| It is a truism to say that fieldwork is a prerequisite to any sort of research on Neotropical birds. |
| The sociological truism is that a societal order is shored up by its legitimations, which provide the defenses against its despisers. |
| It is a truism to say that we describe the world through the lens our own experience. |
| It is taken as a truism by most people that dishonesty and yobbish behaviour are on the increase in society. |
| An old truism regarding alcoholism is that if someone close to you thinks it's a problem, it's a problem. |
| An old truism about the perverse ways of big business surfaced again last week in the pages of the Financial Times. |
