Sentence examples for convenient truth from inspiring English sources

Call it a convenient truth.

Matteo Renzi, the Italian prime minister, has said Italy would not settle for "a convenient truth".

Staying married for the sake of the children was a convenient truth, and also a self-serving one.

For the peak oil advocates, the convenient truth is that de-carbonisation via renewables and nuclear is not only good for the climate, but sound economics too.

Peter Singer ("A Convenient Truth," Op-Ed, Jan . 26 supports subjecting "Ashley," a profoundly intellectually disabled girl, to surgical and hormonal interventions to keep her small.

A jury is much less likely to be convinced of the convenient truth of such a dissociative episode than an audience at Harvard Medical School.

Do you think the Tea Party is truly regressive, or simply willing to elide less convenient truths about American history (slavery, the role of women) for the sake of a good analogy?

A lawyer representing the trust of a deceased songwriter criticized members of Led Zeppelin for "selective" memories and "convenient" truths in testifying about the origin of Jimmy Page's acoustic guitar opening of the 1971 rock anthem.

Given how easy it is for us fallible humans to believe convenient truths, it is too enticing to interpret growth as validation instead of a mirage.

Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said last month that Italy would not accept "easy reconstructions and convenient truths".

Politics, supposed to help us make sense of the world, has sometimes been more hindrance than help: is climate change really an inconvenient truth, because it means we have to give up eating beef and taking long-distance flights, or a too-convenient truth for anti-capitalists who want to bring down the financial system?