Sentences with phrase «elements of truth in»

For instance, merely saying that someone is a strict, authoritarian parent because he or she wasn't unconditionally loved as a child might have some elements of truth in it.

If this were totally accurate, then my presence here would be much less noticeable, but there are elements of truth in the artist's claim.

There's elements of truth in your comment, but I for one would politely decline an offer from these two galleries.

There are always elements of truth in each medium of art.

A variety of theories have been discussed over the years, and whilst there may be elements of truth in some of them, what we know today is there is absolutely no doubt that in order to grow muscle in a healthy way, you need to be prepared for slow gains and hard work.

Nevertheless, there are some elements of truth in the misperception.

I smell some elements of truth in it taken cognizance of how Hannah Tetteh discarded the official letters we sent to her.

I think there are small elements of truth in some of what you say.

But an unbiased observer might attribute enduring elements of truth in Hinduism and Buddhism to explain their history.

It is possible to see and actually have respectful two way conversations with people you disagree with and recognize there are elements of truth in both.

That's a joke, but there is always an element of truth in a jest.

What was the element of truth in such criticism?

By the way I agree that there is an element of truth in what you say about such wisdom, love lacking in Christian culture.

The element of truth in this view of the supernatural is the obvious fact that religious experience is only possible to beings with mental or spiritual capacities, i.e., to human beings.

There is an element of truth in what you say about the idea of a myth being preferred.

But there remains an element of truth in Tocqueville's observation.

While there is some element of truth in this, it is only so because Israel herself necessarily reflected in her earliest period the traits of the mythological origins from which she emerged.

There is an element of truth in reference to the Episcopals and the Deity issue.

There's an element of truth in these assessments.

There is an element of truth in this statement, but it does not go far enough.

Season Ticket Holder, are you trying to kid us or there is element of truth in your comment?

An element of truth in that.

However the only response that the club, e.g. G&S, will make is «yes, maybe we got carried away and promised too much, but we did so because we're fans» and to be fair I'm sure there is an element of truth in that.

Perhaps there was an element of truth in this, and he has history, but I agree with our manager who doesn't believe it was clear cut.

Others say that it is not the manager but the players that need to take responsibility but even if there is an element of truth in that I would ask who is responsible for selecting, organising and motivating the players other than the manager and coaching staff?

It will never go away because there is an element of truth in it!

There's an element of truth in the rationale that Jaguar is slowly building its name back to relevance after years of toiling in mediocrity.

There may be some element of truth in the theory, but it's a fairly weak excuse for holding back digital distribution.

I'm not going to do searches for you to see if I can find some element of truth in your claims.

There may be an element of truth in some of the predictions made from those cherry - picked temperature data, but so far I haven't seen any.

You know, the key to good comedy is that there has to be an element of truth in it.

Doubtless there is an element of truth in both views but I hope that if I search extensively, I'll find a more positive analysis.

While grossly disparaging, there is a small element of truth in these comments.

Plus, every good myth always has that little element of truth in it that makes it hard to question its validity.

One of the great stereotypes made about millennials is that we're afraid to be proactive and pick up the phone — and there's certainly an element of truth in that.

Carol, there's an element of truth in that old axiom.

Not exact matches

«As business leaders seek to improve the impact of marketing and sales spend in 2016, this new study reveals powerful truths about a fundamental and often misunderstood element of their strategy — understanding the buyers they serve.

As in all biting humor it contains an element of truth.

Religious conviction is not something outside society; it is part of society's inner core: «Religion is not a separate area marked off from society... [but] a natural element within society, constantly recalling the vertical dimension: attentive listening to God as the condition for seeking the common good, for seeking justice and reconciliation in the truth.»

When James characterized «reality» as made up of eaches and suches, of concrete particular facts and abstract relational concepts, he added a third element: «the whole body of other truths already in our possession» (P 96), the «ancient stock» of truths I have called our «social canon.»

In Holloway's perspective the truths of modern science do not corrode the truth of Revelation nor do they add new elements to Revelation.

But here was someone who would spend three to four hours saying the breviary, who counselled an element of mortification in one's life, and who relentlessly examined his own thoughts and actions in the light of God's truth.

Is it not an element in Christian belief that in the Passion of Christ precisely that marriage of truth and justice with mercy which Professor Wisdom seems to desiderate was achieved?

Its first effect is the removal of the stress of acquisitive feeling arising from the soul's preoccupation with itself «55 This element excludes the pursuit of beauty and truth, art and adventure in hungry egotism and so involves the transcendence of the self.

«49 Now the Whiteheadian reflection moves to the level of life and action and now calls on «those exceptional elements in our consciousness «50 as we build a civilization of art, truth, beauty, and adventure.

«It's really meant to be entertainment and fun, and it adds an element of biblical truth in it.»

This Church, constituted and organized in the world as a society, subsists in the Catholic Church, which is governed by the successor of Peter and by the Bishops in communion with him, although many elements of sanctification and of truth are found outside of its visible structure.

In fact, the most essential elements of the postmodernist perspective are hostile to the fundamental truth - claims of Scripture, and for that reason, I would argue that a postmodernist mind - set involves some positively sinful ways of thinking.

But the universality of Jesus, they have urged, does not establish itself in the world through the obliteration of whatever elements of light and truth have already been granted to the nations of the world.

In particular, the denial that epistemology is wholly prior to ontology; the denial that we can have an absolutely certain starting point; the idea that those elements of experience thought by most people to be primitive givens are in fact physiologically, personally, and socially constructed; the idea that all of our descriptions of our observations involve culturally conditioned interpretations; the idea that our interpretations, and the focus of our conscious attention, are conditioned by our purposes; the idea that the so - called scientific method does not guarantee neutral, purely objective, truths; and the idea that most of our ideas do not correspond to things beyond ourselves in any simple, straightforward way (for example, red as we see it does not exist in the «red brick» itselfIn particular, the denial that epistemology is wholly prior to ontology; the denial that we can have an absolutely certain starting point; the idea that those elements of experience thought by most people to be primitive givens are in fact physiologically, personally, and socially constructed; the idea that all of our descriptions of our observations involve culturally conditioned interpretations; the idea that our interpretations, and the focus of our conscious attention, are conditioned by our purposes; the idea that the so - called scientific method does not guarantee neutral, purely objective, truths; and the idea that most of our ideas do not correspond to things beyond ourselves in any simple, straightforward way (for example, red as we see it does not exist in the «red brick» itselfin fact physiologically, personally, and socially constructed; the idea that all of our descriptions of our observations involve culturally conditioned interpretations; the idea that our interpretations, and the focus of our conscious attention, are conditioned by our purposes; the idea that the so - called scientific method does not guarantee neutral, purely objective, truths; and the idea that most of our ideas do not correspond to things beyond ourselves in any simple, straightforward way (for example, red as we see it does not exist in the «red brick» itselfin any simple, straightforward way (for example, red as we see it does not exist in the «red brick» itselfin the «red brick» itself).