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Example sentences for: dictum

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If, however, you see this cloud becoming blacker over time, then follow Prudie's dictum of "See no evil, Hear no evil, Date no evil."
But he did disprove, for an unimportant but magnificent moment, W. H. Auden's dictum that poetry makes nothing happen.
The likes of Erich Korngold ( The Adventures of Robin Hood , Anthony Adverse ) and Bernard Herrmann ( Citizen Kane , Psycho ) never stopped pressing their noses to the windows of the concert hall, bitter at the unwritten dictum, "No movie hacks need apply."
Jeff--brilliantly fulfilling the ancient journalistic dictum "Sell every piece three times"--has argued in the New Republic , the New York Times , and this week in Time magazine that Clinton's troubles are due to catastrophic defects in the sexual-harassment and special-prosecutor laws (with help from Clinton's own misbehavior, he always is careful to add).
It would be a waste of time to go through the editions noting the differences: in most cases, the editors followed the wise dictum, “If it ain't broke, don't fix it,” so little has been done to the basic information in the original edition.