If Dell [executives] were truthful about this issue, they would say this is a segment where they just can't compete because they don't have the best product.
As a journalist she has disentangled too many botched and elided memories not to know that "this was" must always be less truthful than "this may have been".
They were about: Is this the truthful description of this moment?" One truth, Ms. Bier said, that Mr. Del Toro succeeds in conveying through his character in "Things We Lost in the Fire" is that drugs are not glamorous.
And faced with incompetence, social norms prevent most people from blurting out "You stink!" -- truthful though this assessment may be.
She's trying to connect with something truthful in this culture that's basically designed to just sell you things".
But how much more urgently truthful is this than the standard artist's statement, which overflows with regurgitated cliches and pretentious, pseudointellectual guff?
I am hugely impressed by the level of unaffected honesty the young people write with and it's inspiring me to be even more truthful in this column.
