Sentence examples for biographical truth from inspiring English sources

How to achieve this essential biographical "truth"?

Among all Hollinghurst's sharply drawn characters, she best illustrates the biographical truth that sources can have a command equal to subjects.

This category offers a special kind of biographical truth: a life, reshaped by recollection, with all of recollection's conscious and unconscious omissions and distortions.

Formal autobiographies offer a special kind of biographical truth: a life, reshaped by recollection, with all of recollection's conscious and unconscious omissions and distortions.

Freud once warned off a prospective biographer, writing, "To be a biographer you must tie yourself up in lies, concealments, hypocrisies, false colorings, and even in hiding a lack of understanding, for biographical truth is not to be had".

The History of Richard III (written about 1513 in both an English and a Latin version) unfortunately remains unfinished; and it cannot meet the strict standards of biographical truth since, under the influence of classical historians, a third of the book consists of dialogue that is not recorded from life.

He wrote a tongue-in-cheek book of memoirs, featuring zero biographical truths, as far as I can tell, until mention of his wife on the acknowledgements page.

Based on the biographical book Truth and Duty by Mary Mapes, it tells the story of an award-winning CBS News journalist and of the risks she took to expose a story on the then president, George W Bush.

But these effects are achieved at the cost of biographical and historical truth.

Only explicitly public information was used as ground truth (biographical text, locations) and no private information of any user was predicted as part of this research.

He published a volume of stimulating essays, Lachende Wahrheiten (1898; Laughing Truths), and biographical works of charm, including Meine frühesten Erlebnisse (1914; "My Earliest Experiences").