Jacoby, whose previous books include "The Age of American Unreason" and "Freethinkers," tries to deflate our obsession with longevity, which conceals, she argues, an irrefutable truth: extreme old age isn't easy.
In her latest jeremiad, "Never Say Die," she fights to slay the conspiracies of ignorance and greed that she believes conceal a single, and indeed irrefutable, truth: extreme old age can be nasty, brutish and long.
According to my friend, Bruce Bartlett, a highly informed, if jaundiced, observer, some "conservatives" (in truth, extreme radicals) think a federal default would be an effective way to bring public spending they detest under control [emphasis added].
The moralistic and aesthetic positions are extremes, and the truth is likely to be found somewhere between them.
At Extreme Rules, R-Truth interfered in the match, attacking Morrison and preventing him from winning the match.
Both are extremes, but one truth is that in our reality-TV generation, fans want to know the person behind the artist now more than ever before.
It's about a family cobbled together by liars, cons, grifters, impersonators, and protagonists whose family loyalty and personal integrity is matched — and sometimes beaten to a pulp — by their extreme flexibility with the truth.
Moreover, a hardware circuit is design and fabricated and its experimental results effectively verify the truth of extreme multistablity.
It is no more extreme and unconnected to truth than Cheney saying our President is working to make America less safe.
The sublime balance of beauty and terror, fear and obsession, past and present, sex and politics, humor and critique, line and color, surface and narrative speak to his appetite for emotional truth and extreme honesty in all things.
