Sentence examples for truthfulness as from inspiring English sources

In this Williams argues, against such deniers of the possibility or importance of objective truth as the pragmatist Richard Rorty and the deconstructionist Jacques Derrida, that it is indispensable to any human society to accept both truth and truthfulness as values, and sincerity and accuracy as corresponding virtues.

The portrait of Innocent X possesses that same truthfulness as the palsied picture of Philip IV.

"President Saddam Hussein will tolerate nothing but truthfulness, as he is a man of great honor and integrity".

On the contrary, her value to such movies lies in her truthfulness as a performer and interpreter.

A character recently returned from Paris tells Helen that Parisians disapprove of blunt truthfulness as "bien Anglaise".

Sadaqa, an Arabic word that could be translated as generosity, also means truthfulness, as in fidelity to the creator.

"It is true that" could be redundant because, strictly speaking, information is not a truth-bearer but already encapsulates truth as truthfulness.

None of them found close approximations for "truth" in the propositional sense in the cultures they studied, but all four said there were analogues for the terms associated with truth as "truthfulness" in the lexicons of the thinkers and traditions they worked with.

Sincerity claims (or "truthfulness claims," as it is sometimes translated) are the prime example.

In reality crime is as impossible to measure as truthfulness.

Many early novels, to distinguish themselves from romances and to stake their claim to truthfulness, present themselves as histories (in several languages, notably French and Icelandic, the words for "history" and "story" are the same - histoire and saga, respectively).