"The sooner you learn that elementary fact, Willie, the better morale officer you'll be."

"I can't watch that," he added simply, as if he were commenting on some elementary fact.

That set union and intersection are indeed distributive in the above sense is an elementary fact.

Unless we are willing to face that elementary fact, we cannot talk seriously about the Vietnam war.

Not all of these elementary geometric facts are true in the 3-D context.

His words described elementary facts known even to acolytes.

There is no need to go into technical details, but those who are still unconvinced might like to consider these elementary facts.

Beyond these two elementary facts, we have not discovered anything.

"He is very good at identifying the potent elementary fact."

Even the most elementary facts of his life were obscure.