Sentence examples for false legends from inspiring English sources

There is a shot of a man reading Arts, with concentration on the headline "The French Cinema is Dying Under the Weight of False Legends".

There is a far greater danger lurking, which has been called "counter-knowledge". Counter-knowledge covers the propagation of false legends and conspiracy theories often used for political purposes or fundamentalist religious propaganda.

Those false "legends" spun by Wallison and his friends conveniently hide Wall Street's culpability in our recent economic train wreck.

When it was later confirmed that TB 47 was a forgery, Irving published a letter to the editor in The Times on 7 July 1966 retracting his estimates, writing that he had "no interest in promoting or perpetuating false legends".

Sheer gobbledygook dreamed up at the drop of a hubcap; balderdash; false legends brought back to life for the umpteenth time – all based on these squishy or squashy or fleshy beings, as the other Apocrypha call them, or the Jellymen, who allegedly created us at one time out of wire and screws…".

Sheer gobbledygook dreamed up at the drop of a hubcap; balderdash; false legends brought back to life for the umpteenth time all based on these squishy or squashy or fleshy beings, as the other Apocrypha call them, or the Jellymen, who allegedly created us at one time out of wire and screws…".

Maybe this is how he would feel, eternally damned by a false legend.

Legend (probably a false legend) has it Iceland was named by some sneaky Vikings who, in a quest to keep it all to themselves, tried to hide the fact that their new settlement was actually a lush, green wonderland worthy of envy from the entire Nordic world.

Beginning with a quote from the communard Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray's (recently republished) History of the Paris Commune, warning against "false revolutionary legends", it turns those legends inside out.

True or false, legal legends do make effective debating points.

In Tokyo, carols and crosses are central to the show, though the urban legend of a department store that once had as the crowning glory of its Christmas exhibit a large cross with a beaming Santa nailed to it remains regrettably hard to substantiate.True or false, the legend points to the utter decontextualisation of Tokyo's Christmas.