Sentence examples for like a truth from inspiring English sources

He has tried to mend fences with Stevenson, Crosby and Hornby – to no avail – and would like a truth and reconciliation commission to be set up.

That sounds like a truth worth dying for and it goes a bit further than religious dialogue.

He interviews his dying mother, who is on cortisone, which seems to work on her "like a truth serum".

It is onions or potatoes, a pinch of simple salt, the wealth of melting butter, it is obvious, it stays in the back of your throat like a truth you never uttered because the time was always wrong.

Therese downs her drink with fatalistic obedience, and it affects her like a truth potion: her voice rises "suddenly in a babble" as she tells Carol about her secret loneliness).

It took the United States' harsh elimination from the World Cup on Saturday to act like a truth serum in his apparently icy veins, but Bradley finally got around to saying something that was quite apparent throughout this World Cup: Michael Bradley is the hard man of this American squad.

And when, in despair, he demands of Nina, "Just tell me where the hell my soul is," before flying to St . Petersburgto retrieve it, he doesn't sound like a truth-seeker or a flake.

What looks like a truth-apt proposition with a complex structure is really playing a quite different role: it is not a proposition, but a kind of rule.

Likewise, if something looks like a truth-apt expression (since on the surface it is in the indicative mood), if it behaves logically like a truth-apt expression (which again is what "X is good" undoubtedly does), if it is treated by the people whose use sustains its meaning as if it were truth-apt, then, absent compelling arguments to the contrary, it probably is truth-apt.

John C. Liu, the comptroller, said he liked the idea of a truth commission.

This is partly just what love feels like, and partly a truth, since only the joining of male and female can bring a new soul into the world.