Sentence examples for Unreliable person from inspiring English sources

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"The only person who put that gun in his hands was a very unreliable person, Brittany Santiago," one juror, Pamela J. Stubbart, said.

"After that I was not included in new projects," said the woman, who spoke on condition that she not be identified, "and after that I felt they saw me as an unreliable person.

He declares himself an unreliable narrator and, in doing so, confronts the audience with a version of the Cretan Liar problem: can you rely on the unreliable person's unreliability?

Why would anyone want to hang out with a completely unreliable person?

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And all you will be thinking about is the project and how unreliable that person is.

"Lenz" is often called a harbinger of European modernism, and one way in which later fiction of mental extremity develops is by replacing even that unstable third-person narrator with a highly unreliable first-person narrator, intensifying the reader's disorientation.

Ishiguro's fiction has certainly mined the complexities involved in the unreliable, first-person narrator.

Both Vee and Nathan are unreliable first-person narrators who withhold crucial information, allowing the reader to share other characters' sense of shock when revelations break through.

This book — Bernhard's "The Loser" — is an extreme form of unreliable first-person narration but at least conforms to a basic generic conventionality.

Dee was at work on the book for many years — the novelist saw the significance and hollowness of the financial boom long before the regulators and cable commentators did — and clearly much of his work went into perfecting an "unreliable" third-person narrative voice: a tone of self-evidence and undefensive self-sympathy in the book's depiction of how our world looks to people like the Moreys.

Equally dated is the use of the hyper-unreliable first-person narrator, a device that had its heyday in the metafiction of the 70's.

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