Sentence examples for a drop of truth from inspiring English sources

Liberal humanism, as much as it is a theory, is a style — even, at moments, a look, an appearance — of openness turned inward, social tolerance, geniality writ large; my naïve instinct that the civilized spirit was represented by Castiglione's smile had a drop of truth in it.

Or if it couldn't be a drop of "truth" per se, a drop of truth-flavored falsehood.

Or if it couldn't be a drop of "truth" per se, a drop of truth-flavored falsehood. .

Perhaps in a convoluted way this has a drop of truth in it.

Or if it couldn't be "true," something adjacent to a concept with a drop of truth in it.

Or if it couldn't be "true," something adjacent to a concept with a drop of truth in it.

The result has been a shift in the balance between the duty of a scientist to wring every last drop of truth and credibility out of the data he or she might have spent years gathering and the rights of the rest of us to know what our tax dollars have discovered.

For example, Calvin once wrote, "I have had much conversation with many Jews: I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness – nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew".

Not a drop of ouzo.

Just a drop of purple blood.

Newspapers hardly wasted a drop of ink.