While the film is primarily a bawdy comedy ( even more so than the Greek play ), it also contains interesting tidbits of historic truth, such as a relatively accurate life-size replica of the Pallas Athene statue by Phidias in the Parthenon.

* 141 Russell Did It-After breaking Nana's cat statue, Mona admits that Russell did it, but learns about telling the truth.

In the cargo bay, Jayne broods about the mudder's selflessness and how it eats at him that, despite Stitch's telling them the truth, they're probably going to put his statue back up.

There is much truth in both these charges, and not many Bourbons deny them.

Poetry for a Persian is nothing less than truth and beauty.

To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.

So great a man could not but understand, too, that the thing that moves men to sacrifice their lives is not the error of their thought, which their opponents see and attack, but the truth which the latter do not see -- any more than they see the error which mars the truth they themselves defend.

I suggested that one must let it in because it is the truth, but Beckett did not take to the word truth.

The central concern of Erich Auerbach's impressive volume called Mimesis is to describe the shift from a classic theory of imitation ( based upon a recognition of levels of truth ) to a Christian theory of imitation in which the levels are dissolved.

For this change is not a change from one positive position to another, but a change from order and truth to disorder and negation.

This, however, cannot be done by a community whose very experience of truth is confused and incoherent: it has no absolute standard, and consequently cannot distinguish the absolute from the contingent.

Its ontological status is itself most tenuous because apart from individual men, who are its `` matter '', tradition, the `` form '' of society exists only as a shared perception of truth.

And the direction of that movement is determined by his perception of the truth about himself.

And it would seem that history is a witness to this truth.

The basic truth in the reactionary response is to be found in its realistic assumption of the primacy of the real over the ideational.

But this truth is distorted by its extreme application: the assumption of the separate existence of tradition.

Whatever the psychological truth in the Oedipus myth, an Oedipus who is drawn to his fate by irresistible external forces can carry the symbol of humanity and its archaic crime, and the incest that is unknowing renews the mystery of the eternal dream of childhood and absorbs us in the secret.

But a modern Oedipus who is doomed because he cannot oppose his own childhood is only pathetic, and for renouncing the mystery in favor of psychological truth he gives up the claim on our sympathies.

Mann understood better than most men the incest comedy at the center of the myth and the psychological truth in which dread is shown as the other face as longing was for him just the kind of deep and complicated joke he liked to tell.

But however we come, finally, to explain and account for the present, the truth we are trying to expose, right now, is that the makers of constitutions and the designers of institutions find it difficult if not impossible to anticipate the behavior of the host of all their enterprises.

Its truth is illustrated by the skill, sensitivity, and general expertise of the English professor with whom one attends the theatre.

This truth that the moral law is natural has other important corollaries.

Nogaret is hardly an impartial witness, and even he did not make his charges against Boniface until the latter was dead, but there is some truth in what he said and more in what he did not say.

The general consensus as a new decade began was that the straightforward “ realism ” of the previous decade, while manifesting the brutal “ truth ” of contemporary Spanish life under Franco, ultimately failed politically in that it directly modeled the very transparent discourse used so effectively by the authoritarian regime to crush the very opposition to which these writers aspired.

Statements whose truth value may change are modeled by relational fluents, predicates which take a situation as their final argument.

Models of concepts are usually built by analysts who are not primarily concerned about the truth or falsity of the concepts being modeled.

`` They are also honest seekers after truth.

A frustrated judge in an English ( adversarial ) court finally asked a barrister after witnesses had produced conflicting accounts, ' Am I never to hear the truth?

Banquo remains skeptical after the encounter, wondering aloud if evil can ever speak the truth.

In a 1985 interview on Yorkshire Television's Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers, Elsie said that she and Frances were too embarrassed to admit the truth after fooling Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes: " Two village kids and a brilliant man like Conan Doyle – well, we could only keep quiet.

In the play Oedipus Rex by Ancient Greek playwright Sophocles, the title character discovers the truth about his origins after questioning various witnesses.

The origin of the goes back to Gottfried Leibniz, who in the seventeenth century, after having constructed a successful mechanical calculating machine, dreamt of building a machine that could manipulate symbols in order to determine the truth values of mathematical statements.

At first, he is mistaken for a murderer by the four people because he shoots at them through the door ( mistaking them as the Evil Force ), but they find out the truth after listening to a recording of Annie's father, Professor Knowby ( John Peaks ), that talked about how his wife Henrietta was possessed and buried in the cabin's cellar rather than dismembered.

In 2001, religious authorities in the United Arab Emirates issued a fatwā against the children's game Pokémon, after finding that it encouraged gambling, and was based on the theory of evolution, " a Jewish-Darwinist theory, that conflicts with the truth about humans and with Islamic principles ".

The most famous parody of the Gothic is Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey ( 1818 ) in which the naive protagonist, after reading too much Gothic fiction, conceives herself a heroine of a Radcliffian romance and imagines murder and villainy on every side, though the truth turns out to be much more prosaic.

Sarris interrogates Jason about the Omega 13 and forces him to admit the truth about Galaxy Quest to Mathesar, who is heartbroken after learning that Jason and his crew are make-believe.

Although Magyar tribes only began to settle in the geographical area of present-day Hungary in the very end of the 9th century, some 450 years after the dissolution of the Hunnic tribal confederation, Hungarian prehistory includes Magyar origin myths, which may have preserved some elements of historical truth.

If, however, a non-Jew devotes himself to serious search after divine truth, his merit is so much the more signal ; and whatever suggestion he may have to offer, no Jew dares refuse with levity.

The validity of the dating methodology has subsequently been called into question, and the age of the shroud is still the subject of much debate despite the existence of a 1389 Memorandum by Bishop Pierre D ' Arcis to the Avignon Antipope Clement VII mentioning that the image had previously been denounced by his predecessor Henri de Poitiers ( Bishop of Troyes 1353-1370 ), stating " Eventually, after diligent inquiry and examination, he discovered how the said cloth had been cunningly painted, the truth being attested by the artist who had painted it, to wit, that it was a work of human skill and not miraculously wrought or bestowed.

The poet is separated from the rest of humanity after he is exposed to the power to create and is able to witness visions of truth.

Niggle's yearnings after truth and beauty ( God's creations ) are echoed in his great painting ; after death, Niggle is rewarded with the realization ( the making-real ) of his yearning.

Shortly after the birth, Maria Eleonora was in no condition to be told the truth about the baby's sex, and the king and court waited several days before breaking the news to her.

Although there has been an attempt to demonstrate any link between the Red Brigades and foreign State Security Services, nothing has been proved and such an idea has always been rejected by all the militants that after years of prison decided to speak their truth in books, interviews etc.

On the other hand, BR founder Alberto Franceschini declared after his release from an 18-year prison term that " The BR continue to exist because we never proceeded to their funeral ", calling for truth from every involved party in order to be able to turn the page.

In its first chapter, titled " The Mystery of the Church ," is the famous statement that " the sole Church of Christ which in the Creed we profess to be one, holy, catholic and apostolic, which our Saviour, after His Resurrection, commissioned Peter to shepherd, and him and the other apostles to extend and direct with authority, which He erected for all ages as ' the pillar and mainstay of the truth.

In the years soon after death, when scholars approached me, I tried to take their apparently serious concern for the truth about Sylvia Plath seriously.

Ted Williams was born in San Diego as Teddy Samuel Williams, named after his father, Samuel Stuart Williams, and former President, Teddy Roosevelt, although Williams claimed that his middle name stemmed from one of his mother's brothers ( in truth, her dead brother was Daniel Venzor ) who had been killed in World War I.

" Latter-day Saints believe that the Bible lost some of its originally intended meaning and doctrine as spoken by the ancient prophets and apostles because of this taking away of plain and precious truths by some Gentile teachers and compilers soon after the death of the apostles, though the Bible remained an important source of truth as attested by Nephi.

In its first chapter, titled " The Mystery of the Church ," is the famous statement that " the sole Church of Christ which in the Creed we profess to be one, holy, catholic and apostolic, which our Saviour, after His Resurrection, commissioned Peter to shepherd, and him and the other apostles to extend and direct with authority, which He erected for all ages as ' the pillar and mainstay of the truth.

: after they had been instructed by the glorious events of Christ's life and taught by the light of the Spirit of truth