Toni Morrison really makes the reader question beauty, the pressure put on people to fit in with untrue ideas.
One reviewer for The Liberator asserted that the story was "terribly sad and painful," and that even if untrue in literal terms, "it would do admirable service for the Abolitionists" by inspiring antislavery sentiments among readers.
China has unveiled tough measures to stop the spread of what the government calls irresponsible rumours, threatening offenders with three years in jail if untrue posts online are widely reposted, drawing an angry response from Chinese internet users.
Under the barrage of those tweets identifying anything the Tweeter-in-Chief disagrees with as "fake" (let's just pick national news stories verified by multiple sources, including sworn testimony in congressional hearings as a recent example), it is easy to forget that there actually is news that is fake... as in made up... as in manufactured... as in patently untrue.
A senior US television anchor has taken himself off the air for "several days" after being forced to apologise and admit that a story he told about being in a helicopter that was struck by enemy fire in Iraq was untrue In a statement issued on Saturday, NBC's Brian Williams said that it had become clear that rather than reporting on the news, he had become a distracting news story.
Terry's defence, which he advanced in court, was untrue In Terry's criminal trial at Westminster magistrates court, the chief magistrate, Howard Riddle, had said Terry's defence was "unlikely" but raised enough doubt for an acquittal.
Friends also named in the untrue stories received £375,000.
Wood told Digger yesterday: "I have never made such statements, which are in fact untrue.
As in the (untrue) notion that every seven years the human body replaces all of the cells contained within it, the reconstituted Sugababes shambled on like a luxe-waved, Numan-sampling Darth Vader.
This was, in fact, untrue.
