146 examples of falsity in sentences

He did not understand how Crewe expected to obtain any evidence at Riversbrook about the truth or falsity of Kemp's story, but he did not intend to admit that.

Her difficulty was with a sense of falsity.

I never saw such a complication of folly and falsity as in his letter to Mr. Gibson.

Discussions on some technicalities concerning the conditions of Michigan's admission gave Mr. Calhoun a chance for more argumentation about the sovereignty of a State, which, considering the fact that Michigan had not then been admitted but was awaiting the permission of Congress to be a State, showed the weakness of his logic in the falsity of his premise.

The falsity of the latter piece of news casts a doubt upon the verity of the former, because you are born to love as long as you live.

Up and down the hopes of men are tossed as they cleave the waves of baffling falsity: and a sure token of what shall come to pass hath never any man on the earth received from God: the divinations of things to come are blind.

The verdict, brutal and stupid as it is, shows the weakness and falsity of the state's charge more eloquently than anything the defense has ever said about it.

But this fundamental defect which I have stated, with all that it entails, gives rise to falsity, faithlessness, treachery, ingratitude, and so on.

It is impossible to prove either the falsity or truth of so general a remark, but it is easier to point out men who have been successful both at school and in life, than to find sufficient evidence that school and college prizes prevent further triumphs.

Notwithstanding this deliberateness of intention in his talk he is unconscious of falsity, for he has not enough of deep and lasting impression to find a contrast or diversity between his words and his thoughts.

"I had not a doubt of the falsity of the report," said Delwood; "but what can have given rise to such a statement?

She could not doubt that, though there were times when his true words and caresses suddenly seemed to wear a torturing falsity, as she thought of Isabel.

In order to deliverance from the original sin of inertness and its train, cowardice and falsity, men stand in need of examples, such as have been given them in the founders of religions, to construe for them the riddle of freedom.

But I had no anxiety to form part of an experiment to prove the truth or the falsity of that suggestion!

The fourth is the falsity of religion, 243.

But on learning its falsity were easily persuaded to retire, and did so without being guilty of any excess whatever.

Looking at life in the growth of a single lot, who having a practised vision may not see that ignorance of the true bond between events, and false conceit of means whereby sequences may be compelledlike that falsity of eyesight which overlooks the gradations of distance, seeing that which is afar off as if it were within a step or a grasp precipitate the mistaken soul on destruction?

The contaminating effect of deeds lies less in the commission than in the consequent adjustment of our desiresthe enlistment of our self-interest on the side of falsity; as, on the other hand, the purifying effect of public confession springs from the fact that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity.

6. Argument is that form of discourse which has for its object the proof of the truth or falsity of a proposition.

Many questions are of such a nature that in trying to convince our hearers of some truth, we often find it necessary to show them, not only the truth of a proposition or the expediency of a course of action, but also the falsity of some opposing proposition or the inexpediency of the opposite course of action.

Falseness, falsity.

" FALSITY, FALSENESS."Falsity, in the sense of 'non-conformity to truth,' without any suggestion of blame, is preferable to falseness, since falseness usually implies blame.

FALSENESS, FALSITY.

Falsity, falseness, distinguished, 31.

" "I have shocked you; but you can't conceive what it is to live with perpetual falsity.

146 examples of  falsity  in sentences