Sentence examples for inquiry into truth from inspiring English sources

The omniscient narrative nimbly shifts perspective among a small number of complex characters, to produce a Rashomon-like inquiry into truth and motive.

Fact and fiction orbit each other and sometimes collide in "The Last Time I Saw Macao," a sly, amusing if underconceptulized and needlessly elliptical inquiry into truth, memory and appearances from the Portuguese filmmakers João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata.

But because all inquiry into truth is historically and socially mediated, it is constantly open to adjustment.

Since all philosophy is an inquiry into truth, first philosophy is the knowledge of God, who is "the first truth and the cause of all truth".

Congressional hearings are not the place for truth to emerge, or even for a sustained inquiry into the truth.

"Congressional hearings are not the place for truth to emerge, or even for a sustained inquiry into the truth". From "The Right's New 'Welfare Queens': The Middle Class," by George Packer.

French Prosecutor Reportedly Holds Inquiry Into Vivendi.

Not so lucky the rest of society who are "blamed" because there is no judicial inquiry into the truth of most divorce petitions.

A sombre slow-burner about a police investigation that takes place largely by night, Ceylan's film unfolds at leisure to present us with a series of intimate character portraits and a philosophical inquiry into crime, truth and authority.

This question, it must be here observed, does not involve an inquiry into the truth of the specific facts recited in the order of commitment, as constituting the contempt.

In sum: Plato's suggestion is that rhetoric and sophistry are tied to substantive theses about the irrelevance of moral truth to the happy life; about the conventionality or relativity of morals; and about the irrelevance of the sort of inquiry into the truth of the matter (as distinguished from opinions or the results of polls) upon which Socrates keeps insisting.