When used in cases that are out of the ordinary, or in the absence of the background required to sustain the statement of truths or falsehoods, words might in that sense fail us.
PARIS — At the time, the remark was widely seen as a quixotic outburst, more a pol jousting at a windmill, perhaps after a bad night's sleep, than the statement of an uncomfortable truth.
If the human Yahoos were really such evil-smelling monsters as Gulliver's Houyhnhnm hosts claim, then Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726) would not be a satire but the statement of a deplorable truth.
He was plucked from the political arena after making a resounding, if obvious, statement of truth at the Rivonia trial, which was reiterated endlessly on his behalf during his imprisonment.
"The guy had the eye," says Lockwood, a simplistic statement of truth.
Most of the time, it is a statement of truth.
This mutual incompatibility reflects the fact that every theory in science, even the best, is not an eternal statement of truth about nature.
That's not hyperbole, just a statement of truth.
Accident Exchange, which brought a private prosecution for contempt, estimated that 30,000 cases were affected by the defendants signing false statements of truth after making rates reports.
