Sentences with phrase «something untrue as»

These examples of bullshit reinforce Frankfurt's point: It's not so much about saying something untrue as being unconcerned with the truth.

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They are accustomed to think of myth as something false or untrue rather than a poetic, imaginative attempt, through story, to explain things.

But basically under the new law, as I read it, the person who feels something bad has been written about him, has to show not only that the written statement is untrue, but also that it has done his reputation serious harm.

He interprets this as a «don't ask, don't tell» policy and promises us that he would «never write something untrue about a place, simply because they gave me a free room or a pasta.»

Santer's allegation is also untrue — something that Santer knew as well.

Even on something as simple as climate background of Lisa Graumlich and Kerry Emanuel, Oxburgh's statements to the committee were untrue.

Well, except that in 5 to 10 more years, the current embarrassment of non-increasing global temperatures may have become the terminal disease of actually decreasing global temperatures as we continue to ride the solar cycle down, and all of the people who are currently «embattled» but still viewed as being noble martyrs for a cause will be treated professionally as if they have a mix of Ebola and Leprosy, especially those that bent ethical rules in order to promote something untrue.

Come on, if something is «now as high» it means «previously it was not as high» but for these methane rises that is untrue.

Google still places importance on Page Rank (something that has been promoted by «SEO experts» as untrue.

In the US, moreover, you have to assert something literally untrue, not simply say something that could be interpreted as being untrue.