So that was what he'd meant by telling the true state of affairs to someone special.

Is not this rather the true state of the case?

How could anyone know the true state of the woman when the medication had gone on for so long?

But in their true state I think the mysteries were really good.

Was it possible ever to know the true state of things?

My question then: what is the true state of affairs?

After all these years, I have decided that the only true state of motherhood is the private one.

It may not have had very much to do with her true mental state.

But what is the true state of the market here?

The painting is close to the true state of things.