Word: truisms
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...wants to. Born to a culture that rejects blackness as code word for Haitian (Dominicans, they say, speak Spanish and are civilized), he’s now well adjusted. His experiences alongside his brethren in heavily-Hispanic South Florida, and outside that bubble, have led him to accept this truism: color matters. And my mother accepts that. She acknowledges that we all do not fit harmoniously under the banner of pan-ethnicity, that even within this ideal of unity, political coalition, and shared identity, those stigmatized few will fall by the wayside, will remain stranded on the outskirts. But there?...
...Roman truism says that every new Pope changes the papacy, and the papacy changes every new Pope. In the case of Benedict XVI, a casual observer might wonder if the man who once was an iron-clad Cardinal has recently gone soft. Back in September, Benedict broke fresh ground for his ancient office by delivering an intellectually charged - and baldly controversial - lecture on faith, reason and violence. It was the young papacy's quintessential Ratzinger moment, as the 79-year-old professor-turned-pope returned to his old university in Regensburg to draw a theological line in the sand that...
...Neither is Aronofsky?s movie. Ever. It?s a truism of the adventure film that audiences can take it seriously if it doesn?t take itself too seriously. Play the material lightheartedly and viewers can enter into its world; play it straight and solemn, and they?ll get the giggles. The Fountain, which with its opening chords announces its life-or-death theme (and life beyond death), has no time or inclination for comedy. Every line of dialogue, each special effect, all those portentous glances underline the desperate urgency of Tom?s enterprise: to find a way to stop Izzy...
...which denomination they belonged to. Over the last few decades that has proven to be an ever-weakening predictor of moral and political behavior, particularly as denominational definitions have become more elastic and fewer people are attending a church because of the specifics of its doctrine. The current sociological truism is that a Methodist who finds his way to church three times a week and a Catholic who attends daily Mass have more in common than either does with a Christmas-and-Easter liberal in his own church...
...truism that we Americans are a religious people. According to the most recent surveys, 95% of Americans believe in God, more than two-thirds belong to a church, 37% call themselves committed Christians, and substantially more people believe in angels than believe in evolution. Nor is religion confined to places of worship. Books proclaiming the end of days sell millions of copies, Christian music fills the Billboard charts, and new megachurches seem to spring up daily, providing everything from day care to singles mixers to yoga and Pilates classes. Our President routinely remarks on how Christ changed his heart...