Sentence examples for deceive as much from inspiring English sources

Although we know that spirit photography was very often staged, and Zola's proposition doesn't account for trickery, these pictures may not have been intended to deceive as much as to entertain, to instill wonder.

The characters lie, steal and exploit, deceiving themselves as much as their sad clients.

Playing a man who deceives himself as much as others, his mild fluster turns to explosive indignation as he realises he is the ultimate outsider in this interlinked quartet.

However much sub-prime mortgage brokers had deceived the people they sold bad products to in the years leading up to the crash, they'd deceived themselves just as much.

Loan officers, law partners and computer programmers may well flatter, scheme and deceive at the workplace as much as any member of Congress, but they aren't on C-Span, and their day-to-day obstacles and temptations are more obscure.

In 2000, she said that "the Koran teaches Muslims that it is acceptable for them to lie and deceive, cheat and swindle, as much as they like".

Her motive isn't so much to deceive as it is to give a platform for us to laugh at ourselves and get outside boring rationality.

But its size is deceiving, since it can hold as much as a whopping 32 GB.

We trick one another as much as we deceive ourselves.

MBIA claims that Countrywide Financial, which Bank of America acquired in what may be the worst merger ever, owes it as much as $5 billion for deceiving it about structured finance products it was insuring.

Careful preparation is a necessity, as much in science as in the delicate art of deceiving others.