1.   To most Victorians, truth seemed a simple matter, only confused by people like Pontius Pilate, of conformity to facts.

2.   Amid charges and counter-charges, the truth seems to be the loser in one of the costliest and nastiest political contests ever to invade the TV airwaves.

3.   But the truth seems as ill-defined as the fading mounds that mark the graves.

4.   In any case, for now, the truth seems hopelessly obscured behind the contradictory statements and elusive judges and officials.

5.   On the basis of past experience, the truth here seems easy enough to surmise.

6.   The truth seems to be that athletes who die young, in general, have perished from one of the usual causes of premature death.

7.   The truth seems to be that she would have been pleased to discuss just about anything.

8.   The truth seemed a complicated mix in this stretch of rolling farmland and newly built subdivisions in western New Jersey.

9.   The truth seems to lie somewhere in between.

10.   The truth seems genuinely more complicated than that.