Sentence examples for a kind of deception from inspiring English sources

Flirting was a kind of deception.

The days I spent reading it alternated between something approaching elation at the book's audacity and vision; and sheer weariness and suspicion, as if it were itself the perpetration of – well, if not a fraud, then a kind of deception.

If a successful work of fiction is an illusionist's trick, then surely successful historical fiction requires a kind of double deception.

"But any kind of deception is wrong!" you might argue.

And yet, while still photography struck Lassnig as a kind of crude deception, the moving image made her hopeful.

Most successful politicians rely on a kind of necessary deception, projecting authenticity and credibility while conducting business in the only way that political business can be conducted: by negotiation.

It's all those lawyers who have erected a kind of apparatus of deception".

This is a kind of self-deception, because he has no real assurance that the Friday feeling will come again.

If you say the song is good, people accuse you of being a Stones apologist, of practicing a kind of self-deception in which you pretend that the band is still relevant.

Bad faith, a kind of self-deception, involves believing or taking oneself to be an X while all along one is (and knows oneself to be) actually a Y.

It's a symptom of an underlying condition: the kind of deception now necessary for Republicans to get elected in non-ultra-red states.