Sentence examples for convenient lies from inspiring English sources

In 2003 and 2004, when I was first dating online, couples came up with convenient lies to avoid admitting how they met.

Every day we tell convenient lies to spare people's feelings or to avoid damaging confrontations: even Baddiel admits that he concealed evidence of his mother's affair from his father and, in a post-show Q&A, said he was not going to let his own children attend this event.

Bind me in bonds I can not break; remove all sinister allurings from me; eternally this day deface in me the detested and distorted images of all the convenient lies and duty-subterfuges of the diving and ducking moralities of this earth.

Convenient lies from the IMF gave their risk committees air cover.

These were all convenient lies from the men of those times to gain power.

Since then, scientists have dedicated a lot of time to studying human psychology and the way in which people accept convenient lies.

This inconvenient truth has been twisted into a convenient lie by reform opponents to confuse the public.

"You can't pay for it, then when it's convenient lay it off on the airlines".

The Germans also concluded that Mr. Duisenberg's avowedly voluntary retirement was a convenient lie to skirt the legal issues.

Rags to riches celebrity stories dominate popular imagery, but the "it could be you" social lottery fantasy is mostly a convenient lie to keep everyone in their place.

Asked if this could have been a "well-orchestrated and convenient lie" so the bombing team could avoid punishment, he agreed that it could have been.