truthfulness

The simple truthfulness of its noble work wins the heart and the applause of every visitor, be he learned or ignorant.

Even without, much humor Trollope's books have been a vast pleasure to me through their simple truthfulness. Perhaps if they were more humorous they would not be so true to the British life and character present in them in the whole length and breadth of its expansive commonplaceness.

Truthfulness: they will never intentionally receive into their mind falsehood, which is their detestation, and they will love the truth.

"Yes." Pollyanna hesitated, then continued with her usual truthfulness. "You see, I wanted Dr.

As to my adventure among the elephants he heard it with amazement, declaring that he could not have believed it had not my truthfulness been well known to him.

In his teaching alone do we meet with truthfulness upheld as the highest virtue--i.e.: the reverse of the COWARDICE of the

She resents, for all the world like some high little personage, the imputation on her truthfulness and, as it were, her respectability.

I trust you because I know that you are not cursed with the terrible trait of absolute and unswerving truthfulness, that you could lie like one of your own Virginia gentlemen if a lie would save others from sorrow or suffering.

The artist prefers a hilly country because it is picturesque; the engineer a flat one because it is convenient; the man of pleasure likes what he calls "a fine woman"--she suits him; the fashionable young gentleman admires the fashionable young lady--she is of his kind; the toil-worn, fagged, probably irritable tutor, blind almost to beauty, insensible to airs and graces, glories chiefly in certain mental qualities: application, love of knowledge, natural capacity, docility, truthfulness, gratefulness, are the charms that attract his notice and win his regard.

Philip's truthfulness made it difficult for him to answer, but he was naturally polite.

yet with what originality of effect in that truthfulness, when he writes, for instance:

For our sakes, Prince,--come, I will say for the sake of those who are grateful to you for your candor and truthfulness, for the lessons you have tried to teach us,--make use of my car.