Sentence examples for be deceptive to from inspiring English sources

And we expect our suicidal pilots to be deceptive, to at least try to make the crash look like an accident.

Muscles get stronger quickly, but the weakness can be deceptive to begin with and astronauts have reported straining their necks by turning their heads too quickly.

Was Romney trying to be deceptive — to tell people not to be worried when they should be — or was he just confused?

But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one.

First appearances can be deceptive to new visitors to D.C. Edmund Wilson once observed that Washington, "after other American cities, seems at first such a relief, so agreeable," but "turns out, when one has stayed there any length of time, to have little personality of its own and to come to taste rather flat".

Labels that list the nutrition information for outdated serving sizes may be deceptive to consumers, and I commend FDA for its recognition of the need to revise the RACCs for specific foods.

All socialising is deceptive to a greater or lesser extent – the internet just makes deception easier.

But George W. Bush and his administration devised those cuts and rammed them through Congress, and it's deceptive to suggest otherwise.

It is deceptive to think that they are fine just because one still sees them along the roadside.

However, the Antarctic winter is deceptive to those who don't know it, haven't experienced it and are left to fear it.

But it's deceptive to cite the I.M.F. as supporting that conclusion when, in fact, its report suggests something very different.