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  • The first, in which, at the time of writing, the suppressio veri was too strong for her conscience, had now become an honest letter, and sadly folding it she sent the missive on its way.

    Two on a Tower 2006

  • It must be difficult - to reconcile the BBCs ancient mission to report news and its more modern mission to produce the perfectly tolerant society, even at the price of - shall we say suppressio veri?

    Archive 2004-05-16 Laban 2004

  • It must be difficult - to reconcile the BBCs ancient mission to report news and its more modern mission to produce the perfectly tolerant society, even at the price of - shall we say suppressio veri?

    May 16, 2004 Laban 2004

  • It must be difficult - to reconcile the BBCs ancient mission to report news and its more modern mission to produce the perfectly tolerant society, even at the price of - shall we say suppressio veri ?

    UK Commentators Laban 2004

  • One nation is so habituated to spin, exaggeration, half-truth, suppressio veri and suggestio falsi that they are genuinely unable to tell when they are guilty of these practices themselves.

    UK Commentators Laban 2003

  • One nation is so habituated to spin, exaggeration, half-truth, suppressio veri and suggestio falsi that they are genuinely unable to tell when they are guilty of these practices themselves.

    Archive 2003-08-31 Laban 2003

  • Pretty well everything that has been preserved “for the record,” with the instruction of posterity consciously in mind, is riddled with suppressio veri and suggestio falsi, tending to the glorification of the interests which caused the document to be prepared, and to the vilification of their enemies.

    ON THE EVE OF THE MILLENNIUM CONOR CRUISE O’BRIEN 1994

  • Pretty well everything that has been preserved “for the record,” with the instruction of posterity consciously in mind, is riddled with suppressio veri and suggestio falsi, tending to the glorification of the interests which caused the document to be prepared, and to the vilification of their enemies.

    ON THE EVE OF THE MILLENNIUM CONOR CRUISE O’BRIEN 1994

  • Pretty well everything that has been preserved “for the record,” with the instruction of posterity consciously in mind, is riddled with suppressio veri and suggestio falsi, tending to the glorification of the interests which caused the document to be prepared, and to the vilification of their enemies.

    ON THE EVE OF THE MILLENNIUM CONOR CRUISE O’BRIEN 1994

  • Its title is, indeed, in a most peculiar way a misnomer, since Masson attacks Freud not for assaulting truth but for retreating from it, and the assault described is Masson's on Freud, whom he accuses of cowardice, on his literary executors, whom he accuses of suppressio veri, and on contemporary analysts, whom he accuses of ignoring the real violence inflicted on children.

    A Case of Hysteria Rycroft, Charles 1984

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