The critic's will is not to power, but to self-understanding, self-expression, truth.
Her favorite expression, "The truth with the intent to deceive is still a lie," is emblematic of her entire being.
But Ms. Rainer is not interested in a direct expression of truth or in fidelity to nature.
Michael Mansfield said that he hoped that the commission would "serve as an expression of truth and conscience by the people for the people.
A 2005 finalist for the Michael Kelly Award for the "fearless pursuit and expression of truth," Grann has also written for the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and the Wall Street Journal.
But how, if she is so filled with shame, could she have proposed marriage to Ames? There, I think, lies the secret of Lila, as a character: boldness, the perception and expression of truth, combined with a certainty, based on her past experience, that she will be cast aside.
In other words, while the ordinary magazines must minister to a large public little interested in poetry, this magazine will appeal to, and it may be hoped, will develop, a public primarily interested in poetry as an art, as the highest, most complete expression of truth and beauty".
Dialectic and demonstration, however, are directed towards the expression of truth.
Naya, being a partial expression of truth, enables us to comprehend reality part by part.
This was one of Turner's finest performances, and by that I do not intend to discredit the authenticity of her message; it is my belief that great theater (all great art really) is a heightened expression of truth.
