Sentence examples for complete truthfulness from inspiring English sources
You look not for complete truthfulness, but for verisimilitude — the "appearance of being true" — so it can give your art authenticity, credibility, believability.
The Government alleged that, since the convictions, it had obtained evidence indicating that the defendants and a government official had given perjured testimony about the timeliness and complete truthfulness of the disclosures.
Another theory of the Court, which also departs from the Bram case, seems to be that there was a constructive withdrawal of the promised immunity because of the Court's findings that the defendants failed to comply with the promise's condition of complete truthfulness.
In his final completed book, Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy (2002), Williams identifies the two basic values of truth as accuracy and sincerity, and tries to address the gulf between the demand for truth and the doubt that any such thing exists.
Her defensiveness reminded many voters about their qualms over her truthfulness.
"It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!" By this time, Mr. Solzhenitsyn had completed his own massive attempt at truthfulness, "The Gulag Archipelago".
During the two years leading up to his diagnosis, my husband, a highly respected physician, struggled to communicate and complete work, left me in doubt about his truthfulness, accumulated debt I was unaware of and wrote a series of notes that I found bizarre and degrading.
But truthfulness isn't the same as the truth.
According to Tim Webb, the club's president and a surveyor from Double Springs, Ala., 173 members have completed 50 states (though the club does not verify claims, relying instead on the truthfulness of participants).
The other four major vows – truthfulness, non-stealing, non-possession and celibacy – are in fact extension of the first vow of complete nonviolence.
