Not exact matches
Some of the writing is clumsy and ponderous: «Gloria explained that I was
witnessing a
typical Bavarian scene and pointed out an interesting
fact...» Some is just a bit too pious.
Women were considered unreliable
witnesses at the time (a
fact that may explain why the apostle Paul omitted the women from the resurrection account entirely in his letter to the Corinthian church), so their proclamation of the good news was dismissed by the men as an «idle tale,» the type of silly gossip
typical of uneducated women.
A
typical case:
facts are in dispute, records are inconclusive or records do not exist and everything depends on the word of
witnesses who will not even be heard until trial.