Sentences with phrase «more apocryphal»

And then the stories become bigger and more apocryphal and eventually we just out and out lie.

As you can see from what we've written, Ghee is reputed to have many health benefits, some which seem to be based in scientific fact, and some that are of a more apocryphal nature; that is often the way when it comes down to alternative medicine cultures and natural product benefits.

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This apocryphal gospel is mentioned in patristic allusions, and has been more or less identified with a late and purely fanciful infancy narrative known for some time.

I heard someone suggest yesterday that certain apocryphal material was left out because it wasn't profitable for the faith... Just made me think there were a few more things that maybe shouldn't have made the cut... (besides the obvious that those negotiators of the 3rd century probably didn't really care about not making Jesus a misogynist...)

However, the use of «she» as a pronoun for the Holy Spirit is more than a matter of personal choice; such usage appears to have some theological possibilities, especially if serious attention is given to certain research on early Christian texts, apocryphal as well as canonical.

The fact that many apocryphal stories of Jesus doing miraculous acts as a boy were rejected by the church shows that for early Christians it was perhaps more important...

It's horrible that they were accused of something so serious that they didn't do, but that kind of «data» is purely apocryphal: all the evidence and studies points to women getting ignored and having their cases tossed far more than the reverse.

Only the apocryphal tale about a young George Washington seemed to inspire the kids to admit to peeking: Children who heard the tale in which the future first president is praised for confessing his transgression were three times more likely to tell the truth than their peers who heard other stories.

The story may be apocryphal, but to Charles Wohlforth it carries a ring of truth: For the lowdown on climate in the Arctic, he argues, it often makes more sense to consult the plainspoken wisdom of the indigenous Alaskans rather than rely exclusively on abstruse data gathered by well - meaning but often clueless scientists.

Perhaps it's telling that Manifesto's best segments extol the virtues of conceptual art, in which, as Lewitt - via - Blanchett puts it, the idea behind the work is far more important that its execution, and artistic appropriation, via the (probably apocryphal) Godard dictum, «It's not where you take things from; it's where you take them to.»

Yet the journal Nature gladly published their nebulous analyses and climate fear, and then Jenouvrier, Caswell and several climate scientists were using that apocryphal study to predict more catastrophic extinctions.