Sentence examples for upon the truth from inspiring English sources

Unlike Aitken, the human corkscrew, Clinton strikes me as a fabulist; one who invents stories to improve upon the truth.

Moore has hit upon the truth: while film-makers continue to remake remakes, we're being deprived of a contemporary, nuanced vision of our lives.

Mitchell told this story only after Gould's death, in a second Profile, called "Joe Gould's Secret": I knew as well as I knew anything that I had blundered upon the truth about the Oral History.

Others might have interpreted this vision differently, but Ms. Bolbach insisted that she had hit upon the truth -- and that she had even been vindicated by the man's friends.

More often than not you stumble upon the truth in the dark, colliding with it or just glimpsing an image or a shape which seems to correspond with the truth, often without realising that you have done so.

Anaïs Nin perhaps hit upon the truth when she wrote of her tempestuous relationship with Henry Miller: "At the core of us is a writer, not a human being".

Logical connectives, such as disjunction (symbolized ∨, for "or") and negation (symbolized ∼), can be thought of as truth-functions, because the truth-value of a compound proposition is a function of, or a quantity dependent upon, the truth-values of its component parts.

In the third essay, Nietzsche focusses upon the truth-oriented ascetic ideals that underlie and inform prevailing styles of art, religion and philosophy, and he offers a particularly scathing critique of the priesthood: the priests are allegedly a group of weak people who shepherd even weaker people as a way to experience power for themselves.

It's what Jürgen Habermas has called the difference between the secular discourse that claims to be accessible to all men and the religious discourse that is dependent upon the truths of revelation.

As William McNeil wrote, "It was the failure of Europeans to agree upon the truths of religion, within as well as across state boundaries, that opened the door to secularism and modern science".18.18

Let your friends know that you can be relied upon to tell the truth and to not gossip behind their backs.