Word: factually
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Shorto, a journalist, skillfully lays out the anomalies, allusions and stylistic shifts that have caused a wide spectrum of scholars to see the Gospels less as factual truth than as a product of faith and early Christian politics. He also examines the recent archaeological finds that revved the debate. Detouring occasionally (describing, for instance, a DNA study of the goats whose parched skins were used for the Dead Sea Scrolls), he picks and chooses among the available theories to arrive at a kind of aggregate anti-Gospel...
...editorial "The Hill of Evil Counsel" (March 8) Mr. Adam J. Levitin provides a masterpiece of factual distortions and occasional convenient omissions. Levitin asserts that Israel is correct under international law to build anywhere in Jerusalem; he asks rhetorically: "What other nation in the world is criticized for building a new neighborhood in its capital...
...linkages that were virtually nonexistent before her arrival. The synergy and shared expertise that have resulted have been refreshing and invigorating, and I have heard many voices of appreciation for her open and cooperative style. The autocratic image you describe of Dean Kidd is a fiction. Many of your factual implications are likewise incorrect; for example, you well know that the move of HAND into Phillips Brooks House, so that the program could have a permanent location in better communication with the College public service staff, was envisioned long before Dean Kidd's appointment. Your argument against this move--that...
Because the film toes the line between a straight factual account and a dramatization based loosely on history, it struggles to reconcile the two extremes. As a result, like the book that engendered it, the film crosses many boundaries in terms of genre. Ultimately, it seems to lie on the documentary side of docudrama, because so much of it is based on truth...
...creating some binary opposition, have actually been shown, from studies conducted in Sweden and this country, to accelerate the acquisition of what is considered the standard language. Thus, Ms. Barenbaum's assertion that Ebonics is going to further stratify lower-income blacks is simple hypothesizing with no substantial factual corroboration...