To receive and to deliver any message accurately requires a certain truthfulness in perception and in speech of which this unfortunate creature is entirely devoid.
While it is a fact that the intoxicated man will blab many things which were best kept concealed, there is nothing which deteriorates truthfulness so rapidly as the use of alcohol.
His grace, the prevalence of His intercession, the fulness and glory and truthfulness of His promises?
What will there be for the world to believe, if it loses faith in the truthfulness of the papers?
The homely truthfulness of his art, though it may occasionally result in details somewhat shocking to the reverent mind, was, nevertheless, well adapted to set forth the humanising side of Scripture incidents.
We should rather say that Hogarth was the first English artist who forsook exhausted conventionalities for large truthfulness and original thought, and thus paved the way to a new life in art.
His eleven illustrations of "Peregrine Pickle" appeared in 1781, and are excellent examples of his truthfulness and grace.
His truthfulness in reading nature, whether in naval battle scenes, views of foreign sea-ports, or mountain and river scenery, has seldom if ever been surpassed.
Devoting himself to landscape, and assisted by John Varley, Cox soon became one of the most eminent artists of his school, remarkable for the truthfulness of his colouring, the purity and brilliancy of the light in his pictures.
Now do not begin to batter me with that aggressive truthfulness of yours.
In psychology Russian writers are greatly helped by their own exceeding truthfulness and candour.
But not only does this type of life lack complete power and truthfulness in regard to mankind as a whole; it is subject to similar limitations in relation to the world and to things.
With such feelings it may come to be considered a great deliverance to shake off the whole, and a necessary step towards truthfulness of life to eliminate every aspect of that mode of life which through custom or authority continues to exist.
Once, at his desk, brooding over what had happened, his whipping instinct of truthfulness roused a sudden, frantic impulse in him to go home and confess to Eleanor, and ask her to forgive him.
Your intentions are doubtless excellent, but your truthfulness leaves something to be desired: 'Years won't make any difference'?
At first, this bleak truthfulness was only momentary.
The prevalent custom of French composers to build upon French traditions, but to allow German truthfulness of expression and interpretation to dominate their works was consistently followed by Bizet.
BIZET followed the prevalent custom of building upon French traditions, enhanced by German truthfulness of expression and interpretation.
A few local exceptions will not disprove the generaltruthfulness of this assertion.
Thousands of persons who never have seen a hunting cat in action will doubt this statement, but the proof of its truthfulness is only too painfully abundant.
Mr. Newman says, "Only by discerning that God has Virtues, similar in kind to human Virtues, do we know of his truthfulness and his goodness.
Now, I cannot but feel, on the other hand, that these narratives are as strikingly marked by all the usual indications of historic truthfulness as any historic writings in the world.
The following simple history of the narrative will, it is presumed, be sufficient to remove all scruples as to its truthfulness and reality.
It was a proof of truthfulness and sincerity and an evidence of spiritual feelings.
Truthfulness is the foundation of all the virtues of the world of humanity.
Thus, when the pedlar's statement is coupled with that of the Dehradun Brahmachari, there is, indeed, no room left for any doubt as to the truthfulness of either.
No, no: we will not test your truthfulness in that way.
When we were occasionally cornered, and driven in truthfulness to say that we were Yankees, our more intelligent interlocutors looked us over with roguish scrutiny, but increased rather than abated their courtesies.
Happily, quieter counsels prevailed, for there was no mistake as to the absolute truthfulness of what the girl had said.
The quality of truthfulness is not so easily defined.
The quality of truthfulness cannot be juggled with.
What is this quality of truthfulnesswhich we all recognize when it exists in fiction?
This quality of truthfulness is equally evident in "The Three Guardsmen" and in "Midsummer Night's Dream.
But when we carry the matter a step further, we see that there cannot be truthfulness about life without knowledge.
Truthfulness is a quality that needs to be as strongly insisted on in literature as simplicity.
Truthfulness is in no way opposed to invention or to the exercise of the imagination.
And John's character for truthfulness was so high (and even this was ever a reproach to him), that his word was instantly believed, and he was dismissed without any medical examination.
The novelist may be mistaken about his own creations and in his views of life, but if he have truthfulness in himself, sincerity will show in his work.
The general want which we perceive in modern furniture is simplicity of structure and truthfulness of construction.
Infinitely worse than the works just spoken of, is falsely constructed Gothic furniture, where the very truthfulness of structure is openly set before us.
Simple honesty is preferable to false show in all cases; truthfulness in utterance is always to be desired.
Be ever truthful, for truthfulness leads to righteousness, and righteousness leads to heaven.
Verily God recompenseth thetruthfulness of the truthful.
It was a generous and beautiful and well-deserved tribute to the memory of a truly great man, from whom the Christian nations of his times learned much of their chivalry and truthfulness to their pledged word.
But just as he was so strictly truthful to his word, he was equally severe in exacting the same truthfulness from his foes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "truthfulness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: actuality; credibility; fact; historicity; honesty; reality; sincerity; truth; veracity; verity
