(1) More than 2,000 years ago aphorist Publilius Syrus expressed precisely the same idea: "Debt is the slavery of the free", as did the Bible: "The rich rules over the poor and the borrower is the slave of the lender".
(2) Martin Amis, who has little time for Vidal the novelist, recognised the glory of the witty, learned, aphoristic essays.
(3) But that fine aphorist of late capitalism missed an efficiency saving.
(4) He writes in terse numbered paragraphs, following Nietzsche's aphoristic style.
(5) Is there anything else I can do to piss you off?” A picture of Obama with “Does this ass make my car look big?” The Republican style for 2016 is angry aphoristic humor.
Axiomatic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Axiomatical
Example Sentences:
(1) IMMEDIATE EFFECTS: It is worth stating what is almost axiomatic, because it is often forgotten, that undernutrition is likely to affect only those processes which are contemporaneous with it (plus some that follow it).
(2) It is axiomatic that communicating effectively is important for good sexual relations.
(3) The sequence of events that leads to irreversible injury of the ischaemic myocardium is poorly understood but it is axiomatic that lack of oxygen will impair regeneration of ATP.
(4) To summarize the perspective developed in this lecture we begin by considering it as axiomatic: (1) that aqueous domains delimited by lipid membranes typify cellular structure; (2) that different compositions of extracellular and intracellular aqueous domains and differences among intracellular aqueous domains require selective permeation of lipid membranes; and (3) that inorganic ion movements across lipid membranes are a common denominator in permeation.
(5) While the merit of taking a transgenic route to study genes of unknown function is axiomatic, the choices of strategies for gene regulation in vivo may not be fully appreciated.
(6) It should be axiomatic that whenever a patient with seminoma fails to respond appropriately to radiotherapy that his treatment be immediately discontinued and that appropriate biopsies be obtained to substantiate the histologic pattern present.
(7) The amount of fluorescent-labeled antibody bound per unit of surface area of film was measured by incident light with a Zeiss-Axiomat fluorescence microscope equipped for fluorescence photometry and an uranyl acetate glass plate was used as a standard.
(8) An analysis of the knowledge acquisition and computational needs of axiomatically-based expert systems is presented.
(9) It is thus denied axiomatic status, and the effects of natural selection are subsumed as an additional level of constraint in an evolutionary theory derived from the Axiom of Historically Determined Inherent Directionality.
(10) The study has revealed that the approximation of the model to the real epidemic process is connected with the introduction of the notion of the heterogeneity of the parasite and host populations into the axiomatics of modeling.
(11) "To say that I can't give you an objective description is not axiomatically to say that they don't exist," he protests – and he may well be right.
(12) This 20% figure has become so widely accepted that it is now almost axiomatic.
(13) In this paper the axiomatization of the elementary laws of genetics considered in Rizzotti & Zanardo (1986) is translated into a formal language and an axiomatic theory is defined in which the (translated) laws are deducible.
(14) Axiomatic foundations for a theory of perception have been given in a prior communication [Shiman, L. G. (1978) Proc.
(15) The results are compared with axiomatic theory data on spontaneous activity perturbated media.
(16) While it is axiomatic that SNP members want independence, they are far less gung-ho than their leadership fears.
(17) The principles of mathematical modelling and axiomatization of pathomorphological processes are outlined.
(18) To be both liberal and democratic is to be axiomatically part of a club that examines itself.
(19) The ciliary beat was observed via an inverted phase contrast microscope (Zeiss Axiomat IDPC) and measured microphotometrically under physiological conditions and after the damaging influence of 1% propanal solution.
(20) It is axiomatic, however, that prior to treatment of an individual patient it be known that blood pressure is consistently elevated.