Sentence examples similar to palpable untruth from inspiring English sources
Five days later, the Washington Post ran a scathing article by national security correspondent George Lardner titled, "On the Set: Dallas in Wonderland" that used the first draft of the JFK screenplay to blast it for "the absurdities and palpable untruths in Garrison's book and Stone's rendition of it".
It is a word that is apparently thought capable, in its contemporary political usage, of isolating a palpable, possibly toxic untruth, sealing it up in an airtight bag, and disposing of it harmlessly.
The former Jimmy Carter speechwriter Hendrik Hertzberg, now a senior editor and staff writer at The New Yorker, wrote last month that misspeak "is a word that is apparently thought capable, in its contemporary political usage, of isolating a palpable, possibly toxic untruth, sealing it up in an airtight bag and disposing of it harmlessly".
He similarly refuses to be duped by the use of "misspoke" as a blanket get-out-of-jail-free card: "It is a word that is apparently thought capable... of isolating a palpable, possibly toxic untruth, sealing it up in an airtight bag and disposing of it harmlessly".
The untruth offended him.
That is a plain and obnoxious untruth.
— that she was telling an untruth.
