitney, the most progressive of all museums?
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Known for such truisms such as, when asked about global warming, says, oh, it never gets cold.
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" She warps old truisms, like "it takes a village to raise a/ child in nude-colored handy cuffs.
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After all, one of the most deeply held truisms of writing fiction is that you show, don't tell.
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One of the most important truisms of the Trump presidency is that no one gets bigger than the boss.
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"Young people are selfish and impulsive" and "old people hate technology" are truisms that hold true less and less often.
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One of the more blatantly obvious truisms in life is that any sale is better than no sale at all.
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One of the truisms of academic research is that takeovers that increase market share rarely pay off for acquiring companies' shareholders.
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Not surprisingly, this decade has been marked by the intense hostility of the young toward truisms that once governed our thinking.
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As with her "Truisms" series, Holzer's printed proclamations, affirmations, and aphorisms, reproduce the cacophony of opposing voices conveyed through mass media.
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It bore a list of the artist Jenny Holzer's "Truisms," matter-of-fact but edgy-sounding pronouncements printed in plain block letters.
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We won't have told you about the worst of it; most of us will have resorted to adages that are now truisms.
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But peppered into the business announcements, Kanye started dishing out philosophical truisms like this one about the performative nature of human experience.
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Mr. Singh's endurance embodies one of New Yorkers' favorite truisms: that their big, reputedly heartless city is really a collection of small, caring villages.
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So enough of it is available to sustain demand, underscoring one of the truisms of the gem trade: Rarity is a double-edged sword.
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The Democratic message should have stressed the truisms that immigration, LGBTQ, women and other minorities are all components of a vibrant and growing economy.
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One of the truisms of gambling is that it is difficult for a team to be a great bet week in and week out.
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Burns discovered many enduring, sometimes contrary truisms among the country music community, which displays a more prominent sense of family than other musical genres.
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We begin as authors, I think, to take in and accept certain truisms — if not about Writing In General, than about Our Individual Processes.
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One of the truisms of American politics is that, as hapless as the Democrats are, Republicans will eventually overreach and step on a rake.
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This week, Nick still can't stop talking about his past, Chris Harrison can't stop talking in vague truisms, and Corrine can't stop talking about herself.
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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.
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"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.
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They won't just offer you random truisms either, in some cases the experts will tell you what to say in a text and when to send it.
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But this is where the truisms about services on the surface are also, well, true — relying on services can be risky and even be a fatal distraction.
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The majority of the time, their contribution is to roll out a selection of cliches and truisms before going on their way with little gained or learned.
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It has become a truism that America is aging, and like most truisms, it becomes accepted as a ho-hum reality that is too common to address.
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Ms. Holzer has also placed 21 of her stone benches carved with "truisms" (such as "Your oldest fears are your worst ones") in nooks around the buildings.
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It's time for the industry to stop hiding behind carefully crafted reports and statistics that show just part of the picture —myths that are rapidly becoming truisms.
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As a high school senior, Turnbull could have been forgiven for digging in his heels on teen truisms like punk's not dead or—he's Scottish—alba gu bràth.
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Rather, they prefer to express widely-covered truisms of life and love through their music, orchestrating unique sounds to add refreshing vigor and undertones to such lyrical themes.
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That's one of the durable truisms of "Battle of the Sexes," a glib, enjoyable fictionalization of the 1973 exhibition tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs.
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Such pat truisms have a limited utility, especially when we find them applied without alteration to artists as diverse as Chris Ofili, Kerry James Marshall, and Kehinde Wiley.
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Back in 1996, the äda'web site, curated by Benjamin Weil and designed by Vivian Selbo, allowed users to remix Jenny Holzer's excellent (if familiar) Truisms (1978–87) series.
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When truisms about "natural" goodness and the unreliable "mainstream" are at the center of your web, their effect is to modify the basic process of adopting lower-order beliefs.
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Amanda: We want to creatively inspire and challenge societal and industry truisms, while helping create some of the best records from Melbourne and hopefully Australia in years to come.
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Memes imagine a universal experience, and it's so tempting to deal in these flat, blunt "truisms"—their failure to capture reality is also why we're allured by them; they are easy.
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Political prognosticators, White House aides and even Trump's outgoing predecessor would weigh in with a mix of predictions, promises and old truisms, the kinds of assessments that greet every new president.
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Both are comfortable working in the post-regional, trap-influenced, melody-heavy world of contemporary street rap, crafting hits that lean on bars full of straightforward, good-natured truisms and catchy hooks.
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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.
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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.
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The Stone Few would disagree with two age-old truisms: We should strive to shape our lives with reason, and a central prerequisite for the good life is a personal sense of meaning.
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Holzer was not directly involved with REJOICE, which presented selections from the artist's series of early text works, Truisms (22017-2100) and Inflammatory Essays (214-82), from the gallery director Todd Alden's own collection.
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Lots of the truisms of the modern suburb may have originally described Greenwich, Stamford, and the like, which I-95 put within easy reach of New York City and the metropolises of New England.
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There were titles like "Nuthinduan Waltz" and "Rhodeaoh" and "Pathetique," and those songs with lyrics— four out of the 12—contained somewhat abstruse lyrics that seemed more akin to mythological storytelling than confessional truisms.
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He was previously the cofounder and chief technology officer at Nicira, which was acquired by VMware One of the truisms of software business strategy is that services is bad business; heck, we've also said it.
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While Noah, like the rest of the Bulls, may have grown tired of Thibodeau's ceaseless work-first truisms, it's hard to imagine a more symbiotic player-coach relationship than what Jo and Tom had going.
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I guess one could say that it is good for the public to hear yet again about the facts about smoking that were long known by the industry and which are now public health truisms.
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But Arthur's observation is one of those truisms that's so true it just slides off the wall, a message that both the left and the right can get behind and use for their own aims.
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She finds contemporary photography (a flurry of off-putting penis close-ups), timeless truisms (married men aren't available on holidays) and biological complications (painful postmenopausal intercourse, which inadvisedly receives a lengthy musical number, "Gynecologist Tango").
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The midterm result shows that both sides can mobilize their voters and that despite what appears to be a time of intense turmoil, longstanding truisms of American politics – or at least some of them – still apply.
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It was overstuffed with metaphysics, fan service, and sudden random polar bears, and the show struggled most when it tried to answer the big questions of existence with truisms about good and evil, love and hate.
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In the same matter-of-fact way that his lyrics lay out street truisms and offer blunt statements about hyperlocal crew politics, he unspooled his biography and thoughts on music in considerable detail, with little prompting.
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Both the Cavaliers and the Warriors are marvels to behold, often combining the truisms of the game — move without the ball, find the open man, pick and roll, pick and roll — with refreshing audacity and panache.
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On Election Day, Trump did what he had throughout his surreal campaign: exploded the traditional assumptions, upended the usual expectations and forced us to look afresh at the accepted truisms and hoary clichés of our political life.
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Now hardly a day goes by that we aren't rocking one of Holzer's Truisms and a discrete Cowboys logo, and we are regularly confronted by New York Giants and New York Jets fans who think we actually care about football.
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Alden Projects on the Lower East Side has responded to the election of Donald J. Trump by presenting Holzer's Inflammatory Essays, along with Truisms, her series of posters from the same period, more than 100 items in all, in a show called REJOICE!
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Should he run, his every utterance will draw heightened scrutiny from probing critics and opponents who will want to test whether he is a plausible leader worthy of all the hype or simply a modern-day Chance the Gardener, reciting soothing truisms.
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Ms. Holzer has explained in the past that she "used language because I wanted to offer content that people — not necessarily art people — could understand," and she has printed her truisms, as she calls them, on posters, T-shirts and even condom packaging.
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We've repeated this many times here before, but there are a few truisms that can be said for any future iPhone: it will have the fastest processor, the best camera and at least one unique feature you can't get on any other iPhone.
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But the bigger problem is that the pungency of the original story—its off-kilter vision of how fear shreds identity; its insight into social outsiders—has been drained away, sanded over, then renovated with Goop-y self-help truisms about bereavement and healing.
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In cryptic meditations across its disjoined halves, this film confirms two truisms that discerning viewers have known all along: Hong and Kim were sleeping together, and that regardless of (or perhaps in debt to) this, he is a master of frustrating, trenchant melodrama for our generation.
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They dismissed Bloomberg's bid with several trite "truisms" about political tradecraft: Money can't buy the presidency; his late entry would be fatal; he'd fall hopelessly behind by skipping the first four contests; his policy stands are all over the map, so he has no natural following or base.
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In the earliest and most analog of pieces, her "Truisms" (1977–79) and "Inflammatory Essays" (199–82), words become blow darts, aimed indiscriminately at the general public passing by on the street, doubtlessly injecting a bit of adrenalin into the (pretty gritty at the time) urban environment of New York City.
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But in any case, it became impossible to walk the streets of the Lost City of White Male Privilege, feeding your ego by reciting mythological truisms like "We built this country!" when all around you brown men were constantly hammering and nailing, cooking world-class French meals, and repairing your cars.
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It involves indifference to what the market wants and a turning away from the superficial truisms of the day, but it is only in such indifference that there might exist a liberation, a way for us to beat our way through to the stories that escaping refugees and confined prisoners might want us to tell.
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Americans might distrust the C.I.A. and wince when recalling its verdict that Hussein's nuclear, chemical and biological capacity was a "slam dunk," but even Democrats might be seduced by Mossad's reputation and susceptible to Mr. Netanyahu's mishmash of stale reporting, truisms and outright hucksterism, especially given the credibility the current Israeli government enjoys in key constituencies.
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Over 300 pages long, it includes a T-shirt printed with Jenny Holzer's "Truisms" (which he wears in the "Nikes" video); a photo spread of Kanye West picking up McDonald's at a drive-through in a Lamborghini; another photo spread detailing what appear to be the color-use specifications in the studio of the artist Tom Sachs; and what look like internet search histories collected from Mr. Ocean and some of his collaborators.
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Lapalissades, such as "If he were not dead, he would still be alive", are considered to be truisms.
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Dogmatic constraints, tactical stereotypes, schematism in place of originality, and the boring repetition of truisms are contributing factors in creative infecundity.
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When Holzer displayed her Truisms, “she brought her disquieting messages to a new height of subversive social engagement.”Guggenheim, “Untitled (Selections from Truisms, Inflammatory Essays, The Living Series, The Survival Series, Under a Rock, Laments, and Child Text).” Using mass media to exhibit her work, placing her grave texts where everyday advertising is expected, creates a new, large audience for her work: an audience of the general public who would not, under average circumstances, give modern and contemporary art a second thought.Guggenheim, “Untitled (Selections from Truisms, Inflammatory Essays, The Living Series, The Survival Series, Under a Rock, Laments, and Child Text).” She hoped that with their prominent and public location, her Truisms would make people more aware of what she called the “usual baloney they are fed” in daily life.
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Her goal was for people to see them, read them, laugh at them, and be provoked by them.Museum of Modern Art. Jenny Holzer’s Truisms.
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Leibniz called such concepts as mathematical truisms "necessary truths". Another example of such may be the phrase, "what is, is" or "it is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be". Leibniz argues that such truisms are universally assented to (acknowledged by all to be true); this being the case, it must be due to their status as innate ideas. Often there are ideas that are acknowledged as necessarily true but are not universally assented to.
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Jenny Holzer’s Truisms (1977-79) are some of her best-known works. The nearly 300 aphorisms and slogans utilize a series of modern clichés or commonly held truths.Tate Modern, "Jenny Holzer," gallery label.
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Sex received positive reviews. Paste Magazine praised the 1975's "haunting vocals" and described the eponymous single as "full of catchy hooks". Nylon Magazine lauded their "accent-inflected truisms" and the use of guitars in their music.
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7 WTC Detail of 7 WTC installation Jenny Holzer, "Xenon" from The National Security Archive Holzer's initial public works, Truisms (1977–79), are among her best- known. They first appeared as anonymous broadsheets that she printed in black italic script on white paper and wheat-pasted to buildings, walls and fences in and around Manhattan. These one-liners are a distillation of an erudite reading list from the Whitney Independent Study Program, where she was a student.Jenny Holzer, Untitled (Selections from Truisms, Inflammatory Essays, The Living Series, The Survival Series, Under a Rock, Laments, and Child Text) (1989) Guggenheim Collection.
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The sleeper hit grossed $51.2 million in 10 days. It earned a total of internationally. Variety praised the film for its lack of artistic pretension and its clever use of truisms, which makes it stand out among other films of the same genre.
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It has been said that Zubir was viewed by many as a composer with a "true Malay soul", as his songs were interwoven with historical messages and Malay truisms, and that he and his Minangkabau contemporaries awoke a wave of national consciousness in the 1950s.
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Roman De Salvo made light fixtures of industrial materials for walls of the stairwell. Outside the building, Jenny Holzer created a parade of her trademark truisms to be spelled out vertically in light-emitting diodes. The words run through clear plastic tubes that she calls icicles.
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Originally published as The Better Part in A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things, Ernest Howard Crosby described Hubbard's essay as "The best thing Elbert ever wrote." Another book which was written by Hubbard is titled Health and Wealth. It was published in 1908 and includes many short truisms.
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Much of the advice is created from contemporary truisms and thus not need a systematic foundation. The king must govern himself and be governed by law. Much of the advice is a conventional catalog of virtues. The damage to a kingdom which can be inflicted by a wicked leader is discussed in Chapter 7.
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May 28, 2012. Counter calls the writing "vague to the point of frustration" and "teeters between snark and sap." The portions of the book that are memoir-writing, however, are excellent, according to Counter. Michael Sims of The Washington Post said that Burroughs' writing simply borrows pedantic truisms that have been said before in many other self- help books.
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Their conceptions of conservatism, though differing slightly from one another, shared an inclination towards the elevation of a universal moral code within society. In the early 1950s, Dr. Russell Kirk defined the boundaries and resting grounds of conservatism. In his book, "The Conservative Mind", Dr. Kirk wrote six "truisms"Schoenwald, Jonathan M. Time for Choosing : The Rise of Modern American Conservatism.
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Holzer's first dance project was in 1985, “Holzer Duet … Truisms” with Bill T. Jones. In 2010, she collaborated with choreographer Miguel Gutierrez for the Co-Lab series at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. There were 10 dancers who performed in a room in which Holzer's words were projected along the walls.Claudia La Rocco (July 23, 2010), Her Words, His Movement, Their Collaboration New York Times.
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Studies are first. The kids like it and we do everything as a team." A Vermont newspaper in 2005 published a feature story on Beaney's coaching philosophy which it dubbed "the gospel according to Bill Beaney." The elements of the Beaney gospel include such truisms as "don't take anything for granted," "they have to keep working hard," and "playing just one game at a time.
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Eventually, Levine became the Director of the Asian Studies Center at the Univ. of Illinois and, later, Chairman of the East Asian Studies program and professor of industrial relations and international business at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Although widely respected, Levine's work often ran counter to accepted truisms on the subject. For example, Japan's postwar boom was often attributed to an extraordinarily loyal and docile workforce.
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Kennedy introduces, as well as criticizes, the concept of "most oppressed people ever" (MOPE) to describe what he sees as a pervasive assumption both among Irish nationalists and the Irish diaspora that Irish people have been uniquely victimised throughout history. Throughout the book he plays devil's advocate while questioning many truisms he perceives as being commonly accepted about Irish history. The book received generally favourable reviews.
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Meichsner has studied philosophy and history at Cologne and Freiburg universities. Her doctorate in 1982 ("Über die Logik von Gemeinplätzen", On the Logic of Platitudes) dealt with platitudes and truisms from a philosophical standpoint.Irene Meichsner, Die Logik von Gemeinplätzen. Vorgeführt an Steuermannstopos und Schiffsmetapher. 1983recension by Dietmar Peil in Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Literaturwissenschaft, Wolfgang Frühwald und Wolfgang Harms, Verlag C. H. Beck Munich, p/1987 Since 1981 she works as journalist in Cologne.
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To gain compliance and source credibility, a two- sided message must demonstrate the sender's position, then the opposition's position, followed by a refutation of the opposition's argument, then finally the sender's position again. McGuire led a series of experiments assessing inoculation's efficacy and adding nuance to our understanding for how it works). Early studies limited testing of inoculation theory to cultural truisms, or beliefs accepted without consideration (e.g., people should brush their teeth daily).
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The National Buffalo Wing Festival in September 2012 Reverend Billy Graham staged his Greater Buffalo-Niagara Crusade at the venue in August 1988. Goo Goo Dolls filmed the music video for their debut single "There You Are" at the venue in October 1990. Artist Jenny Holzer commandeered the venue's center field scoreboard in July 1991 to display her famed Truisms. She was in town to promote the opening of her Venice installation at the Albright–Knox Art Gallery.
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As Watson notes, this is information "of a kind seldom found in the officially compiled histories of the era".Chou, xvii Du Fu's political comments are based on emotion rather than calculation: his prescriptions have been paraphrased as, "Let us all be less selfish, let us all do what we are supposed to do". Since his views were impossible to disagree with, his forcefully expressed truisms enabled his installation as the central figure of Chinese poetic history.Chou, 16.
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The "Nine Noble Virtues", first compiled by Odinic Rite founder John "Stubba" Yeowell in the 1970s are "loosely based" on the Hávamál. The Northvegr Foundation cites the Hávamál among other Old Norse and Old English sources to illustrate "the ethical ideal of the Northern spiritual faith of Heithni."Alfta Lothursdottir, Trulog and Sogumal, Northvegr (2006); Trúlög: Northern Truisms (northvegr.org) Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson, leader of the Icelandic Ásatrúarfélagið, published his performance of a number of Eddaic poems, including the Hávamál, chanted in rímur style.
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The New York Times. Film review of The Set-Up, March 30, 1949. Last accessed: December 14, 2007. Jefferson Hunter, in a Summer 2008 essay for The Hudson Review, wrote: :All through The Set-Up, we see confirmed the oldest of truisms about film, that it tells its stories best in images, in what can be shown—a crowd’s blood lust, the boxers’ awareness of what’s coming to them in the end—as opposed to what is spoken or narrated.
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He often collaborated with both artists and non-artists, giving them significant freedom in their contributions to his works. For instance, one of the better known types of his works consists of colored letters embroidered in grids ("arazzi", meaning wall hangings or tapestries) on canvases of varying sizes, the letters upon closer inspection reading as short phrases in Italian, for instance Ordine e Disordine ("Order and Disorder") or Fuso Ma Non Confuso ("Mixed but not mixed up"), or similar truisms and wordplays.
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He also discusses the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. Kołakowski criticizes Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason (1960). Kołakowski criticizes dialectical materialism, arguing that it consists partly of truisms with no specific Marxist content, partly of philosophical dogmas, partly of nonsense, and partly of statements that could be any of these things depending on how they are interpreted. In the preface added to the 2005 edition, Kołakowski attributed the demise of communism in Europe partly to the collapse of Marxism as an ideology.
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Smith informed him that they had several children, that they lived in the vicinity of London, that their name was Smith, that Mr. Smith was a clerk, and that they had a servant, Mary, who was English like themselves. What was remarkable about Mrs. Smith, Ionesco thought, was her eminently methodical procedure in her quest for truth. For Ionesco, the clichés and truisms of the conversation primer disintegrated into wild caricature and parody with language itself disintegrating into disjointed fragments of words.
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The Protocols is one of the best-known and most-discussed examples of literary forgery, with analysis and proof of its fraudulent origin dating as far back as 1921.. The forgery is an early example of "conspiracy theory" literature.. Written 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 and the financial institutions, change the traditional social order, etc. It does not contain specifics.
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Once the time have passed, the work that Gheorghe Petrașcu left to posterity, about three thousand paintings and many graphic works, became a dowry of fine art on which all sorts of observations were made, being different all of them.Vasile Florea... pag. 5 Those who studied his work and valued his creation found that there is a lot of confusion and erroneous appreciation in his biography. There were minimizations, invectives and unjust criticisms, many persiflages but also truisms, benevolent platitudes, exaggerations and praise of circumstance.
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Arguments against Marxism are often based on epistemological reasoning. Specifically, various critics have contended that Marx or his adherents have a flawed approach to epistemology. According to Leszek Kołakowski, the laws of dialectics at the very base of Marxism are fundamentally flawed: some are "truisms with no specific Marxist content", others "philosophical dogmas that cannot be proved by scientific means", yet others just "nonsense". Some Marxist "laws" are vague and can be interpreted differently, but these interpretations generally fall into one of the aforementioned categories of flaws as well.
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Taguchi's designs aimed to allow greater understanding of variation than did many of the traditional designs from the analysis of variance (following Fisher). Taguchi contended that conventional sampling is inadequate here as there is no way of obtaining a random sample of future conditions.Similar truisms about the problem of induction had been voiced by Hume and (more recently) by W. Edwards Deming in his discussion of analytic studies. In Fisher's design of experiments and analysis of variance, experiments aim to reduce the influence of nuisance factors to allow comparisons of the mean treatment-effects.
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Compressed fiber gasket Gaskets are normally made from a flat material, a sheet such as paper, rubber, silicone, metal, cork, felt, neoprene, nitrile rubber, fiberglass, polytetrafluoroethylene (otherwise known as PTFE or Teflon) or a plastic polymer (such as polychlorotrifluoroethylene). One of the more desirable properties of an effective gasket in industrial applications for compressed fiber gasket material is the ability to withstand high compressive loads. Most industrial gasket applications involve bolts exerting compression well into the 14 MPa (2000 psi) range or higher. Generally speaking, there are several truisms that allow for better gasket performance.
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" Ebert noted that "instead of angst, Freudian analysis, despair and self-hate, the new generation sounds like the cast of a sitcom, trading laugh lines and fuzzy truisms." CNN.com's Paul Clinton also lauded The Broken Hearts Club for focusing on "the universal themes of romance, acceptance and family", as opposed to AIDS, coming out, and sex. Clinton viewed the film as "reminiscent of those classic films that explored the complex dynamics of friendship", calling it "a heartwarming, glorious movie for anyone who has ever had a friend – or a family.
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz suggested that we are born with certain innate ideas, the most identifiable of these being mathematical truisms. The idea that 1 + 1 = 2 is evident to us without the necessity for empirical evidence. Leibniz argues that empiricism can only show us that concepts are true in the present; the observation of one apple and then another in one instance, and in that instance only, leads to the conclusion that one and another equals two. However, the suggestion that one and another will always equal two require an innate idea, as that would be a suggestion of things unwitnessed.
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Las Últimas Noticias stated that "while the epic of the rescue is observed thanks to the effective recreation, the agony of the rescued remains in debt in the staging", and also noted the "young and handsome" hero stereotype. La Segunda described it as "a catastrophe film with a life message and sentimental vocation that is not willing to give up to truisms associated with the image that Hollywood has of Hispanic America". El Mercurio gave a negative review, criticizing the absence of people responsible for the precarious working conditions of the miners, although praising the recreation of the mine and the catastrophe.
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She printed other Truisms on posters, T-shirts and stickers, and carved them into stone benches. In late 1980, Holzer's mail art and street leaflets were included in the exhibition Social Strategies by Women Artists at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts, curated by Lucy Lippard.Issue: Social strategies by women artists : an exhibition Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held November 14 - December 21, 1980. Text by Lucy R. Lippard and Margaret Harrison. Published by Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1980. /9780905263090 In 1981, Holzer initiated the Living series, printed on aluminum and bronze plaques, the presentation format used by medical and government buildings.
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The rationale is that such reverse-coded items force respondents to engage consciously and deliberately with survey questions, rather than automatically. While this technique has been shown to minimise a construct's relationship with acquiescence bias, it is imperfect in that respondents continue to provide responses biased by acquiescence. Douglas N. Jackson demonstrated acquiescence responding on the California F-scale (a measure of authoritarianism), which contains such truisms. He created a reverse-keyed version of the California F-scale where all the items were the opposite in meaning (see the two previous examples for a pair of such contradictory statements).
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Leszek Kołakowski, writing in Main Currents of Marxism (1976), argued that dialectical materialism consists partly of "truisms with no specific Marxist content", partly of "philosophical dogmas", partly of nonsense, and partly of statements that—depending on how they are interpreted—could be any of these things. H. B. Acton described the creed as "a philosophical farrago". Max Eastman argued that dialectical materialism lacks a psychological basis.p.12 Philosopher Allen Wood argued that, in its form as an official Soviet philosophy, dialectical materialism was doomed to be superficial because "creativity or critical thinking" was impossible in an authoritarian environment.
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Dr. Rohana was reported as saying: "It is time to hand over the songs in order to revive them two decades after my father's passing. I hope to ensure that his songs continue to live in the hearts of young artists in Malaysia." It is said that Zubir was viewed by many as a composer with a "true Malay soul", as his songs, traditional but yet modern and patriotic, were interwoven with historical messages and Malay truisms. Journalist A. Samad Ismail commented that Zubir and his Minangkabau contemporaries awoke a wave of national consciousness in the 1950s.
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There is some debate about the relative merits of the different techniques that can be employed in revenue assurance. As yet, there is no professional body, no qualifications, and no academic research that would help to drive consensus about the purpose or methods of revenue assurance. In part this is addressed by individuals working in the sector through membership and qualification in related fields such as accountancy and information systems audit. Some scientific research in other fields is also applicable to revenue assurance, though most revenue assurance "facts" rely heavily on anecdotes and oft-repeated truisms.
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"Thus," wrote the puppeteers, "it is a form of manipulation: like gears driven by motors which in turn are driven by a remote technician — which is appropriate to its function in the play — an apparently authorless automaton spewing forth programmed truisms." The crocodile was given but one manipulator to the dog's one for each head. They moved about freely and in the same space as the human characters, rather than being restricted in the traditional playboard sense seen in such earlier plays as Woyzeck on the Highveld. The puppeteers thought it difficult, though, to conceive of their being represented by human characters.
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For example, a respondent might be presented with the statement "gardening makes me feel happy," and would then be expected to select either 'agree' or 'disagree.' Such question formats are favoured by both survey designers and respondents because they are straightforward to produce and respond to. The bias is particularly prevalent in the case of surveys or questionnaires that employ truisms as the stimuli, such as: "It is better to give than to receive" or "Never a lender nor a borrower be". Acquiescence bias can introduce systematic errors that affect the validity of research by confounding attitudes and behaviours with the general tendency to agree, which can result in misguided inference.
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John Tooby, Leda Cosmides, and H. Clark Barrett have refuted claims that mainstream evolutionary psychology neglects development, arguing that their discipline is, in reality, exceptionally interested in and highly considerate of development. In particular, they cite cross-cultural studies as a sort of natural developmental "experiment," which can reveal the influence of culture in shaping developmental outcomes. The authors assert that the arguments of developmental systems theorists consists largely of truisms, of which evolutionary psychologists are well aware, and that developmental systems theory has no scientific value because it fails to generate any predictions. Debra Lieberman similarly objected to the characterization of evolutionary psychology as ignorant of developmental principles.
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Reuters Leszek Kołakowski Kolakowski became increasingly fascinated by the contribution that theological assumptions make to Western and, in particular, modern thought. For example, he began his Main Currents of Marxism with an analysis of the contribution that various forms of mediaeval Platonism made, centuries later, to the Hegelian view of history. In the work, he criticized the laws of dialectical materialism for being fundamentally flawed and found some of them being "truisms with no specific Marxist content", others "philosophical dogmas that cannot be proved by scientific means" but others being just "nonsense". Kołakowski defended the role which freedom plays in the human quest for the transcendent.
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To quote Penrose again: "[I]t tends to be invoked by theorists whenever they do not have a good enough theory to explain the observed facts." Chapter 10. Carter's SAP and Barrow and Tipler's WAP have been dismissed as truisms or trivial tautologies—that is, statements true solely by virtue of their logical form and not because a substantive claim is made and supported by observation of reality. As such, they are criticized as an elaborate way of saying, "If things were different, they would be different," which is a valid statement, but does not make a claim of some factual alternative over another.
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Tonality and atonality are not applied in a strictly antithetical manner, therefore the ideas of the American minimalists Reich and Riley are very present. This music has colour and a rhythmic pulse; it creates characteristic sounds without losing itself in descriptive patterns. Miss Fortune moved to London in March 2012, garnering at least two negative reviews. Edward Seckerson in The Independent (London) wrote of "Miss Fortune in name and deed" and described the opera as "silly and naive" and "a waste of talent and resources", with a libretto that "vacillates between the banal and the unintentionally comedic (or is that irony?), full of truisms and clunky metaphors" and "about as streetwise as a visitor from Venus".
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The publication of The Modern Rise of Population (1976) provoked instant disagreement by demographers, but also yielded much acclaim from health critics. In the 1970s, an era wherein all aspects of social, economic and cultural establishment were challenged, McKeown found a receptive audience with other health critics such as Ivan Illich. By some researchers, including the economist and Nobel prize winner Angus Deaton, McKeown is considered as the founder of social medicine. It is remarkable that McKeown's work, even many years after publication and his death in 1988, still gives rise to severe criticisms. Sometimes his conclusions are being criticised by mild truisms: ‘His great virtue was to ask the right questions.
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Commonweal called it as “[a] superior novel, intricately worked out at several levels of human and spiritual quest...” The New York Times described it as “[a] reading experience of real emotional intensity.”The Devil's Advocate, Goodreads Some reviewers compared him favorably with Graham Greene. "Never a subtle writer, West makes his approach to timeless truths (and truisms) at a strictly popular level, includes some sex and much emotion, but has his elements of enigma and drama well in hand." (Kirkus Reviews)The Devil's Advocate, Kirkus Reviews > In spite of a style which is more frequently deft than distinguished, The > Devil's Advocate is a work of merit...As a novel it is a curious blend of > slickness and profundity.
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Similarly, many of the concepts central to the book are now well accepted medical truisms. For example, since the 1970s "falls risks" has become a standard assessment for all patients and the notion that "gomers go to ground" is well established, if not always phrased in those terms. It has been argued that 'The House of God' was revolutionary in that it brought to light paradoxical issues of care in modern medicine. Patients (in the book under Putzel) who were not acutely ill could nevertheless be admitted to the hospital and undergo multiple invasive procedures, creating a revenue stream for the hospital but exposing the patient to risk and discomfort, and demoralizing the residents.
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Israeli academia leading up to the Yom Kippur War in 1973 was obediently patriotic and Zionist. He recounts the emergence of the post-Zionist movement in the 1990s, particularly how the decade lead to divergences and challenges to truisms of Zionism in academia by New Historians and the public domain. Pappé also analyzes works which compare Israel's teachings of The Holocaust—particularly its causes and impact—to its justification of harsh policies toward the Palestinians. In the final two chapters of The Idea of Israel, Pappé describes the rise to prominence of neo-Zionism, which he characterizes as a highly nationalistic and racist version of Zionism that views any criticism of Israel as treasonous.
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He explores the longstanding western exploitation of the Middle East for its oil resources, first by the British Empire and subsequently by the U.S. post-World War II, and then looks at the U.S.' role in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, continually supporting Israel both militarily and politically, furthering human right abuses against the Palestinian people and repeatedly sabotaging the peace process. Chomsky argues that U.S. government attempts to solve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, such as the 1994 Oslo Accords (shown here), have been a sham, continually favoring Israeli-U.S. interests. The eighth chapter, "Terrorism and Justice: Some Useful Truisms", looks at what Chomsky calls "a few simple truths" regarding the criteria that is accepted for a conflict to be internationally recognized as a "just war".
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In section one, he argues that he has certain knowledge of a number of truisms, such as "My body has existed continuously on or near the earth, at various distances from or in contact with other existing things, including other living human beings", "I am a human being", and "My body existed yesterday". In section two, he argues that there is a distinction between mental facts and physical facts. He says there is no good reason to believe, as many philosophers of his time did, that every physical fact is logically dependent on mental facts, or that every physical fact is causally dependent on mental facts. An example of a physical fact is "The mantelpiece is at present nearer to this body than that bookcase is".
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" He concluded by saying that it "is simply a synthesis of every mildly wicked, tepidly controversial trick in the Cooper handbook. But in escaping from the mask of rock singer which he claimed he found so confining, Cooper has found just another false face." In addition, Robert Christgau rated the album a B− grade, stating that it "actually ain't so bad – no worse than all the others". He stated that the varying compositions of the songs would potentially cause the album to influence younger listeners, saying: "Alice's nose for what the kids want to hear is as discriminating as it is impervious to moral suasion, so perhaps this means that the more obvious feminist truisms have become conventional wisdom among at least half our adolescents.
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" Rebecca Kylie Law, Rochford St Review "…is determined to take the reader on a dive beneath. It took me on a voyage which I found bracing and stimulating at the same time as it did not turn away from the discomforting reality of the costs our lives inflict on our futures." Rae Desmond Jones, "Les Wicks has a capacity to invest ordinary truisms with moral and metaphysical nuances…these are tip-of-the-iceberg poems – a surface you can see and admire, but with hidden depths that are both wonderful and disturbing." David Gilbey, ABC Radio "...the mixture of prawn- on-the-barbie, stale beer and thongs suburban, with a sophisticated lyricism and openness to nature... harvesting poetic truffles; line after line seems to have arrived entire.
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" Andy Gill of The Independent said, "Rarely has a band of such stature sounded quite so enervated and bereft of inspiration as U2 do here". The review said the band had been "reduced to hackneyed cheap tricks and tired old truisms barely worth the chords they're strung on – which are themselves the limpest melodies of their career." Terence Cawley of The Boston Globe said the album rarely deviates from the formula that U2 has followed since their 2000 album All That You Can't Leave Behind, in that it combines musical crescendos with uninsightful motivational lyrics. He assessed that "the band rarely builds up enough momentum to achieve lift-off, instead slowing to an adult contemporary-friendly gait for much of the album's second half.
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Philosopher and historian of ideas Leszek Kołakowski pointed out that "Marx's theory is incomplete or ambiguous in many places, and could be 'applied' in many contradictory ways without manifestly infringing its principles". Specifically, he considers "the laws of dialectics" as fundamentally erroneous, stating that some are "truisms with no specific Marxist content", others "philosophical dogmas that cannot be proved by scientific means" and some just "nonsense". He believes that some Marxist laws can be interpreted differently, but that these interpretations still in general fall into one of the two categories of error. Okishio's theorem shows that if capitalists use cost-cutting techniques and real wages do not increase, the rate of profit must rise, which casts doubt on Marx's view that the rate of profit would tend to fall.
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The Women in the Arts event, established in 1994 by the MOCA fundraising arm the MOCA Projects Council, is a benefit for MOCA's educational programs and generally draws more than 600 people from the fields of art, fashion, philanthropy, film and other areas of entertainment. The Award to Distinguished Women in the Arts recognizes women providing leadership and innovation in visual arts, dance, music and literature.Deborah Vankin (September 19, 2013), Sharon Stone will host MOCA's Distinguished Women in the Arts event Los Angeles Times. Artist Jenny Holzer designed the bronze plaque, which features one of the artist's truisms: “It is in your self-interest to find a way to be very tender.”MOCA Award to Distinguished Women in the Arts Honors Artist Jenny Holzer Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, March 9, 2010.
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The sparse simplicity of the intricate guitar picking and emotive lyrics create a euphoric, wave-like quality to transport the listener to a seaside town and recall moments from troubled relationships to defiant declarations of love. To Seafret's already large fan- base, ‘Tell Me It’s Real’ will deliver more of the delicate emotion that they love, however, for the undecided listener, a little more variation and experimentation wouldn't go amiss." Molly Kerkham from ForgePress said, "While the album traverses tried and tested ground for love songs, Seafret’s song writing breathes fresh air into these topics. The songs are packed full of metaphors, but even with gentle lines such as "I’m like a skimming stone waiting to be sent back to you", the lyrics avoid being a collection of romance truisms.
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He argues that these truisms are continually ignored when it comes to the actions of the U.S. and her allies. Exploring the concepts of "terror" and "terrorism", he argues that the U.S. only use the term to refer to the actions of their enemies, and never to their own actions, no matter how similar they may be. As an example of such double standards, he highlights the public outcry at the killing of Leon Klinghoffer, a disabled American murdered by Palestinian militants in 1985, contrasting it with the complete U.S. ignorance of the Israeli military's killing of a disabled Palestinian, Kemal Zughayer, in 2002. Focusing in on the Afghan War – widely described as a "just war" in the U.S. press – he criticizes such a description, arguing that the conflict was opposed by the majority of the world's population, including the Afghan people.
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The Empress Dowager was also a more conservative leader, which was not common for a female leader of those times. She went on to claim that this resulted in Empress Dowager Cixi being portrayed in a one- sided, negative and narrow view where she was called names such as “she dragon” or the “usurper of a throne” and viewed as either a tyrant or incompetent. Despite this, writers such as Jung Chang have criticized this narrative and have written works such as Chang's Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China in order to offer an opposing view. In recent decades, claims Pamela Kyle Crossley, a historian of the dynasty, some historians in the West have developed "truisms" in the representation of Cixi: "that she has been obscured by misogyny and orientalist stereotyping, as well as the anti-Manchu sentiment running through Chinese nationalist narratives".
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The last surviving economist advises that "There ain't no such thing as free lunch." In 1950, a New York Times columnist ascribed the phrase to economist (and army general) Leonard P. Ayres of the Cleveland Trust Company: "It seems that shortly before the General's death [in 1946]... a group of reporters approached the general with the request that perhaps he might give them one of several immutable economic truisms that he had gathered from his long years of economic study... 'It is an immutable economic fact,' said the general, 'that there is no such thing as a free lunch.'"Fetridge, Robert H, "Along the Highways and Byways of Finance," The New York Times, Nov 12, 1950, p. 135 The September 8, 1961, issue of LIFE magazine has an editorial on page 4, "'TANSTAFL,' It's the Truth," that closes with an anecdotal farmer explaining this slight variant of TANSTAAFL.
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Some contemporary reviewers felt he went too far in this story. In a long essay in MacMillan's magazine, "an admirer"—who, judging from his comment on bicycles and horses, does not feel the same way about machines as Kipling—complained, : Here all Mr. Kipling's mania break loose all at once—there is the madness of American slang, the madness of technical jargon, and the madness of believing that silly talk, mostly consisting of moral truisms, is amusing because you put it into the mouths of machines.... It is no doubt true that machines have their idiosyncrasies, their personalities even; a bicycle can be nearly as annoying as a horse. For once in a way it may be good fun to push the fancy a little farther and attribute to them sentient life, but Mr. Kipling has overdone the thing.An Admirer (1899): "The Madness of Mr. Kipling," MacMillan's Magazine, v.
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Although essentially a comedy series, Schooley and McCorkle also combined elements of adventure, relationships, and humor in order to appeal to both boys, who are primarily interested in action, and girls, who are more-so attracted to relationships and character development, aware of "ancient truisms" surrounding the belief that boys are generally less likely to watch a series starring a female lead, while girls seldom exhibit such reservations when the casting situation is reversed. Without alienating younger viewers, to whom the show refuses to "talk down", the writing in Kim Possible is "a little older than" that of traditional Disney animated series. While avoiding adult references, Schooley and McCorkle opted for a fast-paced sitcom-style dialogue and rhythm that attracted adult viewers instead, ultimately resulting in teleplays that were typically five pages longer than traditional Disney Channel scripts. Additionally, the show heavily parodies the popular James Bond films.
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In addition to winning the Golden Lion for her work at the 1990 Venice Biennale, Holzer has received several other prestigious awards, including the Art Institute of Chicago's Blair Award (1982); the Skowhegan Medal for Installation (1994); the Crystal Award from the World Economic Forum (1996); the Berlin Prize fellowship (2000); the Order of Arts and Letters diploma of Chevalier from the French government (2002) and the Barnard Medal of Distinction (2011). In 2010, Holzer received the Distinguished Women in the Arts Award from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA). The annual award – recognizing women for their leadership and innovation in the visual arts, dance, music, and literature – is a bronze plaque originally designed by the artist in 1994, featuring one of her Truisms: “It is in your self-interest to find a way to be very tender.”MOCA AWARD TO DISTINGUISHED WOMEN IN THE ARTS HONORS CELEBRATED VISUAL ARTIST JENNY HOLZER Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
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