Sentence examples for deceiver from inspiring English sources

The confrontations between deceiver and deceived ranged from mystified to hostile, but mostly were undercut with a profound sadness.

Another strategy employed by intentionalists is the division of the self into psychological parts that play the role of the deceiver and deceived respectively.

The play was fast, funny, wordy, and physical, and it sent up deception for the two-way street that it was: an eyes-half-open transaction between the deceiver and the deceived.

It remains possible, though the facts in the case may in principle render it wildly improbable, that the testifier is either a deceiver or himself deceived; and so long as those possibilities exist, there will be logical space for other forms of evidence to bear on the conclusion.

This claim in turn is supported by his proof of the existence of God, together with the assertion that God, because he is not a deceiver, would not cause Descartes to be deceived in what he clearly and distinctly perceives.

Or maybe, as Machiavelli observed, we humans "are so simple, and so much creatures of circumstance, that the deceiver will always find someone ready to be deceived".

The self-deceiver need not even forget her original intention to deceive, so an unbeliever who sets out to get herself to believe in God (since she thinks such a belief is prudent, having read Pascal) might well remember such an intention at the end of the process and deem that by God's grace even this misguided path led her to the truth.

And yet it is difficult to see how the self-deceiver could fail to be aware of her intention to deceive.

The way the screenwriter John Gatins has set him up, as hero and anxious self-deceiver, makes it a gift to an actor.

"A Walk on the Water" is about George Riley, a congenital self-deceiver who declares roughly once a week that he is going to achieve independence by leaving home and making his fortune as an inventor.

But I was no child, no naïve self-deceiver intent on evading a predicament.