| 单词 | half-truth |
| 例句 | His story was full of lies and half-truths. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z This half-truth was of great use to the poor fellow, who learned to substitute it for the real trouble in later years. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom’s embellishments and half-truths usually equip her to tell a good story, though. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Her logic was a combination of half-truths and cliches, her worldview a compound of misconceptions deriving from a history of our nation as written from the perspective of a subway tunnel. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Tom’s whole life was constructed on lies—falsehoods and half-truths told to make him look better, stronger, more interesting than he was. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z That wasn’t so much a lie as a half-truth. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z We told him a series of half-truths about why we were in Johannesburg, and that we greatly desired jobs in the mines. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Now I had two angry souls to appease with half-truths. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I need to give him something, so I tell him it’s my dad, which isn’t exactly a lie, more of a half-truth because it’s only one part of a much bigger picture. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z This didn’t, however, stop him from telling my mother a preliminary half-truth, letting her know about the girl but saying they were going to meet in the public park. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z My life was a tangled mass of lies and half-truths. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “I told her I needed to think about it on my own for a while,” Joaquin said instead, which he considered a half-truth and therefore not really a lie. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z But she wasn't just a purveyor of half-truths and Fox News talking points. A farewell to harms: Meghan McCain exits "The View" but may have tainted it forever 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z The lies that Kipling had in mind were the half-truths and distortions that the country’s politicians and opinion-makers had resorted to at a time of war, in order to stir up a blood-and-khaki belligerence. When Rudyard Kipling’s Son Went Missing 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z Though the phrasing “guayabera shirt” makes this Spanish speaker flinch, Obejas succeeds in capturing the sense of doom, the weather of half-truths and paranoia, floating at the edges of Cleo’s Cuba. What’s It Like to Write Poetry in Authoritarian Cuba? Tricky, This Novel Suggests 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z But even then, a strategic half-truth always beats a lie. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Invasive questions? Tell him it’s none of his business. No lie. 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z But I do think you have to learn to sort out the truths from the half-truths and the spin. Pop culture, according to Jon Huntsman 2011-09-21T15:22:00Z Some of the worst misrepresentations are the half-truths told by flight attendants eager to foist credit card applications on hapless passengers, says Rocky Horan, who writes for a frequent-flier blog called Upgrd.com. ‘Free’ airline perks you earn from a credit card often come with a catch 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z She’s an expert in using half-truths to get what she wants. How to catch up with … UnREAL 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z False statements, misdirection, half-truths and outright lies: When promoted and repeated in the echo chambers of social media, they can shape attitudes, influence policy and erode democracy. Misdirection, Fake News and Lies: The Best Books to Read on Disinformation 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z We live online, we post half-truths all the time, all day without ever thinking twice about the morals of it. How "Generation Hustle," a show about con artists, almost got conned by one of its subjects 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Young, who also wrote the script, teases out the story in bits of coy hints and half-truths about a tragic accident, leaving too many questions unanswered. Review: In ‘bwoy,’ Online Dating Gone Wrong. Very Wrong. 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Television is offering so many drawn-out series that tantalize the viewer with half-truths and partial answers. Review: ‘Bloodline,’ on Netflix, Depicts a Family With Nasty Secrets 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z It is based, as they say, on a true story, a claim that is usually the prelude to a fantastically dishonest array of evasions and slippery half-truths. 127 Hours ? review 2011-01-06T22:05:00Z Yet there’s still a concept to be gleaned here, in songs about ancient half-truths and current self-delusions, converging in the artistic subconscious. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-05-09T22:28:22Z So here are 10 lies and half-truths about Hull: Not true … anymore. Top ten lies and half-truths about Hull 2013-07-19T10:02:21Z The warren of converted railway arches and interlocking basement spaces at the Arches, as well as the cavernous halls of Tramway, provide an environment in which all manner of half-truths can flourish. Tim Etchells on performance: National Review of Live Art meets a bloody end 2010-03-25T12:19:00Z McCarter hops off his mower and starts reeling off one-liners and half-truths like a sailor on shore leave, or rather a mainlander on leave from shore. The ‘other’ San Juan islanders go their own way 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z The news of a movie about the blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo has poked a stick into the nest of right-wing wasps, who have responded with their usual venomous inaccuracies, distortions and half-truths. Ann Coulter’s perverted history: The right’s latest obsessive, venomous half-truths 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z “The fact that it now involves using licensed attorneys to spread half-truths and lies is especially disturbing.” Perspective | Giuliani’s bumbling media blitz might be a calculation, not a mistake 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z I don’t know if he realized he had written things he shouldn’t send, or if he just forgot he wrote down this litany of resentments and half-truths attempting to burnish his faults to a shine. Greetings from Tatooine, Arizona 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z Daum’s book opens with a quote from Didion: “The half-truths, repeated, authenticated themselves.” A Liberal Uneasy in the World of #MeToo Feminism 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z The network is making a mockery of legal injunctions and the web is full of lies, distortions and half-truths. Everything you need to know about the internet 2010-06-19T23:14:00Z For anyone else, selling an exposé as questionably founded as this would be an exercise in circumlocution, obfuscation and half-truths. William Friedkin: 'You don’t know a damn thing, and neither do I' 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z "Most audiences are savvy enough to know that in the moviemaking process, some facts get ironed out into half-truths, and fictions are added to spruce up the narrative arc," said Village Voice columnist Michael Musto. Fact or fiction? Facebook film the latest "truth" tale 2010-09-29T18:39:00Z "Bent Road," Lori Roy's debut novel, is haunting and atmospheric, set in a place where "everyone knows everything about everybody," yet acts on misinformation and half-truths, with devastating consequences. Review: `Bent Road' is haunting family story 2011-03-31T20:17:13Z However, many things we believe to be facts about food are half-truths and a lot of his statements are true, from a certain point of view. Some commonly accepted "truths" about the origins of Italian food may actually be myths 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z Iterations of half-truths abound. Truth — not so much so. America is disintegrating, reality is fracturing, all to a classic soundtrack in Steve Erickson's 'Shadowbahn' 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z It’s a great scene for Mr. Grunberg, whose character runs through all the lies and half-truths he says he’s made peace with about Betty, all the men, her inability to have children. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: Can Any Relationship Last? 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z In lieu of an explanation, adults offered confusing half-truths that conveyed no clear message apart from their own guilt and shame. My Grandmother’s Desperate Choice 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z They’re also elements of an interactive video that documentary filmmaker and general trouble-maker Morgan Spurlock has put together to highlight the number of lies and half-truth being tossed around in politics today. “It felt like the bullsh*t was flowing directly at us”: Morgan Spurlock turns fact-checking the outrageous GOP debate into a game 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z To Limbaugh, his opponents relied on half-truths, bias and outright lies, the very same combination others would say was his magic formula. Rush Limbaugh, radio king and architect of right wing, dies 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z “I’m just going to work now,” I muttered, a half-truth in the half-light. After 264 Haircuts, a Marriage Ends 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Mr. Tapper, the White House correspondent who is the anchor of “This Week” until his replacement, Christiane Amanpour, takes over in August, does not currently plan a weekly television segment summarizing the previous week’s half-truths. ?This Week? and PolitiFact Join to Check Newsmakers 2010-04-12T22:07:00Z Whatever the performer reveals is a half-truth chiseled into an art form meant to elicit a specific emotion, like laughter. When Your Love Life Is a Punch Line 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Who among us hasn't engaged with a story that has no predictable ending, with a half-truth that, upon further examination, is more fiction than fact? Brit Bennett's "The Vanishing Half" and 4 more must-read novels out in June 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z “Just as in life, there are secrets and gaps, half-truths that are only partially explained,” Priya Parmar writes in her review. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z You can’t be an empowered patient and get the health outcomes you want with inaccurate information and half-truths. Jennifer Gunter: ‘Women are being told lies about their bodies’ 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z She notices the whispers during phone calls, the doors that close, the anguish in her family members’ faces, the fake smiles, the half-truths and lies. Perspective | How to explain a family trauma to a 7-year-old? Consider telling her the truth. 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z With obfuscations and half-truths, with distortions and snake oil, he brings about the changes. ‘Jalopies’: A touching look at aging, resilience | Theater review 2013-01-14T21:36:27Z Strictly speaking, Norman is a con artist, a spinner of exaggerations, half-truths and outright lies. Review: Richard Gere as ‘Norman,’ an Aspirational Jewish Fixer 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Pressing him to tell you things before he’s ready, though, may only lead to further obfuscation and half-truths. Can I Confront My Dad About His Possibly Secret Relationship? 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Just as in life, there are secrets and gaps, half-truths that are only partially explained. Interpreting the Interpreter: Who Was Lafcadio Hearn? 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z That it becomes what we want it to be means that it embodies our own half-truths and frustrations about our histories with the person it represents. Review: In ‘Marjorie Prime,’ Lois Smith Connects With the Past 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z But their flawless execution felt empty, like a half-truth. Beijing Dance Theater’s ‘Wild Grass’ at the Kennedy Center: A superficial spectacle At a time of endless half-truths and moral shilly-shallying, Morris's eccentric integrity shines out. Morris in Iceland 2010-03-27T00:09:00Z Later in the book, there are more troubling admissions — of doubts, medical errors, half-truths sold to desperate patients and irrevocable medical errors. A surgeon confesses his mistakes, and other best memoirs for May 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z Russell is out to his circle of straight friends but remains coy with them, often resorting to half-truths and evasions, a fact of life for many gay people who try to assimilate into straight culture. Arts & Leisure: Andrew Haigh?s ?Weekend? Looks at a Gay Couple 2011-09-22T12:00:13Z What isn’t so easy now is to find reliable information on special diets in the sea of half-truths and bunkum. Why we fell for clean eating 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z Toobin says that this half-truth and falsehood, respectively, were a rhetorical success because “simplicity rarely loses to complexity in battles in the public square.” Why the Mueller Investigation Failed 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z For a first-time reader, the book consistently dispels several half-truths and myths. Review | Ulysses S. Grant, perennially misunderstood, gets a thorough re-examination 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z “Wasn’t it better than these years of puncture wounds and paper cuts, these chafing lies and half-truths, that left you rubbed raw and exposed?” Y.A. Crossover 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z "This accusation that people through their dietary habits are somehow responsible at large for climate disruption is really a half-truth." Smart climate policy is good for people, not just the environment 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z Technically, I’m sure a product expert could say that some of the product did penetrate into the top layer of wood fibers, but I feel half-truths are whole lies. The true cost of using synthetic deck sealers 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z That was before Wisconsin became a hotbed of conspiracy theories that the 2020 election had been stolen from Donald Trump, before election officials across the country saw their lives upended by threats and half-truths. Wisconsin GOP sowed distrust over elections. Now they may push out the state’s top election official 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z To reiterate — because there are many half-truths circulating — La Sombrita is not a bus shelter. The 'Sombrita' bus shade controversy obscures an important story about women and transit 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z The defendant hotels "misrepresented to guests, through omissions, half-truths, and misrepresentations, how they determined room rates," the complaint alleged. Atlantic City casino-hotels accused in scheme to boost room rates 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z But I think in a way, this accusation that people through their dietary habits are somehow responsible at large for climate disruption is really a half-truth. Smart climate policy is good for people, not just the environment 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z The Chinese Exclusion Act files for many of her ancestors were “filled with intrigue, half-truths, and in some cases, outright lies.” Review | Unlocking the mysteries of one family’s past 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Rather than rely upon scientifically sound research, they traffic in half-truths and unsubstantiated declarations. Opinion | Florida’s surgeon general played loose with facts about vaccine risk 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z He then warned Americans to “beware of people who peddle fear” and those who peddle half-truths. TikTok feud: Hawley says Rand Paul defending China’s right to spy on Americans 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z “Before he took the time to gather the facts, he painted a negative half-truth about our son and the unfolding case,” she said. Family lawyer: Police shooting caught on video was execution 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z Johnson’s mother, Melissa Johnson, on Wednesday said Davis “painted a negative half-truth about our son” when he described Johnson immediately after the shooting as someone with a “significant violent criminal history.” Police chief fires officer, releases video of shooting death 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z The team and the NFL denied the allegations, and attorneys for the team said the lawsuit “repeats a lot of innuendo, half-truths and lies.” Daniel Snyder’s demands anger NFL owners, renew talk of voting him out 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z But FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf has spent the last year warning that growing “distortions and half-truths” surrounding vaccines and other medical products are now “a leading cause of death in America.” FDA’s own reputation could be restraining its misinfo fight 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z In a Substack post, Eastman said the State Bar filing is “filled with distortions, half-truths and outright falsehoods.” State Bar charges John Eastman, lawyer who advised Trump on overturning the election, with ethics violations 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z For all the lies and half-truths that Santos has told about his education, professional history and family tree, he is a compelling curiosity. Perspective | The ‘lying congressman’ and his crewnecks 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z “Which proves my point: So much of what passes for news is name-calling, half-truths and desperation.” CNN viewers watching less often thanks to ‘liberal/leftwing bias’: poll 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z “Which proves my point: so much of what passes for news is name-calling, half-truths and desperation.” The Education of CNN’s Chris Licht 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z Yet Ethan remains unconvinced, accusing his wife of telling a half-truth and speculating they did more than just kiss. Answering your questions about the ‘White Lotus’ Season 2 finale 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z “Their brief is littered with major misstatements and half-truths.” Supreme Court to consider fundamental change in elections authority 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z He grabs random facts, half-truths and whole lies off the shelf to serve his desire for power and glory. Op-Ed: If democracy is a corrupt 'Western' concept, why does Putin pretend his actions in Ukraine are democratic? 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z “Instead, there was a shocking abuse of a disciplinary default and its transformation into a series of half-truths that misled a jury and resulted in substantial injustice.” Alex Jones seeks new trial after $1B Sandy Hook verdict 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z "The fierce attacks and counter-attacks based on rumor, half-truths and innuendo have made this election a Brazilian soap opera." Analysis: Brazil's Bolsonaro caught off guard by campaign's ugly closing chapter 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z “Entrenched government interests who felt threatened by parental empowerment tried to maintain the status quo by fighting school choice with falsehoods and half-truths,” said the Goldwater Institute. Arizona’s school-choice program prevails as foes come up short on referendum signatures 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z It doesn’t sound like a radio hit to me, but it would be closer to today’s reality than the half-truths we tell ourselves about fathers and daughters. What do men criminalizing abortion tell their daughters? 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Dramas over stolen campaign signs, accusations that incumbents are responsible for all the world’s ills and TV ads that use half-truths to cast aspersions on candidates. Tiffany Smiley editorial board dust up sheds light on U.S. Senate race 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z I think it’s worth exploring at what point a half-truth is more dangerous than a lie.” Netflix hit with defamation lawsuit over true-crime drama 'Inventing Anna' 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z Every issue is being muddled with disinformation and half-truths and narratives that paralyze action by creating confusion and doubt. Extremism expert Stephanie Foggett: How the far right is winning the "information war" 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z During a diplomatic tour of Africa focused on food exports, he said a “half-truth is worse than a lie” while pointing to the chilling effect of sanctions. Ukraine’s Black Sea deal also helps Russian farmers, economy 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z The process of swaying people with messaging that questions vaccines is how disinformation — deliberately fabricated falsehoods and half-truths — becomes misinformation, or incorrect information passed along unwittingly. The Anti-Vaccine Movement’s New Frontier 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z These two legislators, who have been supporters of abortion rights, are shaken — shook — by the obfuscations, the misdirections and the half-truths that a host of other people saw clearly but they chose not to see. Perspective | Invigorating, familiar and frustrating outrage 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z Propaganda is the dissemination of information, whether it be facts, arguments, rumors, half-truths or lies, to influence public opinion. Spring cleaning for your thoughts and words: Keep it positive 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Every issue is being muddled with disinformation and half-truths and narratives that paralyze action by just creating confusion and doubt. Extremism expert Stephanie Foggett: How the far right is winning the "information war" 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z The rest of his statement is itself full of lies and half-truths,” declares an Issues & Insights editorial published 24 hours after Mr. Biden’s big reveal. Biden’s $5.8 trillion budget blasted as ‘fiscally reckless’ 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z Motivated by the best intentions, these people nonetheless end up amplifying the contagion, and the damaging impact, of half-truths and distortions. The Anti-Vaccine Movement’s New Frontier 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z All other choices are larded with distortion, half-truths and outright lies! Distortion, half-truths, outright lies — our 2nd April Fools’ quiz 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Special prosecutor Dan Webb opposed Smollett’s release, writing in a motion that the actor relied “on half-truths and misleading statements, at best, to manufacture an alleged emergency” and win his release on bond. Jussie Smollett's attorney calls his case 'bogus' as actor walks out of Chicago jail 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z But the same forces quickly tear him down when twists and half-truths emerge, casting doubt on his motive. An Iranian Director’s Rule: ‘Always Focus on Ordinary People’ 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Speaking to her former publication, she condemned what she described as "dangerous half-truths" in the show and said the series created "problematic" empathy for a "sociopathic, narcissistic, proven criminal". Inventing Anna: Fake heiress drama tops Netflix ratings 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z And a high school reunion, in which people are already putting on false fronts, telling half-truths, is a perfect setting for this sort of tale. ‘The Afterparty’ is the delightful murder mystery you need to watch next 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z When it came to sniffing out Boeing managers’ half-truths about the 737’s faulty software, the agency was at a huge disadvantage. Review | When Boeing put profit over quality in the 737 Max, the result was tragedy 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Carlson’s series ‘Patriot Purge’ is a perfect example of propaganda that weaves half-truths into a whole lie. Tucker Carlson canonizes Kyle Rittenhouse the patron saint of right-wing violence 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Across the country, a pipeline of misleading media had been pumping lies and half-truths, in both English and Spanish, into local Latino communities. Facebook struggled with disinformation targeted at Latinos, leaked documents show 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z The national debate over critical race theory — if one can even call it a debate — has been filled with half-truths, unfulfilled definitions, and a whole lot of obfuscation and obstruction. Opinion | Can We Talk About Critical Race Theory? 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Instead of engaging in what he described as “fairy tales and half-truths,” he encouraged adults to address death directly. Earl Grollman, rabbi who ministered to mourners, dies at 96 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z “It was 110% predictable that an information vacuum was going to be filled with half-truths and blatant rumors and lies.” California governor puzzled by reaction to his absence 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Powell later admitted it was wrong to denounce Saddam’s “web of lies” when the Bush administration was spinning its own web of half-truths and fantasies. Opinion | Colin Powell and ‘Guernica’ 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z Too many sentences contain half-truths and gross generalizations, unsupported by facts: “Whites assume, correctly, that without maintaining their whiteness, they would lose power, privilege and status.” Review | Mary Trump takes on America’s evils, beyond her famous uncle 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z Richard Marianos’s June 27 Local Opinions essay, “D.C.’s proposed ban on flavored tobacco is dangerous and counterproductive,” about D.C. ending the sale of flavored tobacco products, was full of half-truths and misrepresentations. Opinion | D.C. Council was right to ban flavored tobacco 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z What remains of the lab-leak theory is half-truths, misrepresentations, and tendentious conjecture. Column: The lab-leak origin claim for COVID-19 is in the news, but it's still fact-free 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z The story is a myth, reliant on half-truths and omissions to make it convincing. William F. Buckley and the Birchers: A myth, a history lesson and a moral 2021-04-03T04:00:00Z I didn’t want to go on choosing half-truths. For a scorched-earth memoirist, truth-telling is a feminist act 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z His foes accused him of trafficking in half-truths, bias and outright lies - the very tactics he decried in others. Rush Limbaugh, ‘voice of American conservatism,’ has died 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z His foes accused him of trafficking in half-truths, bias and outright lies — the very tactics he decried in others. Rush Limbaugh, ‘voice of American conservatism,’ has died 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, said the institutes engage in covert influence operations designed to sway American public opinion and teach half-truths about China. How Biden is allowing Chinese govt. to quietly creep onto U.S. college campuses 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z Flores and others used “false statements, representations, promises and half-truths” in charging supposed corporate expenses to the state, prosecutors allege. Manager in California AIDS office charged with $2M fraud 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z Fifty years later, in time for our 1976 centennial, the university’s magazine published a short biography of Hopkins that repeated the same half-truths. Opinion | The founder of Johns Hopkins owned enslaved people. Our university must face a reckoning. 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z “There are those who are exploiting the emotions of many Trump supporters with fantastic claims, half-truths, misinformation, and frankly, they’re misleading the president as well, apparently,” Raffensperger said at a news conference Monday. Dangerously viral: How Trump, supporters spread false claims 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z “There are those who exploit the emotions of many Trump supporters with fantastic claims, half-truths, misinformation and frankly, they’re misleading the president as well, apparently.” No, Georgia’s governor cannot ‘overrule’ its secretary of state on voting. 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z “There are those who are exploiting the emotions of many Trump supporters with fantastic claims, half-truths, misinformation and, frankly, they’re misleading the president as well, apparently,” Raffensperger said. Georgia official announces investigations, defends election 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z Then, while reading lazy half-truths about Sichuan pepper at my kitchen counter, it was as if I received some librarian version of the bat signal, a single round peppercorn outlined against the night sky. Opinion | To Learn the Truth, Read My Wikipedia Entry on Sichuan Peppers 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z “They are solely interested in headlines, half-truths, and distractions to prop up their dimming political prospects.” As committee bickers over subpoenas, Madigan faces challenge 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z In a week filled with fabrication, half-truths and misrepresentation, he also wrongly took full credit for veterans improvements that were underway before he took office. AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s errant views on voting, Biden miscues 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z “The Electoral College is so misunderstood, and so subject to assumptions and half-truths,” said Trent England, executive director of Save Our States, an activist nonprofit that opposes illegal immigration. Documentary defends Electoral College from escalating popular-vote movement 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z The confusion is amplified during a health emergency, however, by half-truths swirling in social media and misinformed statements by people in the public eye. Health illiteracy is nothing new in America. But the pandemic magnifies how troubling it is. 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z The substance of that book report is the same old happy talk and cheerleading, virtually always based on half-truths and outright lies. The year of dark magical thinking: Trump's petty revenge fantasies have killed thousands 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z Some well-known facts, some half-truths, and some straight lies, strung together in what first looks like a smooth narrative. OpenAI’s latest breakthrough is astonishingly powerful, but still fighting its flaws 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Watching the leaders of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google face a filleting in front of the House antitrust panel on Wednesday, I kept a running list of the little half-truths they told. Perspective | The 5 biggest little lies tech CEOs told Congress — and us 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z “This is a total gaslight of Florida residents and right in tune with his longstanding campaign of half-truths and mixed messages throughout this crisis.” Democrats: DeSantis’ virus inaction is killing Floridians 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z His crowning triumph – the successful campaign to leave the EU – was a masterclass of stoking and exploiting divisions, unpleasantly emotive half-truths or untruths, and evidently considered itself above the law. The truth about why Cummings hasn't gone: Johnson is too terrified to sack him | Marina Hyde 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z The contact tracers often find themselves in a tangled web of half-truths and facts that don’t match up. Detective, nurse, confidant: Virus tracers play many roles 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z “They’ll use whatever half-truth or slogan they can to convince people of their conspiracy beliefs.” Trump’s promise of ‘Warp Speed’ fuels anti-vaccine movement in fertile corners of the Web 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z When we first got together, you said you were too old for midnight feedings and I said I was too broken to be a mother — both flimsy half-truths. The last love letter 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Very soon we would be completely twisted up in yet another web of my lies and half-truths and outright lunacy, but there was no going back, and no time to rest. Fear and loathing in the Rose Garden 2020: A journey into the heart of the American nightmare 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z They ask questions and complain, but we are told half-truths, kept in the dark. ‘Something Is Going to Explode’: When Coronavirus Strikes a Prison 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z Not for him the mealy-mouthed half-truth, the small evasion. Strange attractors: On being addicted to Trump and his press conferences 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z Through whatever combination of intention, ignorance or mental indiscipline, Trump is a habitual stater of untruths and half-truths, and this vague fog of fancy and fact — hyperbolic, sloppy, hypnotically repetitious — keeps his rhetoric slippery. Forget Trump's daily briefings. Watch these coronavirus messengers instead 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z We live in a time in which lies, half-truths and misinformation often drown out the truth. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Misusing ‘shelter in place’ and offering conflicting accounts 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z Russia uses its state-sponsored media outlets such as RT and Sputnik to push one-sided narratives, conspiracy theories and half-truths to its audiences. Opinion | Enough finger-pointing on Russian interference. Here’s how to prepare for 2020. 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z As government leaders and health professionals race to contain an outbreak on the verge of a pandemic, they are simultaneously battling another hard-to-defeat scourge: the explosion of half-truths and outright falsehoods online. Fake cures and other coronavirus conspiracy theories are flooding WhatsApp, leaving governments and users with a ‘sense of panic’ 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z Finally, I think that it is only fair to call out large organizations that use half-truths, pathos, and fear-mongering to generate revenues/donations. Responses to “The Cancer Industry: Hype vs. Reality” 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z Many contain a mixture of hoaxes and half-truths, making them difficult to fact-check. Bloomberg’s debate performance shows that Facebook ads will only get you so far 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z Steyer said he’s the best candidate to confront Trump’s lies and half-truths about the economy. Steyer says Nevada caucus “super important” to his campaign 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Since the first cases of a then-unidentified pneumonia were reported in late December, hoaxes, half-truths and flat-out lies have proliferated, mostly through social media. The coronavirus is spreading rapidly. So is misinformation about it. 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z The coronavirus's rapid spread worldwide is forcing Big Tech to confront the equally viral proliferation of misinformation -- in the form outright falsehoods and half-truths about the outbreak. Silicon Valley scrambles to stop coronavirus misinformation 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z The US was self sufficient in energy, he said – a half-truth, but one he believes. Saudi Arabia urges de-escalation of Midde East crisis 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z The internet is full of viral half-truths, honest mistakes, outright lies, and other unreliable information. Why individuals won’t fix online misinformation — but they’re the best option we’ve got 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Beguiled by groupthink, they are drawn into a web of deceit and half-truths. Afghanistan agony is a product of political self-delusion – and public indifference | Simon Tisdall 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z It’s not just the gore and suffering, it’s the insidious drip-drip-drip of half-truths and emotional arguments that make extremists start to make sense, and those racist memes look really funny. As a Facebook moderator I saw the worst of humanity. We need to be valued | Chris Gray 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z She wrote: "I am also at a stage in life where I would prefer to do something more rewarding with my time, than peddle half-truths on behalf of a government I do not trust." British diplomat resigns over Brexit 'half-truths' 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z The British diplomat in charge of explaining Brexit to the US government, Congress and public, has resigned, saying she was no longer prepared to “peddle half-truths on behalf of a government I do not trust”. British diplomat in US resigns, saying she can't 'peddle half-truths' on Brexit 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z The trial was peppered with lies and half-truths, he says. The 'scandal' of Scotland's longest gangland trial 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z And then that disinformation and propaganda—truths, half-truths, and lies—it’s been fitted around you slowly, like boiling the frog, to where you adopt a framework, which only benefits Russia. Malcolm Nance on the Danger of Conspiracy Theories 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z But the claim that fossil fuels are the essence of global prosperity today is, at best, a half-truth because what is at stake here isn’t the past but the future. Why science failed to stop climate change 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z His early childhood is shrouded in vague memories, half-truths and hand-me-down stories – and his mother remained unforthcoming to the end. Photographer Pat Martin: ‘Mom was not an easy subject’ 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z “I am also at a stage in life where I would prefer to do something more rewarding with my time, than peddle half-truths on behalf of a government I do not trust.” British diplomat in US resigns, saying she can't 'peddle half-truths' on Brexit 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Instead it is a mixture of half-truths and selected truths, often filtered through a deeply cynical and conspiratorial world view.” Social media is amplifying Trump’s rants and disinformation more than ever 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z Riddled with half-truths and hyperbole, his op-ed qualifies as a model of “fake news.” False security: Trump and the Ten Commandments (plus one) of the national security state 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z If we all just settle into small, mutually ignorant online support groups exchanging comforting half-truths, then civilisation is in for a rough ride. ‘Smartphones are worse than nuclear weapons’: an extract from David Mitchell’s new book 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z So now is the time, well before the voting in caucuses and primaries begins, to size up the various Democratic candidates’ hypocrisies, half-truths and vulnerabilities. Opinion | Democrats Have a Politeness Problem 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z The UAW in a statement said GM was “playing games at the expense of workers” and accused the automaker of half-truths and “purposefully stalling the process to starve UAW-GM workers off the picket lines.” GM appeals directly to striking workers, raising amount it plans to invest in U.S. 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Central to this disturbing trend is President Trump, whose re-election campaign and allies revel in mixing selected truths, half-truths, knowing distortions and outright lies, especially with messaging sent and seen online. Social media is amplifying Trump’s rants and disinformation more than ever 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z A Washington Times review of Mr. Schiff’s comments on Russia and impeachment found multiple embellishments, half-truths and factual misstatements. Lies, leaks and half-truths: Schiff’s credibility crumbling amid impeachment push 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Allen spoke for the franchise Monday afternoon and offered optimistic resolve and half-truths. Bruce Allen defends Redskins tenure, says ‘the culture is actually damn good’ 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Johnson claimed the media dealt only in half-truths for political reasons and weren't interested in hearing all the facts. Sen. Chris Murphy accuses Sen. Ron Johnson of giving Trump 'green light' to 'solicit foreign interference' 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z Johnson claimed the media wanted to deal only in half-truths for political reasons and weren't interested in hearing all the facts. Sen. Ron Johnson: James Comey, John Brennan have corrupted FBI and CIA 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z The Hall of Fame coach Bill Self thundered about “half-truths,” and athletic director Jeff Long all but sobbed into his news release. Time’s Up for the N.C.A.A. 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Last but not least, the crown prince should stop offering half-truths and accept full responsibility for ordering the murder. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z And the paranoid did have a large, shadowy half-truth to fall back on. The myth of Eurabia: how a far-right conspiracy theory went mainstream 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z Since a generalization about life is also, invariably, a half-truth about it, the missing half of the truth often registers more clangingly now than the half that’s there. The Art of Aphorism 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z A farrago of half-truths, distortions and outright invention. MPs condemn Boris Johnson for his 'despicable act of cowardice' over ambassador – live news 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z But there are also a lot of myths and half-truths that people believe. Myths around giving blood debunked 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z It is difficult to brush aside the steady stream of lies and half-truths that insult our intelligence. Opinion | Disregard Trump’s ground noise. Focus on the signal. 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z It is a lesson in the danger of half-truths, which are not only more powerful than truths but often more powerful than lies. The myth of Eurabia: how a far-right conspiracy theory went mainstream 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z These kinds of smears masquerading as half-truths and gross exaggerations have been consigned to the margins of political respectability in Canada. Scapegoating George Soros: How media-savvy far-right activists spread lies 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z The half-truths and exaggerations came in a week when selective accounting was a norm in Trump’s rhetoric, extending into his trip to Japan , where he inflated the drop in the U.S. unemployment rate for women. AP FACT CHECK: Trump takes credit for Obama’s gains for vets 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z The BBC have a responsibility to interrogate lies and half-truths; otherwise the quality of their output becomes less robust. Is BBC news broken? And if so, how do we fix it? 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z And the question of whether the war should be thought inevitable depends not on the truths that each side tells about the other but on the half-truths that each tells about itself. What Netanyahu and Hamas Are Really Fighting for in Gaza 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z We are all prone to believing half-truths, forming connections where there are none to be found, or finding importance in political and social events that may not have much significance at all. Why we are addicted to conspiracy theories 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z “Both sides are also using hoaxes and half-truths. It solidifies the base, at least.” In Indonesia’s Election Campaign, a Dictator’s Son-in-Law Rails Against ‘Elites’ 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z Calling Hudson Yards a private development, however, is a half-truth. Forget 'machine for living in' – Hudson Yards is a machine for investing in | Samuel Stein 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Trump dealt in half-truths and peddled obvious fictions to harm his opponents. Pelosi trumps Trump 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Garrett says the report is based on “half-truths and whole lies.” Report: Virginia politician misused staff for personal tasks 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z But while conspiracy theories are as old as the US itself, there is something new at work: people who peddle lies and half-truths have come to prominence, fame and power as never before. Why we are addicted to conspiracy theories 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z Garrett says the report is based on “half-truths and whole lies.” Report: Virginia politician misused staff for personal tasks 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Her work is inspired, she says by her family, mythology and “half-truths.” Meet the makers: She ditched L.A. to become a fiber artist in the desert 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Untruths and half-truths circulate liberally on social media platforms, and populists on both sides of the Atlantic have been aggressively trying to discredit and intimidate the mainstream media. After German Journalism Scandal, Critics Are ‘Popping the Corks’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z I think it’s up to the media to rethink their presentation of the news and learn a way of isolating and exposing harmful “distortions,” “half-truths,” big “L” lies and big “P” propaganda. Calendar Feedback: Hockney painting and the 'P' word 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z Many in the media must have expected Trump to develop from a reality-show ringleader to a world leader when they used non-corrosive terms like “distortions” and “half-truths” while correcting his 2017-era falsehoods. Why the 'P' word — propaganda — might be best for what we're seeing on our TV screens 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Bolsonaro’s campaign hit back, with his son, Carlos, dismissing the allegations on Twitter as “half-truths” and “decontextualized lies” that reflected the PT’s “despair” at his father’s imminent victory. Bolsonaro business backers accused of illegal Whatsapp fake news campaign 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z The documents he was being shown, he said, included “a lot of half-truth” and arguments that were “not quite accurate.” Did Uber Steal Google’s Intellectual Property? 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z They were both fluent in the language of half-truths and lies, interviews and records show. Trump engaged in suspect tax schemes as he reaped riches from father 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Graham’s conspiracy theory was riddled with exaggerations and half-truths, but it did not matter—an angry narrative had been found. “If They Can, They Will”: The Ford-Kavanaugh Hearing and the Angry Politics of Now 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z The state-sponsored spread of deliberate misinformation is not a “half-truth,” “distortion of reality” or “the president’s loose relationship with the facts,” as many a mainstream news correspondent and pundit have said. Why the 'P' word — propaganda — might be best for what we're seeing on our TV screens 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z She also writes that she is “a big fan of honesty” and adds that “it’s also wrong to tell half-truths and be sneaky about the truth — no doubt about it.” The Evolution of Kyrsten Sinema, From Homeless Child to Senate Candidate 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z “We are being received in a different way, people are more positive toward the S.D., and that’s quite nice. Despite smear campaigns, half-truths and lies in the media, many people see through them.” As Sweden Votes, the Far Right Gains Even in an Immigrant Bastion 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z He has, in effect, become the legal auxiliary to Trump’s Twitter feed, peddling the same chaotic mixture of non sequiturs, exaggerations, half-truths, and falsehoods. How Rudy Giuliani Turned Into Trump’s Clown 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z Social media, the narcotic we were addicted to, did double duty as an outrage amplifier and disseminator of half-truths. How I fell for – and broke up with – the intellectual dark web 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z On more than one occasion he ruthlessly exposed a military commander’s lack of strategic clarity and failures of candor about battlefield progress, knowing that evasions and half-truths would cost lives on the front lines. Opinion | McCain Championed a Strong Senate 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z In the more measured but still emphatic words of the authors, “the right-wing media ecosystem differs categorically from the rest of the media environment,” and has been much more susceptible to “disinformation, lies and half-truths.” A New Book Details the Damage Done by the Right-Wing Media in 2016 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z Considering his 180-degree turn, we don’t know if his next utterance will be a half-truth or a whole lie. Urban Meyer discovers indifference not an option 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z They speak in a tangled web of cliches, mantras, mind games, half-truths, and lies. Adam Gase names two starting running backs "just to be an asshole" - Golf Digest 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Social media, the narcotic we were already all addicted to, now did double duty as an outrage amplifier and disseminator of half-truths spoken by well-meaning but unreliable narrators. How I fell for – and broke up with – the intellectual dark web 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z Worse, I thought the history, written by Geoffrey Ward, was choppy, inconsistent and often marred by half-truths, distortions and omissions. Calendar Letters: What if artists were to critique colleagues’ work? These appearances have consistently featured hyperbole and half-truths in performances that would embarrass most White Houses. Opinion | The Giuliani deception tour continues 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z That capped a week of distortions, half-truths and swerves in his declarations on the economy, North Korea and other issues of the time. AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s half-truths on court case, economy 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z That is a tall task — the president’s penchant for half-truths, exaggerations and outright falsehoods is well established. Shifting Strategy, Trump’s Lawyers Set New Conditions for Mueller Interview 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z Many teams deal in half-truths or whole lies as the draft approaches. NBA shows less is more with draft, unlike NFL counterpart 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Only vagueness and cliche and half-truths disguised as fact. Hurricane Maria would have killed my mother – as it did thousands like her 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z Both are half-truths, says Scott Hamilton of Leeham Company, a consultancy in Seattle. A WTO ruling on aircraft subsidies raises the risk of a tariff war 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z He retorted that Mr Bershidsky was dealing in half-truths, at best, and in any case relying on a stereotypical dichotomy between East and West. In religion and economics, cause and effect are very hard to prove 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z His lawyers have been negotiating terms of an interview out of concern that their client — whose exaggerations, half-truths and outright falsehoods are well documented — could provide false statements or easily become distracted. Mueller has dozens of inquiries for Trump in broad quest on Russia ties and obstruction 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z Labrador accused Ahlquist of telling “half-truths” along the campaign trail, particularly against the Republican congressman’s record. 3 GOP governor candidates participate in final debate 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z He said he’s remorseful for offending some people but added some stories spread were “half-truths” to “lies.” Dozens of bars boycott heralded Melvin Brewing over sexual-misconduct allegation, ‘bad-boy’ culture 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z As in her 2013 book Behind the Shock Machine, which probed psychologist Stanley Milgram’s 1960s research on obedience, she is unsatisfied with the half-truths lazily handed down in textbooks. War and peace and summer camp 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z The lack of satisfactory explanations, and Murdoch's own eagerness to avoid the press, means that many gaps remain in Murdoch's story, gaps that at times have been filled by half-truths and speculation. Obituary: The disgraced rugby star who disappeared 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z That is understandable, since they are responsible for releasing half-truths and outright falsehoods into the wild. Fake news flourishes when partisan audiences crave it 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z The purveyors of negative campaigning, we said at that time, count on voters being ill-informed, making it easier for them to accept lies, character assassination and half-truths. Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in Illinois 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z Smiley’s attorneys said Friday that the filing represents more “lies, half-truths and smears from PBS” that they look forward to exposing in court. PBS says new witnesses attest Tavis Smiley sex misconduct 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z It denounced the ambassador's comments as based on "delusions, lies and half-truths". A tale of two nerve agent attacks 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Regardless of your views, you are accepting half-truths if you don't read and watch multiple news sources with different views before making a judgement. Andrew McCabe, a Symbol of Trump’s F.B.I. Ire, Faces Possible Firing 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Defendants “intentionally exploited this tragedy — including through lies, misrepresentations and half-truths — with disregard for the obvious harm that their actions would cause Joel and Mary,” attorney Eli J. Kay-Oliphant wrote on their behalf. Fox News sued by family of Seth Rich, slain DNC staffer, over retracted reporting 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z These men are daily weavers of conspiracy theories and half-truths on an historically epic scale. The President and the Porn Star: A Story’s Slow Rise Above the Din 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Goodson said she’ll be better prepared to respond to what she called “half-truths” about her record if targeted by outside groups. Appellate judge seeking Arkansas Supreme Court seat 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z “In my opinion, Trump is the most dangerous man on the planet because of his power of using lies and half-truths to galvanize his supporters and his ability to command vast military resources,” he said. Barry Bluestone, Northeastern professor, says he ‘wouldn’t mind’ seeing Donald Trump dead 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z Provable lies, half-truths, distortions, we've got those already; the question is, what are you hoping for? Trump Says He Is Willing to Speak Under Oath to Mueller 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z “Instead of more half-truths and fabrications, Ms. Kent-Cooke, how about an apology.” Socialite Jacqueline Kent Cooke tells her side of the story in purse assault case 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z Everyone, meanwhile, be on guard as wagers of intergenerational conflict stoke anger with half-truths and selective facts. Don’t vilify baby boomers over safety-net programs 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z And I tell the half-truth, which is as an actor, I owe him everything.” Two of Russell Simmons’ accusers say alleged sexual misconduct happened 'so fast' 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z It exposes just how rumours, conspiracy theories and half-truths bubble to the top of YouTube, Google and Twitter search algorithms. How Syria's White Helmets became victims of an online propaganda machine 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z “These high-tech lynchings based on lies and half-truths can’t be allowed to win the day. I’ve been fighting behind my husband for 30 years and his fight will go on.” A lawmaker accused of molesting a teen killed himself. His widow calls it a 'high-tech lynching.' 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z At the end of the documentary, the listener is left grasping at half-truths and flickers of honesty. My father fought the CIA's secret war in Laos 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z But it’s better to try than to get lost in alarmist half-truths. If Portugal is a net neutrality nightmare, we’re already living in it 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z If you don’t want to be the source of half-truths or total falsehoods, you need to do some rudimentary research before forwarding anything to your contact list. Opinion | Passing along rumors is a sure way to poison public discourse 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Still, there’s something a little rich in the fact that the spot was produced by a network known for shows where pundits in boxes yell half-truths over one another. Here’s hoping CNN’s ‘Facts First’ ad is effective 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z For many of us, Mr. Trump, Mr. Bannon and Mr. Moore represent the politics of dissolution and dehumanization, of resentment and enmity, of half-truths and anti-truths. Opinion | Going Against the Republican Herd 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z Here are five takeaways from the debate, which included some truths and half-truths. California, MacArthur Foundation, World Cup: Your Wednesday Briefing 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z The two detectives were indicted earlier this year, adding to the body of evidence that police perjury and half-truths remain a persistent problem for the New York Police Department. He Excelled as a Detective, Until Prosecutors Stopped Believing Him 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z In the hours after a 7.1 earthquake thrashed Mexico City on Sept. 19, half-truths and rumors were spreading rapidly. Amid Mexico's quake chaos and rumors, a website helps people get facts straight 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z Still, it’s rich the spot was produced by a network known for shows where pundits yell half-truths over one another. Here’s hoping CNN’s ‘Facts First’ ad is effective 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z Addressing the anonymous allegations in a post to his personal Facebook account following his resignation, Belove described the email’s contents as "demonstrable lies and half-truths, and allegations without known victims." Cinefamily suspends all activities in wake of sexual misconduct allegations 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z Addressing the allegations in a post to his personal Facebook account following his resignation, Belove described the email’s contents as “demonstrable lies and half-truths, and allegations without known victims.” Two top Cinefamily leaders resign over anonymous allegations of sexual misconduct 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z But in both cases, ‘‘liberal’’ points to the consensus, the gutless compromise position, the arrogant pseudopolitics, the mealy-mouthed half-truth. Hated by the Right. Mocked by the Left. Who Wants to Be ‘Liberal’ Anymore? 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z It is replete with half-truths and outright lies. Opinion | First, Erdogan’s goons attack protesters. Then, the embassy blames the victims. 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z The need for half-truth books is the most obvious indication of the common wish to protect children from their everyday fears and anxieties, a hopeless wish that denies the child’s endless battle with disturbing emotions.” Maurice Sendak’s Wild Things 1966-01-14T05:00:00Z In the president’s op-ed, I noticed themes of shame, blame, failure, division and exclusion and a large amount of boasting and, perhaps, half-truths. Opinion | Assessing Trump’s 100-day assessment 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z With its huge reach, Facebook has begun to act as the great disseminator of the larger cloud of misinformation and half-truths swirling about the rest of media. Can Facebook Fix Its Own Worst Bug? 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z President Trump’s critics squawk about many things, and purposefully cloud the public narrative with shrill melodrama and confusing half-truths. Inside the Beltway: Caitlyn Jenner to talk politics on Fox News with Tucker Carlson 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z Sessions’ claims are based on a combination of half-truths and outright lies. Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions ramp up their crusade against black and brown Americans 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z Fake news is just as the name implies - fake, phony, a collection of lies or half-truths, often written with the intent of undermining the work of responsible news operations. Editorials from around Pennsylvania 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z This prompted a war of words where North Korea's ambassador Kang Chol accused Malaysia of colluding with "hostile forces", allegations which Kuala Lumpur dubbed as "delusions, lies and half-truths". Kim Jong-nam: Body 'arrives in Pyongyang' in exchange deal - BBC News 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z Indeed, efforts by George W. Bush’s administration to secure such an authorization failed abysmally, collapsing in a welter of half-truths and outright falsehoods. Prepare, pursue, prevail! Onward and upward with U.S. central command 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z Instead, he overwhelmed his interviewer with such a profusion of misstatements, half-truths, dodges, and red herrings that one grows dizzy trying to untangle it all. Donald Trump's dizzying Time magazine interview was 'Trumpspeak' on display | Douglas Lawrence 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z “The hearing was the worst kind of demagoguery, red baiting, fearmongering and half-truths,” Stone, who sports a tattoo of a smiling Nixon on his back, said in a phone interview Tuesday. Lots of smoke but no fire yet in U.S.-Russia investigation 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z The immigration debate has become mired in myths, falsehoods and half-truths, with little clarity among liberals or conservatives alike. Everyone’s wrong on immigration: Open borders are the only way to defeat Trump and build a better world 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z There he seemed to fit in better, although he still lived in a cloud of half-truths. For Kim Jong Nam, a sad ending to a lonely life 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Charles Funderburk, 46, a contractor in Little Rock, Ark., and a conservative Republican, said he felt he was “only getting half-truths” from the news media. Sure the Media Is Biased. But the Enemy? Not Quite. 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z McMaster, whom Trump named yesterday as his new national security adviser, understands how corrosive even half-truths can become. The Daily 202: Trump’s new national security adviser literally wrote the book on Vietnam 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z Malaysia’s foreign ministry responded that the ambassador’s comments were “culled from delusions, lies and half-truths.” Malaysian diplomat says Kim death investigation impartial 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z “She looks cheery when attacking, even cheerier when attacked and absolutely radiant when descending into a bog of half-truths and fictions. It’s always sunny on Conway’s side of the street.” Kellyanne Conway’s White House gaffes: three strikes but not yet out 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Nevertheless, the administration remains dogged by slip-ups, half-truths and bombshells, some of them set off by the president himself. ‘We’ll do better’: Trump’s White House tries to gain a sense of order amid missteps 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z “I t was at turns dark and chaotic — dominated by lies, half-truths and conspiracy theories that have no basis in fact,” said Democratic operative Jim Manley. Trump often distracted away from campaign promises in first week 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z In the echo chamber of the internet, the drone of half-truths and lies blurs the edges of the real. Election rigging 101: Donald Trump’s crash course in hijacking democracy 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z Still, Trump’s claims barely register as half-truths to residents here. 'In horrible shape'? Visit to John Lewis's district undermines Trump's claims 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z But he took refuge in the notion that politics is by its nature replete with exaggerations, half-truths and outright whoppers, so he was hardly adding much to the sum total. From Headline to Photograph, a Fake News Masterpiece 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z He belittled, bragged, dodged, told a half-dozen half-truths. After the loud talk, watch the walk 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z When politicians such as Trump use half-truths, spurious accusations and character assassination, they echo the tactics used by the Kremlin. How Russian ‘kompromat’ destroys political opponents, no facts required 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z She looks cheery when attacking, even cheerier when attacked and absolutely radiant when descending into a bog of half-truths and fictions. The sorcery of Kellyanne Conway 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z It’s a complicated story about two women falling in love among a series of double crosses, disguises, half-truths and flat-out lies. Why 2016 was a game-changing year for the cultural portrayal of female sexuality 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z But in Britain’s Brexit referendum, too, social media played an important role in spreading half-truths and outright lies. The role of technology in the presidential election 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z For two solid years, the media engaged in spreading half-truths and misinformation about the first serious female candidate for president. ‘Hillary Clinton didn’t fail us. We failed her’ 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z The usual language used for describing how the pill works is too often a mix of half-truths, platitudes, and a simple fudging of the facts. How does the pill work? You asked Google - here’s the answer | Holly Grigg-Spall 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z Donald Trump—and Bill Clinton—often get away with half-truths and outright embellishments, enjoying a kind of hall pass reserved for roguish but charming football team captains. The Truth About Why People Hate Hillary Clinton 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z They like to gauge if the customer is buying all the half-truths and less than completely honest rhetoric they are peddling. Who Hates Free Trade Treaties? Surprisingly, Not Voters 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z “The use of half-truths is a very clever political device. Because as every propagandist knows, you allow the listener to fill in the rest.“ UN human rights boss says Trump would be a global danger as president 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z Arguments are magnified on social media, where half-truths and conspiracy theories jostle for attention with facts and simple slogans often win the day. The risky business of the referendum - BBC News 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z In 2005, the comedian Stephen Colbert, who now hosts The Late Show on CBS, had mocked political deception as “truthiness,” or half-truths with one foot in reality and one foot in fiction. The Truth Is Out There in 2016. Way Out There. 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z A Citizens for Connecting our Communities spokeswoman says the campaign is full of misguided half-truths. Group forms in opposition to Detroit-area transit millage 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Allowing half-truths or outright lies to go unchallenged is to give them standing it is claimed; the moderator somehow complicit if they don't set the record straight. Moderate Moderators 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Almost no question that the congenital liar will win the election, and the nation will be subject to four more years of her lies, obfuscations, half-truths and appearances of impropriety. As Clinton-Trump Race Tightens, Here’s How Forecast Models Differ 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Asked if he would ever tell the whole truth about their relationship, he answered, “I think I have told the truth,” adding, “In lawyer land, a half-truth is a truth.” Christopher Darden, O.J. Simpson prosecutor, admits he and Marcia Clark ‘were more than friends’ 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z One of the most recent pieces, “Democrats step up pursuit of House Republicans left limping by Donald Trump,” by Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin, is a masterful collection of blinkered horse-race half-truths. The real New York Times scandal: Ignoring why Democrats can’t win the House 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Prop this picture up by some half-truth here and there and allow the natural prejudice of people to fill in the rest. Read U.N. Human Rights Chief's Speech Criticizing Trump 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Promises to recover such a past were “fiction; its merchants are cheats. Clever cheats,” he said, accusing populist leaders of using “half-truths and oversimplification” to feed the fears of “anxious” individuals. 'Demagogues and cheats': UN rights chief condemns Trump and Wilders 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z “Populists use half-truths and oversimplification — the two scalpels of the arch propagandist,” the U.N. UN Rights Chief Compares Western Right-Wing Leaders to ISIS 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Against a backdrop of economic austerity, fear of immigration and mercurial public opinion, Brexit provided a fertile breeding-ground for lies and half-truths to gain traction. Britain’s Referendum Was Not a Triumph of Democracy 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Others are journalists behaving like politicians, dishing up half-truths and whole lies. As a lifelong English European, this is the biggest defeat of my political life | Timothy Garton Ash 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z But in its mode of communication, its use of half-truths and oversimplification, the propaganda of Da’esh uses tactics similar to those of the populists. Read U.N. Human Rights Chief's Speech Criticizing Trump 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z “And I am angry too. Because of Mr Wilders’s lies and half-truths, manipulations and peddling of fear,” Zeid told the inauguration of the Peace, Justice and Security Foundation in The Hague. 'Demagogues and cheats': UN rights chief condemns Trump and Wilders 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z He continues to pile on with the standard Republican litany of half-truths, pretending that the country “is less secure than when she began.” 2016 election: No comparison between candidates; choose no evil; third party time 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z The company cannot escape by relying on “misleading half-truths,” he added. Divided Supreme Court once again decides a case without settling it 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z At Faker U, we promote a culture of limited inquiry through creative half-truths within and beyond the Faker community. A football school where your alma mater is your alibi 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Because of Mr. Wilder’s lies and half-truths, manipulations and peddling of fear. Read U.N. Human Rights Chief's Speech Criticizing Trump 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z The answer was childish and flippant, and wholly characteristic of the steady stream of puerile insults, half-truths, untruths and innuendo that make up much of Mr. Trump’s campaign. Memorial Day lessons 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z In a half-truth, half-deception, Trump conceded that several of his companies filed for bankruptcy, but Trump boasted that he never filed for bankruptcy himself, personally. Hillary Must Debunk the Notion That Trump’s Wealth Qualifies Him for President 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z "Once again, Jeff Louis and Robert Dickey are misleading investors with half-truths and conjecture designed to mask their desperate need to acquire Tribune Publishing to save their own business and their positions," the company said. Gannett, Tribune Publishing execs trade barbs as takeover battle heats up 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Greene’s identity was a collection of half-truths and hints. The Mysterious Woman Behind J.P. Morgan's Library 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Populists use half-truths and oversimplification — the two scalpels of the arch propagandist, and here the internet and social media are a perfect rail for them, by reducing thought into the smallest packages: sound-bites; tweets. Read U.N. Human Rights Chief's Speech Criticizing Trump 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z One-percent poachers are typically loaners when poaching but share half-truths about their pursuits. Game warden creates ‘profile’ of serial poachers 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z As a former colleague, Sarah Helm, has recalled: “Johnson’s half-truths created a new reality … correspondents witnessed Johnson shaping the narrative that morphed into our present-day populist Euroscepticism.” Post-truth politicians such as Donald Trump and Boris Johnson are no joke | Jonathan Freedland 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z He thinks it's okay to repeat half-truths, whole lies, and figments of his deserted imagination. Donald Trump or Paul Ryan: Who’s King of the Hill? 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z While there are compelling half-truths about this right-wing populism in Sullivan’s argument, there are a few things dangerously wrong in it. Andrew Sullivan is in denial: America’s elites brought this on themselves 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z He said last week he told an imaginative half-truth when he said “there’s a link right now, that if you had, you would have access to the records.” Supreme Court Won't Release D.C. Madam Records 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Instead, he says, he told an imaginative half-truth. D.C. Madam Attorney Says One Ex-Wife, Two Ex-Girlfriends Have Election Bombshell Records 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z It was a tale enveloped in half-truths, exaggerations and the wishful thinking of the National Geographic Society, which sponsored the expedition. An Insurance Salesman and a Doctor Walk Into a Bar, and End Up at the North Pole 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z “They take things out of context. They tell half-truths. “Our goal is not to help a political party,” McCabe added. The door-to-door union killers: rightwing foundation takes labor fight to the streets 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Two months into 2016 and the presidential campaigns have littered half-truths, sophistry, nonsense, trick phone calls, fake voter violations, lies, made-up numbers, poor photoshop skills and ads about the US that show entirely different countries. South Carolina primary and Nevada caucus pit Trump v Cruz and Clinton v Sanders – live 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z With reputable-sounding names like The Ecologist and Global Research, they produce slick websites that weave facts, half-truths and pseudoscientific analysis into sinister assertions. Conspiracy Theories About Zika Spread Along With the Virus 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z Yet the absence of the blustery candidate did not stop the GOP presidential hopefuls from issuing a plethora of falsehoods and half-truths. The 5 most glaring lies from the GOP’s brutal seventh debate 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z Nicholas Bequelin, Amnesty International's East Asia regional director, posted on Twitter that the segment was “a very elaborate script, and a skillful mix of truths, half-truths and outright lies.” Mystery deepens as two missing Hong Kong men surface in mainland China 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z I know there are lots of half-truths that will be thrown at me increasingly because we’re winning here. Exclusive: John Kasich Not Betting on New Hampshire Win 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z The intention is to set the work in historical context, and to show how Hitler wove truth with half-truth and outright lie. ‘Mein Kampf’: From Best-Seller to Blacklist 1457-04-09T05:00:00Z Between neighbors, teachers and parents, companies and unions, or politicians and their constituents, we value frank and open conversation instead of muddled half-truths. Drug Pricing Dishonesty 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Another GOP debate, another steaming pile of half-truths, lies and pseudo-facts. The 10 most bald-faced lies from the final Republican debate of 2015 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z The intention is to set the work in historical context, to show how Hitler wove truth with half-truth and outright lie, and thus to defang any propagandistic effect while revealing Nazism. Scholars Unveil New Edition of Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z But we’re going to get pounded by a bunch of half-truths I’m sure. Exclusive: John Kasich Not Betting on New Hampshire Win 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z Householder said at the time the memo contained “half-truths and outright lies.” Ex-Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder eyeing old seat 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z “So it’s kind of a half-truth” that Michigan invented Script Ohio, he said. Ohio State Band Shows Flair Even as It Sticks to the Script 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z The notion of “new information” is, at best, a half-truth. N.C.A.A. Clears Players, Then Absolves Itself 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z But because they are much likelier to vote for the Democrats, whom Republicans traduce as the party of scroungers, this is another half-truth that polarisation has reinforced. The trouble with being right 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Netanyahu uttered a half-truth when he referred to Hitler’s supposed desire to expel, rather than murder, the Jews. What Hitler and the Grand Mufti Really Said 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Slaughter skillfully exposes half-truths in the workplace, such as viewing the scarcity of female leaders as a “women’s problem” instead of a “care problem.” Is ‘having it all’ as simple as getting men to demand that, too? 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z In our sullied national politics of abundantly veneered résumés and blatant half-truths, whenever a popular candidate's spoken words seethe with an evident worthlessness, the crowd rushes to applaud. How Far We Have Fallen 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z However, given the reality we face, Israel would be best served if we objectively examined the situation rather than spreading fear and half-truths, which are nothing more than political tools. Israeli lawmaker: Iran deal will lower nuclear threat to Israel 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z Without an authoritative explanation, the media crackled with lies, rumors and half-truths. Legionnaires' disease has tripled nationwide: study 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z A cycle of distrust will run throughout your whole business network if you depend on half-truths. Why Your Business Should Tell The Whole Truth And Nothing But The Truth 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z This kind of intolerance is rarely blatant — it’s hidden behind legitimately arguable gripes and clouded in half-truths. Why do you really hate Kanye West? 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z But these statements are half-truths, in that the middling cutbacks follow years of vast giveaways. Overregulating Life in Greece 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z But as people discuss the text—and politicians respond—the pope’s message will almost surely be injected with rumors and half-truths. The pope's five most important environmental arguments 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Since the documentary's broadcast he has restated the forceful denials he gave the BBC and ProPublica, dismissing the allegations as "false assumptions and half-truths" to "further personal agendas". Salazar: The big questions answered 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z He added that the "allegations your sources are making are based upon false assumptions and half-truths in an attempt to further their personal agendas." Former assistant accuses Salazar of encouraging doping 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Salazar told the BBC the “allegations your sources are making are based upon false assumptions and half-truths in an attempt to further their personal agendas”. Alberto Salazar Accused of Breaking Doping Rules 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Worse yet, Benga left no written account of his own life – and others have since filled the gap with denials, conspiratorial silence, half-truths, and even flagrant deception. The man who was caged in a zoo | Pamela Newkirk 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z The magazine further tried to cover up with “half-truths, untruths and flat-out lies” as the story unraveled. UVA dean files $7.85m defamation suit against Rolling Stone for rape story 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z The way prosecutors see it, ex-CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling is a devious malcontent who spread classified half-truths to a New York Times reporter, seriously harming national security. Judge faces choices in sentencing CIA leaker 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z The ads are teeming with half-truths, speculative harms, and massive spin. Their Product Is Doubt - Deceptive Government Campaign Against Electronic Cigarettes 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z “Fabrications, misstatements, half-truths, artful omissions and the failure to correct misstatements may be acceptable, albeit lamentable, in other aspects of life,” he wrote. Judge Refuses to Allow Obama’s Immigration Actions to Proceed 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z She is generous about the lies and half-truths: Reinventing your own stories, she writes, is “one of the benefits and requirements of immigration.” The Brothers Who Became the Boston Marathon Bombers 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z Actually, they are more like “white lies”, fibs, half-truths and embellishments. The 9 Most Common Lies Agencies Tell Clients During A Pitch 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z “Typically if a half-truth worked well once, the professional will continue to leverage it and bake it into their professional narrative,” Randall said. Brian Williams suspended for it, but everybody embellishes 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z The ironically named “Fact Sheet” is anything but—it is filled with half-truths and internal contradictions. The Truth Behind The FCC's "Fact Sheet" 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Yet the film, the autobiography of the same name, and the reputation of Chris Kyle are all built on a set of half-truths, myths and outright lies that Hollywood didn’t see fit to clear up. 7 enormous lies “American Sniper” is telling America 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z More often than not, these myriad arguments are full of half-truths, lies, and straw-man arguments — the only condition is that there be many of them, not that they be particularly compelling on their own. Kent Hovind Claims Congressmen Are Looking Into His Case In Interview With Tax Blogger 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z They said they never took trade secrets or intellectual property and called Nike’s allegations hurtful, false or “half-truths.” Spying, subterfuge and stolen ‘treasure’: Inside Nike and Adidas’ World War Shoe 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z This is a debate that has come to be dominated by hypocrisy, half-truths and impenetrable complexities. Shades of complexity dominate the debate over ‘net neutrality’ Nigeria's ambassador to the US said accusations that its troops were involved in human rights abuses were based on "half-truths" being spread by political opponents ahead of elections next year. Nigeria army helicopter crashes 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z But Mr Adefuye said the accusations were based on "half-truths", rumours and exaggerated accounts, which were being spread by political opponents ahead of the elections. Nigeria fury over US arms refusal 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z Fact: The story was published by the conservative mouthpiece less than a week before the election - a classic political trick, an October surprise of innuendo and half-truths. Excerpts from recent Wisconsin editorials 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z That’s a half-truth, although the full story may be even more impressive: He managed to piece together a full night’s rest by napping artfully throughout the day. How Edison Invented the Light Bulb — And Lots of Myths About Himself 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z There’s a chapter on McConnell’s hardball political tactics and the slashing television ads, half-truths and pernicious innuendo that have characterized many of his campaigns. Book review: ‘The Cynic: Political Education of Mitch McConnell,’ by Alec MacGillis A little reading in this area is a dangerous thing because if you are reading anything on the Social Security Administration’s website, you can easily read half-truths. Social Security Q&A: Should a Married Couple Only File for Retirement Benefits at 66 and 70? 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z But there sure are a lot of half-truths, misdirections and outright lies packed into that paragraph. ALEC tries to prove it’s not lying about climate change, fails miserably 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Otherwise we might ponder why, with the acres of great literature and fine collections of words that exist in the world, you are choosing to read this assortment of half-truths and nonsense. Football transfer rumours: Fergie to tempt Ronaldo to Manchester United? 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Such reckless half-truths and untruths would have been depressing to hear even on the radical fringe Mr Ali inhabits. How a nation went mad 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z I was so blown away by the significant omissions and half-truths in the article that I felt compelled to politely call the reporter, who I knew, for some answers. The Gina Raimondo Rhode Island State Treasurer Story That Major Media Nearly Missed 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z A heinous grind of rumours, half-truths, paperwork and top bantz involving funsters waving special private bedroom time accoutrements in the faces of increasingly weary Sky Sports News presenters, perhaps. Football transfer rumours: did anyone want Tom Cleverley or Anderson? 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z And as usual, that was all the conservative media needed to start pushing half-truths and complete nonsense into the national conversation. Secrets of the right-wing lie machine: How Rush Limbaugh and others distorted CNN’s Ferguson scoop 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z “The fog of war” is a metaphor of choice for war’s blinding physical and moral confusions, its half-truths, lies, ambiguities, distortions and deceptions. Israel Has a Duty to Defend Its People in Gaza 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z The lies, half-truths, and aggressive assertions of Putin and the thugs of “People’s Republic of Donetsk” are resolutely in the Soviet tradition. To Deter Putin, Rediscover Reagan 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z The problem, though, is that both Israelis and Palestinians increasingly believe their own half-truths. Israel and Palestine Are Lost in a Cycle of Hypocrisy in Gaza 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z Blaming Hamas — and only Hamas — for the conditions in Gaza is a half-truth. Uncovering the real story in Gaza Familiar, finally, is the posturing and the doublespeak, Hamas’s Big Lie countered by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s half-truths. Watching Gaza 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Money can buy poetic justice, but a trail of half-truths and innuendo doesn’t disappear on its own—not from conspiratorial minds, and certainly not from the Internet. From Accused Terrorist to Medical Adventurer There’s an old church saying: “A half-truth is a whole lie.” Pacer's Paul George Shows Why Statistics Lie 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Indeed, Mr. Soldatov told The Daily Beast that Mr. Putin’s answer was, if not an outright lie, “a half-truth.” The Lede: Snowden Defends His Part in Putin Forum 2014-04-18T20:56:56Z "Like all good propaganda, it's a mix of truth, half-truth and outrageous lies," Black wrote of the SPLC. Racist online forums linked to deadly U.S. hate crimes: rights group 2014-04-18T04:01:33Z Their origin, he argued, lay in the constellation of arbitrary decisions, national self-mythologizing and received half-truths under which the government had long operated. Jonathan Schell, Author Who Explored War, Dies at 70 2014-03-27T01:03:54Z To get it, he’s apparently willing to engage in a lot of half-truth telling and vague accusations. Netflix Decides The Free Market Isn't So Good After All, Wants Government To Step In 2014-03-21T12:20:00Z He told the audience that he wanted to "inform the discussion with facts" rather than the "half-truths and distortions" he accused Mr Snowden of using. NSA hits back on Snowden spy leaks 2014-03-20T20:02:03Z Ledgett repeatedly challenged assertions made by Snowden in his Tuesday appearance, saying he didn’t consider the former NSA contractor a true whistleblower and accusing him of peddling “half-truths and distortions.” At TED, NSA's Deputy Director Says 'President Madison Would've Been Proud' 2014-03-20T18:10:00Z Much of what we hear today about advertising online is a tired debate focused on abstract threats to privacy and a weak defense filled with half-truths about benefits and “free” services. How Advertisers Can Use Your Personal Information To Get You To Pay Higher Prices 2014-01-30T18:38:00Z "The tiny truths in there are intertwined with half-truths and misdirection," he said in a statement. North Carolina police say teenager in custody shot himself 2014-01-11T02:09:34Z In reality, science progresses in subtle degrees, half-truths and chance. The Replication Myth: Shedding Light on One of Science s Dirty Little Secrets 2013-12-04T23:15:51.986Z Dr Robert Zigler, director of the International Rice Research Institute in Manila - a non-profit, independent body involved in developing Golden Rice - said that some campaigners exercise "an aggressive manipulation of half-truths". AUDIO: Is it 'wicked' to oppose GM crops? 2013-10-14T16:00:40Z “There were cases of blatant lying, but these half-truths form more than half of our analysis,” said study author Adrienne E. Faerber. Study Finds Most Drug Commercials Misleading 2013-09-28T13:15:00.587Z The American public was led into the blood-drenched deserts of Iraq for eight disastrous years by the George W. Bush administration’s half-truths and outright lies. Obama’s Weasel Words 2013-09-10T08:45:00Z And over the next 15 years, the Apology Line recorded more than a half-million messages: apologies, confessions, delusions, truths, half-truths and everything in between. For Apologists, a Confessional Phone Line Is Reborn 2013-08-19T03:16:39Z But Shukman's characterisation of the new Eos paper is a combination of falsehood and half-truth. Peak oil lives, but will kill the economy 2013-07-22T18:41:00Z “If law enforcement purposely provides half-truths and contrived stories to conceal even the existence of a C.I.,” Judge Says Police and U.S. Agents Misled Court in Manhattan Gun Possession Case 2013-07-01T00:47:43Z Mr. Johnson has repeatedly and vehemently denied any wrongdoing; a court filing by his defense team describes the F.T.C.’s argument as “filled with half-truths, distortions and inflammatory rhetoric that is not supported by the evidence.” In Utah, a Local Hero Accused 2013-06-15T19:15:59Z This contention is a half-truth that leaves out two key details. Austerity never works: Deficit hawks are amoral — and wrong 2013-05-05T16:00:00Z You get used to telling half-truths, telling lies, telling stories about making up fictitious girlfriends or whatever it is. Jason Collins says response to coming out has ‘been remarkable’ 2013-05-04T20:22:00Z The president’s press conference was jammed with half-truths, evasions and out-and-out misrepresentation, some so stunning that even mainstream reporters took to snarking in their tweets. Obama discusses Boston, Guantanamo, Syria in press conference 2013-04-30T21:42:47Z It’s tough to continue to live with lies and half-truths. Frank Bruni's Blog: Q&A with Jason Collins 2013-04-30T17:27:36Z Without this understanding, in which definition plays a key part, social enterprises face an uphill battle against the tide of half-truths and suspicion that is all to quick to fill the clarity void. Secret Social Entrepreneur 2013-04-09T07:00:04Z You see with a single vote some evidence of how the world changes — reason triumphing over the half-truths that bind a political party together, one crazy idea at a time. Top Opinions of the Week 2013-03-01T19:21:26Z According to intelligence officials and the incomplete public record, detainees who endured varying degrees of physical force did tell their interrogators some truths, as well as half-truths and outright lies. ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Torture Scenes Reopen Debate 2012-12-13T04:03:39Z My real problem is with the lies, innuendos, distortions and half-truths in Chen’s article. Infamous Reddit troll loses job after Gawker expose 2012-10-15T21:59:00Z Failed bosses tried to manipulate employees using half-truths that left false impressions. What Science Says About Successful Bosses 2012-10-04T12:00:47Z He said that the government is "really engaged in half-truths and creative accounting." DealBook Column: Plot Twist in the A.I.G. Bailout: It Actually Worked 2012-09-11T00:51:34Z The usual tired old lies and half-truths, with just a hint of racism. 'Scrap Senate' to boost flood aid 2012-08-29T15:48:37Z Schuyler Geller, another retired colonel who served in Afghanistan, accused the U.S. leadership in his prepared testimony of "providing half-truths" in the hospital case, including about widespread corruption in the Afghan government. U.S. commander accused of stalling Afghan hospital abuse probe 2012-07-24T05:08:34Z The New England Journal of Medicine once described his work as “psychopharmacological McCarthyism that compels him to use half-truths, innuendo and unverifiable assertions.” Dr. Gabriel Nahas, Researcher Who Waged a Campaign Against Marijuana, Dies at 92 2012-07-07T15:25:19Z More broadly, there is a Mossad mythology that is based on decades of half-truths and rumors. Mossad Strikes Iran 2012-07-07T08:45:00Z The inner sanctum of is a curious place, full of whispers and paranoia, rumours and half-truths. Andy Murray's former coach Miles Maclagan has the inside knowledge 2012-06-29T21:31:01Z You are graduating at a time when our country is desperate for highly educated women and men who will fight to see through the veils of pure self-interest and half-truths. Commencement Speakers: Graduation Speakers Offer Advice, Idealism and Humor 2012-06-17T02:09:02Z All about us is the constant, unquiet drift of gossip and distorted half-truth, as restless as the sand in the desert, dancing and whirling with every puff of wind. One Day at a Time and Other Talks on Life and Religion 2012-03-31T02:00:20.873Z The method is useful as well as necessary, useful because necessary; but we are too apt to forget that we are dealing with half-truths, devices of reason, and come to regard them as whole truths. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z The sweeping half-truth at once suggests its complement to the man who utters it, and may stir very wholesome processes of thought in the milder person who hears it. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z It is to such erratic and occasional ideas, half-truths and deceptions, that philosophy is opposed. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z Leo Strine, Delaware's top business court judge, found a process riven with conflicts of interests and half-truths that runs counter to banks' constant refrains of being all about clients. It's Time for Wall Street to Wash Its Dirty Dishes 2012-03-05T19:28:27Z Chavez, before heading to Cuba for treatment, called on Venezuelans to be on the lookout for the spreading of rumors and half-truths during his absence. Gossip Columnist Lures Investors Tracking Chavez Cancer 2012-02-25T13:52:43Z To retract, therefore, was to dub himself a liar; and he sought refuge, the perspiration standing on his brow, in that half-truth which is at once worse than a lie--and safer. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z I took the half-truth which the public knew and it fitted like a piece of a Chinese puzzle with our discovery. The Four Corners of the World 2012-01-26T03:00:15.920Z A quibble is a half-truth that obscures a whole one. The Honour of the Clintons 2012-01-24T03:00:25.947Z The video, “King of Bain: When Mitt Romney Came to Town,” is riddled with inaccuracies, half-truths and omissions, according to a review of corporate documents and interviews with industry analysts. Gingrich Calls for Withdrawal of Ad Against Romney and Bain 2012-01-14T05:16:25Z Fields said the SEC was presenting "exaggeration, misleading half-truths, or manipulation of facts to present an untrue picture" of him and his firms. Lyons man disputes SEC charges 2012-01-09T17:10:00Z All individuals, regardless of their rank or position, will be held accountable for perpetuating half-truths or misrepresentations about matters materially important to the interest of our country’s investors.” DealBook: S.E.C. Sues 6 Former Top Fannie and Freddie Executives 2011-12-16T16:12:23Z The state has never any concern with truth, but only with the truth useful to it, or rather, with anything that is useful to it, be it truth, half-truth, or error. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z It is because the whole truth is so difficult to disengage here that it looked like the half-truth. The Honour of the Clintons 2012-01-24T03:00:25.947Z "When we launch these campaigns we have to fight against the campaigns of what-ifs, half-truths, and scare tactics," countered Mason. Defeated anti-abortion group unlikely to give up 2011-11-15T17:36:18Z They look askance at the author, as if he had wanted to steal the common property of all, whereas they enjoy highly spiced half-truths, and give the author to understand as much. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z Noticing her interest, their tongues were loosened, and many a half-truth took on the color of whole truth. The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona 2011-10-16T02:00:17.623Z “He repeated the old half-truth about millionaires not paying as much in taxes as their secretaries,” Brooks wrote. Obama, taxes and the ?Buffett Rule? 2011-09-21T10:00:00Z If I was to keep the dearest thing on earth to me, I must make a half-truth seem to guarantee the false remainder, and tell Evie of that cruel Kitty Windus episode. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z Only let us keep it supplied with the truths of the study, and not with the half-truths of the forum. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z Now very roughly he used what was instantly effective—intimidation, based on a half-truth. Wang the Ninth The Story of a Chinese Boy 2011-09-12T02:00:25.620Z And it is why the telling of half-truths doesn’t trouble the unapologetic mayor one bit. City Room: The Day: Ragged Edges Are Showing at N.Y. City Hall 2011-09-06T12:33:40Z Take your advice and divide by two because, honestly, these games are only revealing half-truths because they include little or no game-planning. Warning: Preseason hysteria is especially hazardous this year 2011-08-23T04:19:44Z This is, like so many other things, a half-truth. The Red Room 2011-08-13T02:00:26.943Z But sometimes a half-truth does more harm than a whole lie. The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z There is none of that prevenient idealism which in the north draws a veil over the crudities of sense, and helps to illuminate the half-truths they reveal. Rome 2011-07-24T02:00:10.227Z It was only a half-truth that he told, though. The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z In France, there is much more leeway and allowance for half-truths. Sex, Lies And American Justice: French Still Try To Understand Strauss-Kahn Case 2011-07-02T06:25:00Z For that must have been the way of it—he had told her a half-truth in order to get her away.... Nobody's Child 2011-06-29T02:00:24.827Z But for hiding the unfortunate alliance and posing here as an unmarried girl, the tongue of gossip would undoubtedly drag both her own name and Ford’s through the mire of half-truths and suppositions. The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z We were not entertained with marvellous personal adventures, the extravagant half-truths of a shallow traveller, who is always painting out himself, and not the country he has undertaken to describe. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z The book contained “half-truths and selective facts; sometimes even outright falsehoods,” Singapore High Court Judge Quentin Loh said in his Nov. 3 verdict. U.K. Author Loses Singapore Appeal; Contempt Sentence Upheld 2011-05-27T03:14:15Z She knew that was one of those half-truths which are more misleading than a lie. Love and hatred 2011-05-13T02:00:08.103Z “But the end product is a lot of distortions, half-truths and twisted history.” Using History to Mold Ideas on the Right 2011-05-05T01:12:31Z Pape parried with a half-truth—Dot had sort of bolted up the rocks. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z In handing down the sentence last November, High Court Judge Quentin Loh said the book included a “selective background of truths and half-truths, and sometimes outright falsehoods.” Briton Appeals Sentence Over Book on Singapore's Use of Death Penalty 2011-04-11T13:53:50Z Critics, envious of my Speaker reputation, may carp, and say the tribute's all gas—a half-truth, concealing truth; but the public evidently know where to look for the true critical insight. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, July 8th 1893 2011-03-26T02:00:11.953Z We feel inclined to believe that these statements were half-truths only, and are not a complete statement, by any means, of the conditions and pursuits of his youth. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-10T03:00:45.530Z Given the agency’s willingness to offer up red herrings and half-truths, that may be just as well. TSA Never Tested Full-Body Scans For Mass Transit, Except When It Did 2011-03-09T22:38:57Z In Reference to Judge or Attorneys.—The accused, if questioned, may not conceal the truth by lies, ambiguities, or half-truths, since these are evil means, nor may he use evasion if he is lawfully interrogated. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z The suit claims the weekly newspaper used "lies, half-truths, innuendo and anti-Semitic imagery to smear, malign, defame and slander" Snyder. Redskins owner sues newspaper 2011-02-03T04:26:15Z Since then I've inhabited that anxious purgatory of half-truths and omissions where most of today's responsible parents with "youthful indiscretions" seem to dwell. Drunk horseback riding: Is riding a horse while drunk legal in Montana? 2011-01-17T15:42:00Z Her sins had been those of petty meanness, of shirking and evading, of small self-indulgences and childish tyranny at the expense of others, of vulgar lies and half-truths. Consequences 2011-01-14T03:00:53.047Z But some received principles, especially on the highest and most vital subjects, are more than half-truths. On Liberty 2011-01-12T03:00:34.363Z Now pride and laziness often speak true things, or rather half-truths. The Abiding Presence of the Holy Ghost in the Soul 2011-01-06T03:00:50.440Z Talleyrand began to utter oracular innuendos about the vindictiveness of the allies, the desertion of Murat, the sack of Paris, and various half-truths more dangerous even than lies. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) 2011-01-05T03:00:52.520Z Is it not our anchorage and our joy to run with our little half-truths in our hands and to thrust them upon our neighbour, that he may admire and share them with us? The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z England will view Warne's assessment as a series of half-truths from a friend of Pietersen who believes too much of what he sees on text messages and tweets. The Ashes 2010: England made Kevin Pietersen an outcast, says Warne 2010-11-22T01:15:00Z In response to questions, an attorney for Gladden said The Post's information contained "factual inaccuracies, half-truths, dated information, unsubstantiated allegations by convicted felons and hearsay." Virginia gun dealers: Small number supply most guns tied to crimes 2010-10-25T20:28:00Z The assault on Blumenthal’s Vietnam half-truths didn’t stick with the voters because it didn’t reinforce anything they already believed about him. The Connecticut-Country-Club Crackup 2010-09-25T02:00:00Z "If you choose to speak, speak in full and not in half-truths." Citigroup fined $75m for misleading investors over sub-prime assets 2010-07-29T23:06:00Z Both extremes understand the politics of emotion far better than the economics of immigration, keeping the issue shrouded in half-truths. Scalise: The Economics of Japanese Immigration 2010-04-30T19:36:00Z Several of the recent accusations have proved to be half-truths: While Dr. Pachauri does act as a paid consultant and adviser to many companies, he makes no money from these activities, he said. 2010-02-09T05:23:00Z Father Kircher was not outside this rule, though he was ahead of his generation in the critical faculty that enabled him to eliminate many falsities and to illuminate half-truths in the science of his day. Catholic Churchmen in Science Certainly, we familiarly use such phrases as a half-assent, as we also speak of half-truths; but a half-assent is not a kind of assent any more than a half-truth is a kind of truth. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent Good morning," she said cheerfully: "I can't say this is an unexpected pleasure, for that would be only a half-truth. The Gay Adventure A Romance Half-lights and half-truths may be the utmost which, in these departments, his works will be found to yield. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 This was a half-truth, at least, but Cuban indifference must have had something to do with it. Pioneering in Cuba A Narrative of the Settlement of La Gloria, the First American Colony in Cuba, and the Early Experiences of the Pioneers And in Paradise, it seemed, one was forced to tell only half-truths. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece She condescended to no subterfuges, no half-truths, no beatings about the bush. What a Man Wills He had quietly read the native's mind while the half-truths and lies had fallen from his forked tongue. Insidekick He was not going to allow the interview to start off with a half-truth. A Mixture of Genius His mother accepted his explanation without any suspicion that he had told her only a half-truth. When the Cock Crows In the innermost chambers of her heart she knew that, in spite of the cruel half-truth, what Milly said was not the whole. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece Elijah could not restrain a sigh of relief as he spoke the half-truth. The Vision of Elijah Berl He discovers what befell truths, half-truths, and falsehoods, and under what circumstances of glory or shame. The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse "Why did the nurse confess only a half-truth, then?" Under False Pretences A Novel Proverbs are half-truths, anyway, and "long foretold, long last" has proved less than half of itself this time. Old Plymouth Trails And he so believed it to be, now, the only essential truth, or, at least, the half-truth that she had better believe in, that his smile had not a touch of bitterness. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece Simply to say that Hedda is the incarnation of selfishness is but a half-truth. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Flashes of half-truth commenced to lighten the darkness of his mind, and he pressed his hands against his temples hard, telling himself not to go mad—that everything would come out all right. The Wilderness Trail Hyphenate compounds of half and quarter; half-truth, quarter-circle, half-title, but on account of difference in meaning of quarter, quartermaster, headquarters. Compound Words Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #36 In this as in many a quaint saying of our weather-wise, hill-tramping ancestors, there is more than a half-truth hidden in what seems a humorous distortion. Old Plymouth Trails It lacks the pretentiousness of the Scheme, the snide convolutions of the Grounds and Reasons, the argument by half-truths of the Discourse of Free-Thinking. A Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing (1729) The various stages are half-truths or inadequate conceptions of Christ. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology "A Singhalûsi would have wasted an hour telling me half-truths—distorted enough to confuse, but not sufficiently inaccurate to anger me if I had a spy-cell on him all the time." Sjambak And, as it now stands, though beautifully written, it swarms with non-sequiturs, and perplexing half-truths. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 You're always looking for Truth, with a capital T; but, when it comes to the point, you'd rather have two miserable little half-truths than one honest whole truth about anything. Audrey Craven He passes from one mood to another, none of which seem especially satisfactory to himself, and concludes with one of the half-truths of nineteenth-century thought. Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning There are other heresies, other half-truths scarcely less pernicious than the Arian. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology Remarkable place," I said calmly; "one reads a lot of half-truths about it. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 From them the thoughtful will learn how to complete a 'half-truth' often reiterated. Legends of the Saxon Saints This is one of those half-truths which are simply deceit and disappointment. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society A rhetorical half-truth of this kind, as applied to the entire people, can best be answered in the manner of the modern realists. Australian Writers It calls the opposed propaganda, prejudiced, half-truth, or, as the Germans did, "Lies, All Lies." Introduction to the Science of Sociology Plain speech with Mrs. Tom brought her to the half-truth. The Art of Disappearing They answer to the slow loop waves which enfold the many in amusement and opinion, in suspicion and cruelty and half-truth. Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation McCulloch has not unfrequently exaggerated the half-truths of his doctrines to such an extent as to produce unwittingly a reductio ad absurdum. Principles Of Political Economy She was not one to deal in half-truths and subterfuges. Love of Brothers Of course, it would be but a half-truth to assert that the order places all its emphasis on the sober problems of education. Chapters in Rural Progress The whole substance of your magazine articles has been nothing but half-truths, and a half-truth is worse than a lie. Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated How could he tell this dreadful man the truth? and it did not occur to him to trump up a story or put him off with a half-truth, as some children might have done. Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls Begging your pardon, Miss Piper, but if you come to me fer advice I must have more than half-truths. Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road A most mischievous half-truth has got about that these sayings are not to be taken literally. The School and the World He assumed the indignation of a wronged innocent, and spouted with some heat a torrent of lies and cunning half-truths. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea Mr. Norris has dispensed with the conventional symbols that have crept into art, with the trite, half-truths and circumlocutions, and got back to the physical basis of things. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays And yet it seems to me that the utterance is only a half-truth after all. Over the Fireside with Silent Friends I admire these sayings; but they seem to me, like most epigrams, brilliant statements of half-truths. Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman But both were loose perversions of a half-truth, shifts palliated by the uncertainties of a revolutionary epoch. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) The popular opinions always contain broad fallacies, half-truths, and glib generalizations of fifty years before. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Something more than a half-truth is in Charles Lamb’s theory, that the old comedy ‘has no reference whatever to the world that is’: that it is ‘the Utopia of Gallantry’ merely. The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2] This same world lived long in blissful ignorance that what was stated to be a fact was only the very small portion of a half-truth. Over the Fireside with Silent Friends It is only a half-truth to refer its origin to St. Charles Borromeo; we must account as the true founder the Apostle St. Paul, whose cipher it bears on its arms. The Gods are Athirst Do you know," she answered quietly, "that half-truths may be worse than lies, and a charge which is half-true the most cruelly unjust? Shining Ferry The usual statement of this theory contains some truths, some half-truths, and some errors. The Education of American Girls The remark brings us to the first of the half-truths, which cause the complexity of the subject. The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2] It is the half-truth which clergymen like to utter. Over the Fireside with Silent Friends |
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