Sentence examples for being lay from inspiring English sources

"What he saw," explains Knowlson, "was that, like Joyce, he had been striving for literary power, for control over the material, when in fact his whole zone of being lay in that area of impotence, of ignorance, of stupidity This was something which he was then able to channel in an exploration of what he saw as the essentials of being".

These were, after all, poor countries that learned one simple lesson fast: their strength and well being lay in solidarity.

Technically, I was lying.

FRANCES: I was lying.

They were lying.

The media is lying.

His family was lying.

Somebody was lying.

"I would be lying".

Most are lying.

I'd be lying.