Word: untruth
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...mythical radio turns to tragedy. A man is shot down by guards as he tries to pass the cheering news to a group of Jews bound for a concentration camp. In an attempt to redeem himself, Jacob confesses his deception. The letdown causes his best friend to hang himself. Untruth and truth-both come to seem equally false to Jacob...
...Wyatt Emmerich's April 11th review of Richard Dawkins's book, The Selfish Gene, is a masterpiece, even for The Crimson, of inaccuracy, purposeful misinterpretation, and downright untruth. Emmerich shows a profound ignorance of the book, evolutionary theory in general, and the aims and structures of the "sociobiological" camp...
Reason is not itself the source of truth, Henry believes, but rather an "instrument" given by God to discover the truth that God has communicated. Without reason, man "could never intelligibly discriminate God from the not-God, right from wrong, truth from untruth." Unlike many Evangelicals, Henry therefore insists that the Bible must be open to the tests of logical consistency and coherence...
...flat untruth. According to the American Bar Association, only half of U.S. lawyers earn less than $20,000 to $25,000 a year...
...years later. Repeatedly the author writes a scene that the reader is expected to follow in good faith, only to have Matthew, a chronic and helpless liar, admit that nothing of the sort ever happened. Then the incident is retold in terms of richer and yet more baroque untruth...