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?
Instead he tells the half-truth, the partial truth and everything but the truth -- and he does it not once, not twice, but over and over and over again.
Last week, readers of The Wall Street Journal were presented with a particularly insidious half-truth along with a lie in the form of an op-ed by University of Haifa professor and prominent Israeli intellectual Fania Oz-Salzberger.
That the process also debases and, perversely, distracts from the very serious issues associated with protecting our diplomats and our interests overseas is hardly important, it seems, to the political attack dogs whose appetites are so insatiable that any nutrition-free scrap of half-truth looks like a meal.
Insisting that they see the glass as half full may deny them the truth of what they know and the chance to tie up life's loose ends while there's still time.
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.
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.
The first half of this argument has a ring of truth.
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They are bleached clean by the truth -- and pretty quickly, given half a chance.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning PolitiFact website, which grades the accuracy of politicians' statements, gave the Obama campaign's accusation that "Mitt Romney's companies were pioneers in outsourcing U.S. jobs to low-wage countries" a "half-true" rating on the organization's Truth-O-Meter.
This half-serious summary of communist economics contained a kernel of truth: for Soviet workers, the freedom to pilfer and dawdle made up, to some extent, for empty shelves and wretched wages.
Such half-truths are a pernicious way of lying because the whole truth is being hidden under a pretense of honesty.
In truth, it was a largely disappointing game and the first half was particularly poor, with hardly any incidents of note.
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.
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.
"Hip hop is an art form speaks the truth about how people are living, " says Aldo Rodriguez, one half of Los Aldeanos.
The impolite truth is that Robert Forster was The Go-Between's lesser half.
During this 2:00 a.m. conversation, which lasted approximately half an hour, the president could have told Ms. Lewinsky that they must tell the truth under oath.
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