Sentence examples for lasting truth from inspiring English sources
While there will always be new ideas, platforms, services and devices, one lasting truth is that people only have a short attention span when they're bored.
If the Tour followed a different script from the one that might have been hoped for, that validates cycling's lasting truth: this is a sport of the open road and there is only a certain extent to which it can be stage-managed and "made for television".
But for deep, lasting truths?
But in his last, "Truth and Truthfulness" (2002), he sought to speak plainly, and took on the post-modern, politically correct notion that truth is merely relative, particularly as it is expressed in the work of by his former colleague Richard Rorty, who argues that truth is dispensable and that its pursuit is a form of substitute religion and as such a delusion.
"At very long last, truth and love have defeated lies and hatred," he said.
Kerouac's time on the mountain was a literal and figurative apex for him, his last truth-seeking adventure before he was transformed by the hostile media into first a caricature of himself, and later a shadow.
The truth is lasting and positive personal change is also hard to come by, even when you want it.
The scientific revolution of the early 20th century, brought about by, for instance, the advent of Relativity Theory and Quantum Mechanics and the loss of faith in lasting religious or political truths (Marxism in particular), as well as the failure of foundationalist philosophical programs have been used in arguments to vindicate relativistic views (for relativism about science see §4.4.3).
That Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) was a portrait painter first to last is a truth often neglected but brilliantly restated at the National Gallery in a series of spectacular loans.
Knowing the tsetse fly doesn't live in India, I wondered if at last the truth might be coming out when she confided in me one day, "They tried to make out it was suicide, you know".
