That's her answer for almost everything, probably because it buys her precious seconds to think of a good excuse or an acceptable lie.
The strength of the repertory company A Noise Within -- whose actors range from very good to, at minimum, acceptable -- lies, for my money, in its consistent respect for a dramatist's vision, scenes and words.
Acceptable lies: The ones that serve to protect children from information that would hurt them; the ones that help foster imagination and belief in an age-appropriate way, like in the case of Santa; or lies that that aren't exactly lies, but some small withholding of the truth, because you fear they don't yet have the capacity to deal with or understand the facts.
Overall, the mean level of satisfaction with the process was acceptable, lying between 'quite satisfied' and 'very satisfied', although the scores for the 'interview' group were significantly better than for those receiving the information by letter.
In the medium social influence case, if an acceptable threshold lies between $6995/year and $9393/year, then the optimal decision would be Treat Boundary Spanners, whereas if the acceptable threshold exceeds $9393/year, then the optimal decision would be Treat All.
It's like when a guy with whom you have had no chemistry all evening says, "I'll call you," an acceptable social lie and much nicer than the guy adding, "When you are the last woman on earth and I have a gun to my head, and even then, when we sleep together, I'll be picturing someone else".
"The project, in its initial conception," he wrote in a 2011 essay, "expressed my true feelings about the milieu in which I was raised, and my belief that one always has to hide one's true desires and beliefs behind a facade of socially acceptable lies".
(Admittedly, I still get a charge when a TGIF waiter cards me). I would argue that Botox, fillers and plastic surgery are an acceptable form of lying, so what's the big deal if I keep the truth from Eva?
But at the very least, that was the assumption, or the acceptable lie.
I do not condone such license-taking and I shudder to start separating out the acceptable lies from the unacceptable, but I also do not want one candidate held to a standard that no other can pass or to set a verbal trap for anyone with half a conscience.
