In this regard, the positive sense merely describes a truism.

It has become a truism of the Trump era that the political divisions that have polarised the US electorate have, on a micro scale, torn families apart.

And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.

NEW YORK Zimbabwe s election appears, once again, to confirm a truism Africa only seems to make international headlines when disasters strike a drought, a coup, a war, a genocide, or, as in the case of Robert Mugabe, grossly incompetent government. But, over the past several years, a number of sub Saharan countries have attracted unprecedented inflows of foreign capital.