truth
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“I think that one was kind of surprising, to tell you the truth, and that can be quite powerful,” Barabas, the Dartmouth professor, told me.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2026
They were now “close to my other children…But even then, no one knew the full truth about how they were conceived until just a few weeks ago.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
The surprise inclusion of a certain actor and staged reenactments are among the film’s non-conventional elements that expose the tensions between performance, nonfiction and truth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
And once you swallow that bitter truth, it’ll be much easier to take a sharper eye to their content, which seems endless.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
The families would want me to tell the truth, somehow, about what had happened to their sons and how it was my fault that it happened.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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Considered alongside an excellent lineup of contemporaries, “You Can See Everything” stresses that the genre isn’t about uncovering truths, but playing with our subjective relationship to them.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026
Both leads are exceptional, with Zischler articulating the great writer’s arrogance and willful denial of the inconvenient truths he wants to ignore.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
In the University of Wyoming’s Cowboy Leadership Experience—the best-named executive education program, hands down—participants reckon with harsh truths about human nature.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Yet Berrada's cautious stance underlined a few home truths.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
How would she know the truths from the untruths?
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
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