Sentence examples for ordinary truth from inspiring English sources

One ordinary truth yielded to a deeper one about joy and transcendence.

Rich and entertaining, this story celebrates the power of artifice and impersonation to transcend ordinary truth.

Jana Richman is the author of a memoir, "Riding in the Shadows of Saints," and two novels, including the forthcoming "The Ordinary Truth".

I've always thought of Melville's rhetoric as a bulwark against madness and suicide, a scrim through which he could face writing down thoughts and events that he considered sinful horrors and the essential and ordinary truth of life, as well as a mask behind which he could appear to the world as its bearer.

But what I think Kierkegaard meant was similar to another of his famously controversial theses, that "subjectivity is truth": what we value, what we love, what makes us who we are, does not exist in the world of ordinary truth and falsehood, of facts and objectivity.

One is the rejection of a "supertruth" above ordinary truth.

A consolation you could believe in would be one that wasn't in danger of popping like a soap bubble on contact with the ordinary truths about us.

For these sorts of reasons, some have suggested that ordinary truth-talk vacillates between using a weak and a strong notion of truth (see Field 1994b, McGee 2005).

But when the embedded sentence S is an ordinary empirical truth like 'Obama won', AS will be knowable only aposteriori: so AS will be a necessary aposteriori truth.

But when S is an ordinary empirical truth, the complex claim is not necessary in the sense of '□': there will be some worlds in the model where S is false while AS is true.

Admitting that she's "prone to hyperbolic storytelling," she also wonders, "Is it really so much more honorable to refuse to lean on those who love you?" After 459 pages (Long is the real hyperbolic storyteller), it's disappointing to hear such ordinary home truths offered up as startling new wisdom.