Sentence examples for not without truth from inspiring English sources

"That's humorous but not without truth.

As his subtitle suggests, the author is enamored of the Wilson myth — it's a selling point, after all, and it's not without truth — but Carlin is too scrupulous to ignore more nuanced shadings and contradictions; his Wilson is both a victim, too fragile for this world, and a passive-aggressive manipulator, a man who, at times, willfully squandered his talent.

In trying to account for the way British newspapers sneered at her good intentions, he said: "My own and only explanation is that genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum". That remark may have been a bitter payback for the role Spencer believed the media, and the paparazzi who worked for them, played in Diana's death, but it was not without truth.

That perception is not entirely without truth - eventually, like Ronaldo's waistline, it all bloated out of all proportion - but the prevailing wisdom that the entire era was a disaster is a little dubious.

If both "necessarily P" and "possibly not-P" were without truth value, excluded middle would fail, since "possibly not-P or not-possibly not-P" would fail to be true.

Medieval logicians typically held that affirmative propositions with non-denoting subject terms are false, not meaningless or without truth value, as is sometimes held nowadays.

We want to get at the truth; you can't have justice without truth.

But the simile is not without elements of truth.

These statements -- like her assertion that during her college years "anyone famous who came to Bennington was provided with one or more Bennington girls" -- are false and still are not without a kind of truth.

But they are not without a kernel of truth: a century later, we are more receptive to his idea that the profit motive makes lawyers divide rather than reconcile people, or that the lucrative business of modern medicine often treats symptoms while ignoring the real causes of disease.

A world without truth isn't a world liberated from conflict; it's a world without the possibility of reconciliation.