Falsehoods Sentence Examples

Your argument otherwise is to repeat falsehoods, seeming to imagine that through repetition they will come true.

The most blatant falsehoods are in respect of temporal structure.

There are two widespread falsehoods that are often used to justify the " debt overhang " assumption.

Once Madame Roland appeared personally in the Assembly to repel the falsehoods of an accuser, and her ease and dignity evoked enthusiasm and compelled acquittal.

Sri Krishna had indeed uttered falsehoods so many times, had broken his pledges, had wives and even ` married ' 16,000 ladies !

Adults, on the other hand, have years of experience with telling falsehoods, and most have learned how to tell lies quite efficiently without any real fear of being discovered.

These crude ideas of Cromwell's character were extinguished by Macaulay's irresistible logic, by the publication of Cromwell's letters by Carlyle in 1845, which showed Cromwell clearly to be "not a man of falsehoods, but a man of truth"; and by Gardiner, whom, however, it is somewhat difficult to follow when he represents Cromwell as "a typical Englishman."

These show that the very few facts known with certainty were freely supplemented by a number of ill-founded conjectures, and sometimes even by " figments and falsehoods, which in the earliest times, no less than nowadays, used to be put forth by raw smatterers and copyists to be swallowed of men."

De Quincey has said that the book is equally divided between "empty truisms and time-serving Dutch falsehoods."

Ibn 'Abbas, a cousin of Mahomet, and the chief source of the traditional exegesis of the Koran, has, on theological and other grounds, given currency to a number of falsehoods; and at least some of his pupils have emulated his example.

But if they venture on such falsehoods while I am still alive, how much more when I am gone will those who come after me dare to do so!"

I don't want to appear deliberately argumentative, but there are falsehoods in that statement.

So a religious school teaching young-earth creationism or other demonstrable falsehoods would be bad.

This is the reason for the governments pack of fantastic lies - which are daily being exposed as cynically manipulated falsehoods.