Prospective foster parents were expected to sign up to a commitment to bring up the child "as one of my family", providing them with food, clothes, washing and schooling, as well as to "endeavour to train the said child in habits of truthfulness, obedience, personal cleanliness and industry".
As adults, the books that force us to question the truthfulness of our personal experiences are usually books that were written for adults.
Mr. Ray is right about that principle, and we have consistently favored vigorous inquiries into the president's personal and campaign finances and his truthfulness under oath.
They describe the person's care, wisdom, truthfulness and courage.
"His personal code began and ended with loyalty and truthfulness," Mr. Dolan said.
If Avedon's 1959 book, "Observations" (with text by Truman Capote), was, by and large, about the certainty of the self and that self's show-business finish or fake but felt truthfulness, Avedon's work in "Nothing Personal" was about the breakdown of that certainty; indeed, it was about the breakdown of the social structure Americans like Avedon had grown up in along with all those borrowed dogs.
Owen's script springs few surprises, but it has a truthfulness and compassion about it as it entwines personal morality with the moral choices of war and the human instinct to cling together in adversity.
How else can one explain the impact on other men's and women's personal lives and memories of quite banal advocacies for decency, for truthfulness, for absolute scruple in the handling of language, a good many of which closely reflect Wittgenstein's imitation of the later Tolstoy?
But truthfulness isn't the same as the truth.
Many people, she says, base assessments of truthfulness on irrelevant factors, such as personality or appearance.
