Sentence examples for partly truth from inspiring English sources

Her Leigh is, to borrow from Kris Kristofferson, a "walking contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction," who can't separate one from the other.

"Relapse" clings to the formula of its predecessors: it's partly truth and partly fiction, with personal revelations and sociopathic farce side by side.

The name was partly industry hype and partly truth.

In Taxi Driver, Cybill Shephard's blonde, Betsy, uses lyrics from a Kris Kristofferson song to describe Travis: "A prophet, a pusher, partly truth, partly fiction... a walking contradiction".

Partly, in truth, to conserve battery power.

It also, like most recipes in the book, has a backstory that is equal parts information and noir: "On first meeting, Tony told Frank, 'I'm not a cook.' It was only partly the truth".

All the stories about these channels being encrypted, turn out to be only partly the truth.

Why are the trains coming back empty?'" He agrees that for a long time after the war Germans suppressed the truth, partly through shame, partly because many members of the Nazi state had been redeployed in the state apparatus of both West and East Germany, and partly because the division of the country enabled each side to blame the other for the Nazis.

Each year, or so it seems, a new scandal erupts involving a story marketed as nonfiction when the narrative is, in truth, partly, or even mostly, made up.

So the confidence that allowed Khrushchev to quip and hector and shoe-bang his way across the world stage was founded partly on a truth about the present, partly on a profound mistake about the future.

The black filmmaker Tyler Perry has built his success partly on the truth that when audiences look up at the screen what they want to see are faces much like their own.