McCarthy learned the value of the half-truth and innuendo early on in his career.
The two brothers of the inconsistent dualist are also each telling exactly a half-truth.
Actually, saying that Elam has traversed the pre-NFL Draft landscape by himself is not even a half-truth.
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Concerning Governor Haley, you state she was telling a half-truth by not pointing out the blazingly obvious fact that the tires are for cars?
Indeed, the pair show that any set of self-referential sentences that assert complete truth or falsity about one another are exactly half-true. (Though other solutions are possible as well.) Other fractional truth-values arise when the sentences themselves make fuzzy assertions.
They are bleached clean by the truth -- and pretty quickly, given half a chance.
Such half-truths are a pernicious way of lying because the whole truth is being hidden under a pretense of honesty.
It has been said over centuries that rumour gets half way round the world before truth can put its shoes on - and that was way before the internet, and the ability to send rumour sprinting at the click of a mouse.
Afterward, Bartholomew told himself that what had occurred must surely be no more than a mood of petulance, an eruption from his half-stifled impatience with the embroidery and frills that dressed the simplicity of truth, with the invasive, sentimental stories that somehow made faith easier, and the hymns he hated.
The vineyard is on a quarter-square-mile of leased land 4, 300 feet above sea level, east of the Rio Grande near Truth or Consequences, a two-and-a-half-hour drive south from Albuquerque.
The impolite truth is that Robert Forster was The Go-Between's lesser half.
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