Sentence examples for past truth from inspiring English sources

Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight.

Thoroughly trained in literature and philosophy, Sontag applied the standards of the past — truth, beauty, transcendence, spirituality — to the new art of the sixties, with its alienation, extremity, perversity.

His key roles have all been characters who are in some crucial way divided — between self-preservation and devotion, love and prejudice, future and past, truth and danger, friendship and betrayal.

By condemning actions of the past, truth commissions reassert the force of normative standards that have been violated, or establish new normative standards for conduct when the extant terms for a relationship are unjust or immoral (Walker 2010).

Ockham's answer was that even though God's foreknowledge is past, its content is future, and the past truth of future contingent propositions does not fall under the necessity of the past (Sent. I.38.1 (587), Tractatus de praedestinatione 515 516).

His successor Cleanthes (331 232) tried to solve the Master Argument by denying that every past truth is necessary and wrote books—now lost on paradoxes, dialectics, argument modes and predicates.

Her first adult novel, The Road to Lichfield (1977), in which past truths shift when viewed from a contemporary perspective, reflects her interest in history and in the kinds of evidence on which contemporary views of the past are based.

Moreover, while increasing selectivity suggests better students than in years past, in truth the most competitive applicants couldn't get more amazing if they levitated.

In science, the present confronts the past as truth confronts error; thus, for science, the past, even when important at all, is important only out of historical interest.

As I've said in the past, the truth about cocaine use in the City is far more mundane than the lurid fiction that exists.

Beyond those strategic failures, if you are going to tell a war story that sprints past the truth, it best not be about war.