Literary notes about reliable (AI summary)
The term "reliable" is deployed with a wide range of nuances in literature, functioning as a marker of trustworthiness and dependability in both tangible and abstract realms. In historical or factual contexts, it designates sources or data deemed accurate and unerring, whether referring to trustworthy documents [1], solid observations [2], or scientific measurements [3]. In narratives, characters or their statements are often described as reliable to accentuate their honesty or competence, as when a witness is seen as perfectly reliable [4] or a friend's loyalty is underscored by being reliable through hardship [5]. The word also serves metaphorical roles, highlighting consistency in processes or systems, such as a uniformly ticking whale in nature [6] or a methodologically sound approach in philosophy [7].
- (contains also the Letters of Libanius), is the only reliable MS. of Julian, and was once complete except for a few Letters .
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian - What we get from the country is solid, substantial, enduring, reliable.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden - The amount of nitrogen, phosphoric acid, and potash, contained in different foods, has been accurately determined by many able and reliable chemists.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - I have spoken with this policeman to-night and he appears to me to be a perfectly reliable person.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - No better friend—none more reliable through this life of one's ups and downs.
— from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman - The Sperm Whale blows as a clock ticks, with the same undeviating and reliable uniformity.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville - This was required for metaphysics in order to construct its system according to a reliable method.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant
