Sentence examples for defy the truth from inspiring English sources

The screenplay's most telling line, repeated more than once in the film, is taken from Goethe: "In order to be faithful to the truth, one must occasionally defy the truth".

The fracturing of Al Qaeda has reversed Bin Laden's signal achievement: defying the truth that all politics is local and focusing the efforts of the most extreme elements of Sunni Islamism on attacking the "far enemy," the United States.

KENNETH E. LITTLE'S topical paperback defies the seductive truth that it's better to sell a stock at 80 and buy it back at 40 than ride it all the way down.

Q: You know, I've come to think of that as being the fundamental gift of the humanities — to defy the idea that there is one truth.

Defy the matter.

Defy the law?

Appease the weak, defy the strong".

We chose to defy the law.

And that would defy the Constitution.

Some will want to defy the odds.

Will it defy the odds with Merrill Lynch ?