How To Use Truism In A Sentence

Relaxing, in amusement at her unwonted altruism of motive, she had drawn her moleskin coat more closely around her, and settled back to wait the other woman's pleasure in returning to the bright warmth that the pale-orange ribbon of light, wavering upon the swaying platform, harbingered. Undesirables
It is thus not a mere truism that all democratic countries stand with Norway in its adversity and suffering. Times, Sunday Times
THERE is a simple truism that governs all competitive pursuits, poker very much included: you win some and you lose some. Times, Sunday Times
Dogmatic constraints, tactical stereotypes, schematism in place of originality, and the boring repetition of truisms are contributing factors in creative infecundity.
It is a truism of Catholic thinking that grace builds on nature.

It is as much corporate self-interest as corporate altruism.
Some have therefore concluded that behaviour in this category can not be termed altruism at all.
Mental ability tests do not measure personality, social adroitness, leadership, charisma, cool-headedness, altruism, or many other things that we value.
The notion that theories take precedence over facts is now a truism of a postmodern, post-fact, true-spin/values world. Are We Finally Waking Up...or Merely Trading One Set of Illusions for Another?
What a thing to say: "I have achieved eumoiriety," -- namely the quintessence of happy-fatedness dealt unto oneself by a perfect altruism! Simon the Jester
What other human behaviour has its origins in reciprocal altruism? Times, Sunday Times
It has become a truism to say that the home of weighty subjects in fiction is often young adult books. Times, Sunday Times
Just as nature is said to abhor a vacuum, it abhors true altruism.
The flame of truism burns bright in Shane's love for Dostoyevsky's kind of Crime & Punishment.
It's a cliché, but also a truism, that love and hate are not opposites but, rather, intimately entwined.
This work is not just a show of altruism. Times, Sunday Times
I argued at the time altruism was being discussed that there is no pure altruism.
In fact how we behave at Christmas says all sorts of interesting things about our collective and individual psyches: the need the belong, to be part of the community, the psychology of altruism, the art of lying.
It is a truism that rights and responsibilities go hand in hand.
As this description points out, Rubin suggests that in a hunter-gatherer tribe, goods are exchanged mostly through sharing and reciprocal altruism.
Not the least remarkable thing about the internet is that it is awash with altruism.
It's an old truism of magazine publishing that if you want to sell a magazine to women, put a pretty woman on the front. Times, Sunday Times
Most baseball men subscribe to familiar truisms about talent, character, and the chemistry of winning teams.
Human co-operation is reciprocal altruism. Times, Sunday Times
So alongside reciprocal altruism there evolved ways of identifying people who would - if you did a favour for them - do a favour back. Times, Sunday Times
It is an old truism that in the life room you don't draw the body in front of you, you draw the one inside you. Times, Sunday Times
And, we realized the old truism from the original cytogenetics which was that the telomere is really important for protecting ends and, as you might expect, the cell actually devotes all sorts of machinery to make sure that never goes wrong, or goes wrong as little as possible. Elizabeth H. Blackburn - Interview
Once more, altruism fails to feature very strongly. Growing Through Loss and Grief
Patients who take part in trials do so at least partly from altruism.
Grant's book is a highly nuanced examination of much of the literature on altruism and agape, while also giving some attention to recent considerations of eros and philia.
In her "Introduction" to Kissing the Rod, Germaine Greer comments that the "attempt to versify on religious themes was a discipline intended to focus concentration on well-worn pious truisms" (12). My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem
The strength of altruism lies in the fact that altruistic acts undeniably occur in any society and that moral codes universally advocate altruism or benevolence and condemn selfishness.
Ultimately, it also proves the primitively atavistic nature of human beings: that altruism is an unnatural societal construct and that self-interest is the natural impulse of the human animal. Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Inside Job
It is not altruism that is at work here; it is globalisation.
As far as health is concerned, it's a truism that prevention is better than cure.
The criteria for reciprocal altruism seem fulfilled as the interactions seem based upon expectations of reciprocation.
Nor is gender or ethnicity any guarantee of altruism, probity or intelligence. Times, Sunday Times
And in spite of the obvious leaps beyond reality that shows like “Law & Order” take, one thing that is a truism is the cozy relationship between the police, district attorneys and judges. Archive 2008-04-01
Many choose to work in developing countries out of altruism.
in the fact that altruistic acts undeniably occur in any society and that moral codes universally advocate altruism or benevolence and condemn selfishness.
Nobody pretends that the retailers' attempts to green themselves are pure altruism. Times, Sunday Times
It is a truism to say that humanity is gone out of journalism.
It seems almost a truism that the array of beneficial fitness effects must depend idiosyncratically on the biological details of an organism and its environment.
It is a criminological truism that contemporary spree killers desire maximum publicity for their actions. Anders Behring Breivik reconstruction: making a killer look cool | Chris Greer and Eugene McLaughlin
The principle of altruism underpins the code of ethics and practice which provide regulatory guidance.
Actions taken for reasons of political and economic expediency have been presented as if altruism were the sole motive. The Chomsky Update - Linguistics and Politics
The egoism and altruism attribute of individual behavior all is to meet own needs.
It is therefore possible to give an account of moral altruism by appeal simply to the principle of natural selection.
It's full of truisms, generalisations and nonsense.
That is more than a mere truism. Times, Sunday Times
An old truism regarding alcoholism is that if someone close to you thinks it's a problem, it's a problem.
He said that they had shown courage and altruism and made the supreme sacrifice. Times, Sunday Times
Now it transpires that dolphins are also capable of self-sacrifice and altruism, which hitherto had belonged only in the realm of myth. Times, Sunday Times
Most of us will see it as a truism but it is also a warning against the tendency of all of us, ethnobiologists are no exception, to get carried away.
They raise basic philosophical issues dealing with the nature of ownership, the validation of knowledge, and concepts such as altruism and collective goods.
It is possible to think of a number of ways in which reciprocity might sustain medical altruism.
Hiking fanatics can mix self-gratification with altruism by trekking through the wilderness for charity this weekend.
The autonomy granted to the legal profession by the state and tolerated by the public is based upon its expertise and altruism.
From a scientific standpoint a suicide attack represents an extreme form of parochial altruism -- a self-sacrificial act made on behalf of one's in-group, involving aggression against an out-group. Matt J. Rossano: The Surprising Effect of Religious Devotion on Suicide Attacks
That beauty is in the eye of the beholder is a truism the beauty giants are all too aware of as they cash in on the hang-ups of different races. Changing faces: cosmetics firms are forced to find a new image as beauty goes truly global
He showed unflinching altruism, risking all for people he did not know. Times, Sunday Times
I have flaunted these truisms before you in order to exorcise that modern slang of yours which is more false than the overstrained forms of a feudal France. The Kempton-Wace Letters
I see managerialism as a virus which has as its main attribute the destruction of altruism and of individual clinical and scholarly activity.
My reason for acquiring one is self-interest, not altruism. Times, Sunday Times
It is a truism to say that in our social code the value of a man's character is determined by his position; and fine traits in a foreigner unless he should happen to be something very great strike us rather as part of a supposed mental alienism, and as such, naturally suspicious. Tales From Two Hemispheres
Before we all get too carried away it has to be said that his announcement was guided as much by healthy realism as by altruism.
It's a small act of altruism which changes not only their world view but the space time continuum. Times, Sunday Times
Hiking fanatics can mix self-gratification with altruism by trekking through the wilderness for charity this weekend.
Even if what you were suggesting was true, you would merely be confirming an old moral truism that evil actions can have good consequences.
The classic form of induced altruism in the animal world is, of course, the bird raising the cuckoo's egg.
The proof of the Proposition shows that the common truisms are precisely the elements of and unions of elements of, so any commonly known event is the consequence of a common truism.
And in the case of ants and other hymenoptera, they are highly successful. angryoldfatman: Kin altruism occurs, yes. At What Level did this Evolve?
The sessions are homespun affairs, filled with truisms and real-life examples that anyone can relate to.
It is a truism to say that fieldwork is a prerequisite to any sort of research on Neotropical birds.
Human co-operation is reciprocal altruism. Times, Sunday Times
When asked in an interview in 2002 what a proper response for the US to 9-11 would be, the renowned political philosopher and activist, Noam Chomsky, answered that whatever answer one gives, it should at least satisfy the most elementary moral truism that I can think of, namely that if some act is right for us, it is right for others; if it's wrong for others, it's wrong for us. OpEdNews - Quicklink: An Elementary Moral Truism
When we practise altruism on a large scale we say we are humanitarian. Times, Sunday Times
Orpington seems an example of the truism that nothing succeeds like success.
Sometimes a truism can be proclaimed in a manner that makes it startling.
Now, it's almost become a truism these days that management is all about attention to detail. Times, Sunday Times
No-one should argue against teaching future citizens to think critically and to subject orthodoxies and truisms to rigorous examination.
This is more than the trite truism that there is a thin line between love and hate.
Honesty makes better people and creates human relationships based on trust, integrity, righteousness and altruism. Dr T.P.Chia
Theirs is a mixture of altruism and self-interest. Times, Sunday Times
Now it transpires that dolphins are also capable of self-sacrifice and altruism, which hitherto had only belonged in the realm of myth. Times, Sunday Times
Taking all this trouble to build such a sympathetic environment was not done out of pure altruism but to improve the organisation. Times, Sunday Times
Through accustoming your mind to this sense of universal altruism, you develop Religious Harmony
Politicians are not necessarily motivated by pure altruism.
In order for the altruist not to be exploited by non-reciprocaters, it would be expected that reciprocal altruism can only exist in the co-presence of mechanisms to identify and punish "cheaters".
Theirs is a mixture of altruism and self-interest. Times, Sunday Times
But pervasive as this behavior may be, we do have moments of generosity and altruism.
This behaviour is known as reciprocal altruism - self-interested and interested in others at the same time. Times, Sunday Times
The strength of altruism lies in the fact that altruistic acts undeniably occur in any society and that moral codes universally advocate altruism or benevolence and condemn selfishness.
There are nine character traits including knowledge, facility, enterprising, sincerity, aggressivity, persistence, objectivity, altruism and activation influencing Chinese Language.
It is taken as a truism by most people that dishonesty and yobbish behaviour are on the increase in society.
As in the old poker truism, you have to pay to learn. Times, Sunday Times
Some have therefore concluded that behaviour in this category can not be termed altruism at all.
The term beneficence connotes acts of mercy, kindness, and charity, and is suggestive of altruism, love, humanity, and promoting the good of others. The Principle of Beneficence in Applied Ethics
Although this is not biological altruism, it is very close to it.
Certainly no one should imagine media corporations are suddenly guided by selfless altruism.
In reciprocal altruism individuals are not required to have any particular genetic relatedness with one another.
Other depositors may be willing to deposit data for reasons of altruism.
By the way, one truism is that people in the popular media tend to view a large number of job losses as more newsworthy than an equivalent number of job additions, particularly if the former are concentrated in some way (in a particular firm, industry, locale, or so on). Matthew Yglesias » What’s Not the Matter With American Manufacturing
Most health professionals are motivated by altruism and concern for patients' best interests.
You cannot just start writing down truisms, lest you end up writing prose, so how do you start poetically?
They have torn the soul of Christ into silly strips, labelled egoism and altruism, and they are equally puzzled by His insane magnificence and His insane meekness. Orthodoxy
It's a truism that as a general rule consumers seek bargains and businesses seek profits.
Have the guidelines for the electronic environment been validated, or are they like the ‘truism’ that a typeface with serifs is more readable than one without them?
Where the motive for charity is altruism, and the motive for capitalism is profit?
They appealed to people 's altruism. Times, Sunday Times
The principle of altruism underpins the code of ethics and practice which provide regulatory guidance.
in the fact that altruistic acts undeniably occur in any society and that moral codes universally advocate altruism or benevolence and condemn selfishness.
The other oft trotted-out truism is that the yard supports far more people than just the shipbuilders.
It is a truism of Catholic thinking that grace builds on nature.
The din from the Left is expected since a flawed and immoral position was rammed down the throats of the People for so long, not to mention Gun Control was held for so long as a truism and main platform by the radical members Democratic Party. What's Wrong with this Picture?
The notions of duty and altruism are vital for a tolerant, healthy society.
So, it looks like a promising case for a bit of reciprocal altruism.
It used to be a truism: cut interest rates to release money into the financial system and watch share prices zoom.
It is a truism to say that in our social code the value of a man's character is determined by his position; and fine traits in a foreigner (unless he should happen to be something very great) strike us rather as part of a supposed mental alienism, and as such, naturally suspicious. Tales from Two Hemispheres
Politicians are not necessarily motivated by pure altruism.
Although the NGO sector has become increasingly professionalised over the last two decades, principles of altruism and voluntarism remain key defining characteristics.
in the fact that altruistic acts undeniably occur in any society and that moral codes universally advocate altruism or benevolence and condemn selfishness.
Dogs are not noted for their understanding of abstract concepts, and so do not manifest altruism or self-sacrifice in any meaningful sense.
Its members have no volition, no foresight, no memory, no altruism (nor selfishness, in the strict sense).
Whether or not this altruism is realistic, especially given the large amount of money that Google pays to Mozilla, I think the important message is that users become aware of what a browser is and learn that there are alternatives to Internet Explorer. Lifehacker Readers Ditching Internet Explorer For Google Chrome | Lifehacker Australia
And, we realized the old truism from the original cytogenetics which was that the telomere is really important for protecting ends and, as you might expect, the cell actually devotes all sorts of machinery to make sure that never goes wrong, or goes wrong as little as possible. Elizabeth H. Blackburn - Interview
This work is not just a show of altruism. Times, Sunday Times
In an age where wars for oil and opium are waged under the disguise of altruism and democracy, works by those like Petty serve as prods to the sane.
A phenomenon that has been well studied in birds is altruism.
This behaviour is known as reciprocal altruism - self-interested and interested in others at the same time. Times, Sunday Times
I believe the human drive toward cooperation and altruism is far stronger than our drive to compete or relatiate, and is much more rewarded in our culture. Notes On Moderating A Blog
That sounds like a simple truism; that the inside of a box feels like the outside of a box. Times, Sunday Times
Over and over again, when reading newspaper articles full of pompous words borrowed from Latin through French, when wearied with 'velleities' and 'solidarities' and 'altruisms' and The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator
The market economy invests heavily in and rewards individualism, not self-sacrifice and altruism, the lifeblood of the family.
The author at qui tacet consentire videtur in a related article titled Subsidizing altruism and the National Infocomm Scholarship writes: Economics and charity runs, Eric Crampton | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Hardenberg might counter Jan that the practice of altruism is difficult, and it can have negative consequences. The Edukators, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
It is a truism to say that we describe the world through the lens our own experience.
The bottom line, he said, is that altruism may rely on a basic understanding that others hae motiations and actions that may be similar to our own.
That he served with Kennedy's example in mind indicates he was actuated more by self-aggrandisement than altruism.
The degree to which a society values altruism, known as social responsibility norms, can also have an effect.
So alongside reciprocal altruism there evolved ways of identifying people who would - if you did a favour for them - do a favour back. Times, Sunday Times
In the end, though, it's that old truism about parental guidance that counts.
One can't help but suspect that the motive behind the Italian researcher's efforts is rooted in gaining glory and renown rather than altruism.
That was a little bit of a challenge, and might bewilder some, but it confirmed one truism: Save your manuals! Robert J. Elisberg: The Writers Workbench: The Slingbox
Loving others is the greatest gift we can give ourselves. Altruism that rewards one's self. Allan Lokos
Extended altruism puts much of traditional war making in question, for it entails refusing to accept hate-based identities and depersonalisation of the official enemy.
It comes from a perfectly rational conviction that great powers never act out of pure altruism.
Yet systems of reciprocal altruism do emerge in various social species, even among us humans.
Dogmatic constraints, tactical stereotypes, schematism in place of originality, and the boring repetition of truisms are contributing factors in creative infecundity.
No one denies self-denial and noble altruism are generative of a host of spiritual benefits.
Through accustoming your mind to this sense of universal altruism, you develop a feeling of responsibility for others: the wish to help them actively overcome their problems. Compassion and the Individual
The strength of altruism lies in the fact that altruistic acts undeniably occur in any society and that moral codes universally advocate altruism or benevolence and condemn selfishness.
In this discussion the term creative capitalism has been seamlessly replaced by the likes of corporate social responsibility, corporate altruism, corporate charity, and corporate philanthropy. Creative Capitalism
Misguided though this might have been, my grandfather was motivated by altruism and a deep belief in human dignity.
Three hours is an awful long time in the cinema just to have that condescending truism lowered on us - in any case distorted and exaggerated to the point of mendacity.
Reporting from the nearby town of Harrisburg, Ira D. Rosen captured the bizarre combination of altruism and gallows humor the disaster prompted in the community.
Like other valid theorems, this is a truism, but it is not useless, for it helps in organising the argument.
To what extent its reproductive strategies emphasize such altruism depends on the pay-off of such strategies in terms of inclusive fitness.
The nostrum, in fact truism, that countries cannot really devalue their way to prosperity is important to bear in mind. The Down Side of Very Low Interest Rates Over Time
It is a masterful naturalistic performance, combining anger and despair with humour, resilience and altruism. Times, Sunday Times
Obama must soon makehis stand for negotiation, altruismand social cooperation versus preemptive military aggression, warand separation to be in sync with a rapidly uniting and evolving world. WHOEVER WINS U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION / IRAQ LOSES
So Tomasello's Max Planck colleague, primatologist Christophe Boesch, looked for evidence of altruism in the wild.
The strength of altruism lies in the fact that altruistic acts undeniably occur in any society and that moral codes universally advocate altruism or benevolence and condemn selfishness.
It is an old truism, but it's the case. Times, Sunday Times
It's an obvious truism but to succeed, the team's whole must exceed the sum of its parts.
This episode reinforces that old truism that there are two sides to each story and that neither is all white or all black.
Some authors treated the quantity theory as a matter of causal relation and explanation, often differing as to the content and direction of explanation, whereas others saw it as a truism, identity or tautology.
The result of all the investigations of this subject, appears to settle down into the hackneyed truism, that the passive verbs, and the moods and tenses, of some languages, are formed by inflections, or terminations either prefixed or postfixed, and of other languages, by the association of auxiliary verbs, which have not yet been contracted and made to coalesce as _terminations_. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
My reason for acquiring one is self-interest, not altruism. Times, Sunday Times
Many choose to work in developing countries out of altruism.
Loving others is the greatest gift we can give ourselves. Altruism that rewards one's self. Allan Lokos
Speaking off the cuff, she's lost in cliché and truism. Times, Sunday Times
in the fact that altruistic acts undeniably occur in any society and that moral codes universally advocate altruism or benevolence and condemn selfishness.
Both had their critics, but none of their detractors would doubt their altruism and social commitment.
Taking all this trouble to build such a sympathetic environment was not done out of pure altruism but to improve the organisation. Times, Sunday Times
She's not known for her altruism.
For we transmuted the vernacular word "altruism" to a quite different technical sense — and then solved the technical issue, leaving the human phenomenon (for which the word was invented) quite unresolved. 'Confusion Over Evolution': An Exchange
Objectivism then proceeds to "elevate" the pupil to true malignant narcissism by demonizing "altruism" -- Rand's term of art for all the empathetic values -- and lionizing sadism. Marcella Mroczkowski: Danger! Empathy and Psychopathy as Competing Value Systems in Politics and Economics
It has become a truism to say that the home of weighty subjects in fiction is often young adult books. Times, Sunday Times
Actions taken for reasons of political and economic expediency have been presented as if altruism were the sole motive. The Chomsky Update - Linguistics and Politics
This type of altruism seems inconsistent with principles of natural selection.
My grandmother, who is in an excellent state home, is of an age group who have shown a level of altruism and self-sacrifice that beggars belief.
Actions taken for reasons of political and economic expediency have been presented as if altruism were the sole motive. The Chomsky Update - Linguistics and Politics
Dogs are not noted for their understanding of abstract concepts, and so do not manifest altruism or self-sacrifice in any meaningful sense.
When we practise altruism on a large scale we say we are humanitarian. Times, Sunday Times
It is a masterful naturalistic performance, combining anger and despair with humour, resilience and altruism. Times, Sunday Times
He has used his sporting status to entice people into altruism. Times, Sunday Times
It's only when he leaps into the wild blue yonder of compassion, or idealism, or altruism, that he makes these hilarious mistakes.
What other human behaviour has its origins in reciprocal altruism? Times, Sunday Times
Learning this transforms a seemingly sorry life into one warmed by the kindness of strangers whose acts of altruism Mary sees as a counter to the teeming cruelties of the world, a reason to believe.
They were able to question the truisms that dominated British political thought, and thus set out in astonishingly new directions.
The book ends with an incisive analysis of animal altruism.
He showed unflinching altruism, risking all for people he did not know. Times, Sunday Times
It is an obvious truism that people act in accordance with their motives.
But, there is an old truism in public relations - you don't repeat the charges against you.
This song of himself is filled with exclamation points and pat truisms, however.
If that smacks of the antiquated language of retired generals, call it altruism and self-sacrifice.
The bottom line, he said, is that altruism may rely on a basic understanding that others hae motiations and actions that may be similar to our own.
He will be perhaps a radiating center of altruism, devoted to his friends, a level-headed protector of the working classes, a patron of the arts in his own clearminded, unlettered way. Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain)
In a flourish of biochemical altruism, they manufacture deadly molecules and then turn this lethal cocktail upon themselves.

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