Sentence examples for and mendacity from inspiring English sources

But exaggeration, inexactitude and mendacity are the currency of politics.

Such is their brazen venality, complicity, contempt and mendacity.

He quickly discovered the generosity as well as the cowardice and mendacity of great artists.

At the core of the serious spy novel is the notion of duplicity and mendacity.

Perhaps the jockeying for power, the hypocrisy and naked ambition and mendacity had just not had a chance to flower.

It revealed espionage as the devious, sly, unscrupulous practice of deception and mendacity – all for Queen and country.

John Boehner promised one last week, but we heard nothing more than the same Democratic slams, half-truths and mendacities that are his stock-and-trade.

In an age of reality television, journalistic fakery and political mendacity everyone knows that words and images can distort and mislead.

Alan Roberts wrote in the Adelaide Advertiser that Bare-faced Messiah was a "minutely researched, densely evidenced account" of the "endless catalogue of deception, distortion and psychopathological mendacity" perpetrated by Hubbard and "almost tediously chronicled" by Miller.

Along with the variety of styles and subject has gone a consistency of themes and preoccupations, three of which he announced in that first film, sex, lies and videotape: eroticism, mendacity and a fascination with technique.

One inevitable result, argues Dr. Lance Dodes of Harvard, is his pervasive and destabilizing mendacity: "the lies he tells others… and those he tells himself".