Fossils also provide a measure of the passage of time.
But it did provide a measure of exercise.
"What he provided was a measure of truthfulness that is sorely lacking in politics in Canada today," said Reilly.
For Lukas, the upset provided a measure of vindication.
It provides a measure of relief and reassurance".
But the reaction to Studds provided a measure of relief.
I can only hope that my book, like Norbury's, will be a beguiling amalgam of personal anecdote, travelogue and family history, in which details from one woman's troubled life provide a documentary authenticity and truthfulness in the telling.
The reader knows, in other words, not to apply the traditional measure of truthfulness for judging a narrative; he or she suspends that judgment for a time, in a move that Samuel Taylor Coleridge popularized as "the willing suspension of disbelief," or "poetic faith".
Aristotle said that cultivating qualities (he called them "virtues") like prudence, reason, accommodation, compromise, moderation, wisdom, honesty, and truthfulness, among others, would enable us all to enter the discussions and conflicts between religion and ethics where differences exist with a measure of moderation and agreement.
The oral style of narration therefore provides a truthfulness which official history lacks.
