Word: truth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...relation to the human mind may be scientifically sound but philosophically defective [Feb. 12]. Scientists like to break a rose, say, down to its atomic and subatomic particles. Likewise, they view consciousness as merely impulses within the brain. While this is sound science, it dismisses other routes to truth and meaning, such as philosophy, history and theology. The whole is greater than - or at least different from - the sum of its parts. Richard W. Metz Sanibel, Florida...
...final scene is tantalizingly ambiguous, either a miraculous resurrection or nothing more than 15 years of hiding. John Kuntz—formerly Autolycus—presides over the concluding action as the oracle of Apollo, becoming both a petty thief and a vehicle of divine truth. In “A Winter’s Tale,” deception—often the same as the ability to tell a convincing story—and divinity are not so different. In this production, one or the other may have been on display at a given moment...
...spiritual matter. "I never would have said that the ends justify the means," he says. "But I know that was in my heart--if lying helps save a baby's life, that glorifies God." He has read some pregnancy-center brochures that he suspects are maybe shading the truth in the name of a larger good. "This whole process has reminded me that Jesus is not a Machiavellian," he says. "It really helps me trust the sovereignty of God. He's in control of who lives and dies. My effort is to serve folks, and the means I use matter...
...life—worn linoleum, movie magazines, apple trees in bloom—becomes important to a person as she attempts to find her place in the world. It is, she says, a fictionalized family history and memoir that contains “more attention to the truth of a life than fiction usually does. But not enough to swear on.” The result has all the delicacy and richness that have made Munro’s work famous, though it’s not without its forgivable flaws.The book is divided into two parts, the first centering...
...change Franken's career. It made him a best-selling author, of Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right (a book whose subtitle cued Fox News to sue him, unsuccessfully of course, for appropriating the channel's catchphrase) and The Truth, With Jokes. In 2004 his passion to mobilize progressives against Bush's war, and for the election of a Democratic President, landed him the job as host of a daily, three-hour talk show on the new liberal network Air America Radio, where - for a time...