Lapalissade

In a certain way our theory is so obvious that it appears to us as a “lapalissade”. The cell is a network of phospholipid membranes and one of their chief functions is to keep certain substrates and enzymes apart.

Despite their affection for Gavarni, they dismissed as a lapalissade his oft-repeated statement that science had killed the notion of God

His display of the virtues Dickens has popularized is a real fraud. Nothing can show that he wants to abide by them. That he only loves himself is a lapalissade.