The phrase "adherence to truth" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing honesty, integrity, or the importance of being truthful in various situations.
Example: "In journalism, adherence to truth is essential for maintaining credibility and trust with the audience."
Alternatives: "commitment to truth" or "devotion to honesty."
It was not that she was a liar, more, as Janet Malcolm put it, an "auto-fictionaliser". Like Mark Twain, she saw no need to spoil a story with a slavish adherence to truth.
Though the right berates the left for a politics based on empathy, their own strategy (or tendency, if you prefer not to tell conspiracy stories) is towards the colonisation of the public sphere by the presentation of feeling, instead of more traditional republican (and Republican) virtues such as moral rectitude, sincerity or adherence to truth.
Morality deals necessarily with what people do as persons, with what affects themselves as subjects who cannot step aside from the truth they know without violating their adherence to truth.
It is important to realize that all of these examples require strict adherence to truth.
In both examples, if the confrontation is based on adherence to truth (what Gandhi followers know as "satyagraha") and nonviolence ("ahimsa"), a transformation is possible.
Wisdom -- wrought by a reverence for history Care -- the result of an abiding, simple humility Sanity -- the consequence of an adherence to truth.
Think of another academic subject that forces young people, on a daily basis, to weigh – and experience – the impact of their decisions on others, and to put the adherence to the truth ahead of personal gain.
They agreed one day that "the two cardinal points of poetry" were "the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature" (Wordsworth's specialty, with his "host of golden daffodils") and "the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colors of imagination" (which Coleridge was especially good at).
Those who were involved in broadcasting during the cold war (I helped set up Radio Liberty in 1953) soon learned that an objective tone and absolute adherence to the truth were the only way to win the trust of our audiences.
It has two sections, one dealing with the Trinity and the other with the Incarnation; and it begins and ends with stern warnings that unswerving adherence to such truths is indispensable to salvation.
