Sentence examples for strict truth from inspiring English sources

When, if ever, do the interests of story take precedence over strict truth?

In a book published last month, Sarkozy wrote: "It will no doubt be hard to believe, but I swear it is the strict truth: I knew nothing about this company until the scandal broke".

While the media savvy appreciate that these titles are too partisan to concern themselves overly with the strict truth, and are even given to occasional bursts of silliness, you cannot overstate the osmotic force of a full frontal assault on this scale to shape perception.

In one of the most magnificent of the Kelly series, Ned rides off over a flat clay pan towards a distant fringe of scrubby trees, in a landscape that seems more marginal than the one that in strict truth he inhabited.

Lawrence confessed that "little of his book was strict truth though most of it was based on fact".

Lord Norwich's verdict: that "whatever liberties Shakespeare might take with strict historical truth, in the essentials he was almost invariably right".

To what extent Plato's life of Socrates keeps to strict biographical truth cannot now be ascertained (though the account of Socrates given by Plato's contemporary the soldier Xenophon, in his Memorabilia, suggests a reasonable faithfulness) and he does not offer a full-scale biography.

Boswell was the son of a dour Scottish judge, who instilled in him "a strict regard for truth" by giving him a "hearty beating" when he lied.

It is important to realize that all of these examples require strict adherence to truth.

Ironically, it is when those stricter standards of truth are applied that historical fiction looks most like lying.

"I am quite strict with telling the truth.