Her slangy style, combined with frequent solecisms and awkward sentences, sometimes seems untrue to Hawthorne's fastidious artistry and smooth Latinate diction.
The old story that his sudden decline was due to progressive syphilis now seems untrue — he is thought to have had a brain tumor — but the son must surely have suspected that his father died from venereal disease.
There is also a hint of sentimentality in Bennett's claim that figures such as the rent boy are marginalised when great men's lives are parcelled out for posterity: it seems especially untrue in the case of Britten when books have been devoted to his relationships.
Chomsky also argued that it seems plainly untrue that language learning depends on the application of reinforcement.
Its message may also seem untrue.
By the time I finished, the words at the beginning seemed untrue or melodramatic.
Coming from the pen of someone who in the past has compared homosexuality to murder, polygamy and animal abuse, and equated homosexuals with drug addicts and prostitutes, the claim not only seemed untrue, but also could be taken as a clinical sign of dissociation.
Coming from the pen of someone who in the past has compared homosexuality to murder, polygamy and animal abuse, and equated homosexuals with drug addicts and prostitutes, the claim not only seemed untrue but also could be taken as a clinical sign of dissociation.
If she were to assure the woman that her desires had no bearing on anyone living in that house, her denial would seem untrue and go unheard, because the woman saw her now as the man saw her, a figure fortified by her youth and by her appeal and by her future, a time when all that she would want of life might come about.
All these arguments seem untrue.
