So that the unofficial rules of the political parlor game trumps any sustained truth-telling about what really matters.
Timelessness is not always an empty cliché; sometimes, as the ninety-year-old Picasso knew when he reached toward Rembrandt as a tonic against extinction, it is full of sustaining truth.
Journalists write to support democracy, sustain truth, salute justice, justify expenses, see the world and make a living, but to satisfactorily do any of these things you have to have readers.
The aim is to convert the larger audience, the stronger presence as the sustaining truth.
It is a paradoxical -- and sustaining -- truth of civilized life that even as we can't go on, we must go on.
Knowledge alone cannot improve the individual – God, who sustains all truth, is a requirement, and this is an idea that alienates many readers.
Here's how you stop this: Use every opportunity to call out #FakeNews and help one another recognize and sustain the truth about what is happening.
The dynamics that sustain this truth-telling dimension of the "pretense of knowledge"—the rights and wrongs of government action and, increasingly (I will come back to this), of all actions are thus not simply internal to the discipline.
This human truth has sustained societies around the world and down the ages.
Perhaps because the process for achieving knowledge of fundamental truths requires sustained, systematic doubt, Descartes indicates that such doubt should be undertaken only once in the course of a life (7:18; 3 695).
The suspense generated by the possibility of his volatile uncle learning the awful truth sustains the trajectory of "Lionel Asbo" from one close call to the next.
