Though Boston fans draw ire because they are viewed as particularly obnoxious, the truth is that, to fans of losing teams, fans of winning teams — any winning team — are all obnoxious.
"It can sound obnoxious to just state the truth," she says.
The truth is they were incredibly obnoxious, violent, mean-spirited human beings in terms of the way they interacted with one another and the way they absolutely did not care about anybody else in the building".
And then set off verbal fireworks with your friends or, better yet, enemies and obnoxious relatives by shooting down, Stossel-style, all of these untrue "truths".
Love of country can lead to forms of self-censorship that are as inimical to truth as the Pentagon restrictions that Mr. Cronkite and I both find obnoxious.
He is thin-skinned, melodramatic, petulant, impulsive, loud-mouthed, obnoxious, boastful, crude and shameless and, like many adolescents, he has at best a casual relationship with the truth.
The truth is that throughout the course of that weekend, to me, the exuberant fan appeared both enthusiastic and obnoxious -- and his behavior didn't change one bit.
He said that he admired the desire for truth, but that many papers do not have such restrictions because they recognize that unfettered political discourse — though sometimes obnoxious or factually wrong — is part of democracy.
To tell the truth, I find the whole notion of you, the ministry and even exam boards laying down the law about set texts fairly obnoxious.
