Sentence examples for form of truth from inspiring English sources

For Clare, fiction is the highest form of truth, and this makes it almost impossible to trust her.

But the lived experience is on its way to becoming the superior and most veracious form of truth.

He wanted his poetry to transmute knowledge into a higher form of truth, and he believed in the necessity of systematic research before composition.

In their manifesto of 1886 the Symbolists suggested that subjectivity, spirituality, and mysterious internal forces represented a higher form of truth than the objective observation of appearances.

It has become a form of truth, he argued, progressively displacing the myths of bravery, courage and marvellous deeds that dominated previous eras and other cultures.

Back to Foucault, who says that the confessional is not a form of truth - not, as it might appear to be, a way of gaining redemption.

The two comedians have achieved a cross-racial following because they uphold the tradition of comedy as a form of truth-telling.

The prickly Mary, beautiful, always tanned, always angry, is Andra's spiritual heir: a rude, alcoholic young woman who imagines that her reflexive hostility is a form of truth-telling.

Satire — which has a long and refreshingly subversive history as a form of truth-telling and effective social commentary — is Mr. Franken's comparative advantage in his new job and he should exploit this blessing, not deny it.

A series of recent studies, focusing on students who inflate their grade-point average, suggests that such exaggeration is very different psychologically from other forms of truth twisting.

It is as if physics, which is so manifestly weird, is faintly embarrassing - almost like it was fiction itself, rather than one of the deepest forms of truth.