Sentences with phrase «larger than the truth»

But seriously, the hype is larger than the truth.

Not exact matches

The good news about this truth is that, in comparison to simple mental horsepower, which is larger set at birth, it's far easier to «get smarter» about emotions than it is to just «get smarter» generally.

The truth is, you should be more interested in a small, highly engaged community than a large follower or fan count.

I believe the financial industry has now become more about what a select few with large distribution networks think than what actually is the truth.

Just so you know, as soon as I stumbled upon this particular toon, I subscribed for your RSS feed and followed you on Twitter right away I just love how despite the simplicity & minimalism of the toons (which btw, I really adore), you communicate larger - than - life truths.

Moreover, it stands to reason that if something is true for the world at large, that truth should surely have been discovered by more than one community in isolation.

I also believe the fact that they comprise a much larger segment of history than humans do, and that it is insane that they would have been left out of the bible if it were really the «truth» passed on by an all knowing god.

Now, the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services reports, «a large number of violent offenders are serving two, three or four times longer under truth - in - sentencing than criminals who committed similar offenses under the parole system.»

Such efforts give the lie to what is accurately described as the racist slander that black Americans are incorrigibly incapable of facing the truth about their situation, are perpetually parasitic on the larger society, and have no other strategy than to exploit white guilt in order to continue the free ride that blacks are getting on the wagon that others pull (to use Senator Phil Gramm's ugly image).

To place this piece of steel in a place of prominence, to hang on it all of the emotional response, all of the tears and gut - wrenching loss of a large number of people who believe, without also acknowledging the other faiths, and those of no faith, who lost their lives, does, in fact, send the message that this was US vs THEM, Islam against Christianity, rather than the truth... that it was an attack against US, the United States of America, melting pot that we are... at least that's the way I see it.

But the possibly unappetizing truth is that the memorial complex you've just explored fails to resolve into an entity larger than the sum of its parts.

To a large degree, the message of the incarnation is found in its medium; revelation is more a matter of action than of propositional truth.

And as soon as identity is understood as sexual rather than social, oppression becomes a psychological category, truth can be supplanted by taste, and political power becomes to a large extent the ability to manipulate aesthetics.

The German universities expressed less opposition to the growth of Nazism in the 1930's than did the churches and labor unions; their failure at this point has been attributed in large part to their neutral pursuit of truth without concern for the life of the nation.14 By contrast, an example of intellectual responsibility occurred a few years ago when the University of Chicago was building a new cancer research hospital.

I guess living in make - believe land is easier than trying to face the truth of the Universe, but to see such a large number of people deluded into «praying» to nonexistent gods simply reaffirms the viewpoint that the greatest promoter of ignorance is religion.

Many of us can argue «scripture» with the best of them... but believe truth is larger than the bible.

-- but the truth is you need little more than a large pot, a dish towel, a jar lifter, and, okay, boiling water to preserve like your great - grandmother did.

Glad also to have the truth of what I was saying about percentage, 88 % on larger fan polls than this one, wanting him out, is confirmed.

But it's also worth remembering a larger truth: Carlos Gomez is still probably a slightly better baseball player than Yoenis Cespedes.

Fans still long for the larger - than - life college football coach, the gridiron god epitomized by Bear Bryant, but the truth is that his like will never be seen again

I would not be surprised to see less people than there were against WBA, but the truth is we need a large message that would be so big, it could be seen from the skies!

Truthful tweets took six times as long as fake ones to spread to 1500 people across Twitter — in large part because falsehoods were 70 per cent more likely to be retweeted than the truth, even after accounting for the posters» account age, activity level and number of followers (Science, doi.org/gc3jt6).

A year later, now more than ever, the dynamism of women to be at once loud, proud, and less afraid to speak our truths, and simultaneously soft, healing, and nurturing is taking shape and changing the way we think about ourselves and the perception of women at large.

Truth: A recent study found that women on very low - fat diets (less than 20 %) had the same rate of breast cancer as women who consumed large amounts of fat.

Rather than rehearsing legal arguments about why the Lovings» marriage was no less deserving of recognition than any other couple's, Nichols shows us the truth of that statement in their domestic lives, the small courtesies and large sacrifices they share.

But the truth is, a shockingly large share of graduating high - school seniors are not prepared to go to college — more than half, by some estimates.

Truth being stranger than fiction, the Morgan Motor Company is officially the largest British - owned carmaker in Britain.

The truth is that Flannery's non-fiction has had a much larger influence on my work than her fiction.

It is, or should be, as reliable as the most reliable reportage although it seeks a larger truth [my italics] than is possible through a mere compilation of verifiable facts, the use of direct quotation and the adherence to the rigid organizational style of the old form.»

Regardless of the truth to this opinion, the reality is that the political arena is, for the most part, fought on a much larger scale than the individual worlds we live in.

The truth of the matter is that in recent years, a larger portion of book sales has been coming from online book retailers than from brick and mortar locations.

The bold, splendidly large building complete with a dominating clock tower houses a small museum, which in truth is far less exciting than the actual building itself.

In blunt terms because the games were programmed for the PS3 not the PS4 that means recoding on a much larger scale than what Microsoft would have to do to run simulation Xbox360 processing on the Xbox one... That is just the blunt truth... and Sony knows that, that's why they shifted resources to make more ps4 built games than concentrating on Backwsrds compability..

I use the term «particular pictorial truth» because, of the dozen, mostly large - scale paintings on display — other than a pair of deliberately coupled (on the part of the curator) canvases from the 1990s — no two are alike.

:: We Can Solve It Al Gore Al Gore Readies Sequel to «An Inconvenient Truth» Al Gore Announces Big Climate Change Ad Campaign Climate Change Climate Change Melting Glaciers, Shrinking Harvests in China and India Global Warming Changes to Snowmelt Patterns in Western US Could Have Larger Impact Than Previously Thought Renewable Energy Solar Power to Reach Parity by 2015, New Study Claims Second Siemens Wind Turbine Plant to Open in Illinois

«I'm prepared to accept whatever result they produce, even if it proves my premise wrong... the method isn't the madness that we've seen from NOAA, NCDC, GISS, and CRU... That lack of strings attached to funding, plus the broad mix of people involved especially those who have previous experience in handling large data sets gives me greater confidence in the result being closer to a bona fide ground truth than anything we've seen yet.

Truth n ° 14 The outgoing longwave radiation from the upper atmosphere is larger than what models say: there is no «blanket» effect du to Greenhouse gases

However, the truth is that the total amount of heat that is going into the ocean, instead of the atmosphere or other places, was thought to be large, is still known to be large, and in fact is larger than we were originally thinking (from these papers and several others that have come out recently).

Tasked with assessing a large financial institution's liability in a money laundering investigation, Swiss FTS needed to reveal the truth surrounding more than 300 account managers and approximately 300,000 transactions.

The truth was that she and her client were caught up in something larger and more dangerous than a simple fuss about a vested remainder and a forlorn measuring life.

Throughout this sordid affair I had the distinct impression that the RECO employees involved in the matter were less interested in finding the truth than they were in extracting a large fine from Helmut.

While baby boomers love to take every opportunity to call millennials lazy, the truth of the matter is that we spend more time focusing on education, have more student debt than ever and spend a good deal of our 20s traveling or living in larger cities.