Sentence examples for deception for from inspiring English sources

(He reserves deception for his own use).

The use of deception for seed dispersal is less common.

Yet it was a deception, for the most part.

They remained masters of disinformation, the "planned, conscious deception for gain".

Maintaining a deception for so long distorts your sense of self.

Use the same energy behind that deception for the role, one that you can control.

The truth is that we each have a great capacity not only for deception but for self deception.

He developed the Guilty Knowledge Test, which tests not for deception but for reactions to tiny particulars of the crime.

She didn't want to see the pathos of bigness of character trapped in a web of self-deception, for which it took a pair of megawatt stars; the result is, in part, May's acerbic view of stardom in particular and life as a whole.

IN 2000 Yuri Levada, a sociologist, wrote about Russia's "wily man", who is neither fooled nor intimidated by the sprawling state, but instead "not only tolerates deception, but is willing to be deceived, and [even]…requires self-deception for the sake of his own self-preservation".

At the end, she concludes, "Formerly vigorous cultures typically fall prey to the arrogant self-deception for which the Greeks had a word, 'hubris".' In reaching her gloomy conclusions, Ms. Jacobs barely skims over such possibilities of calamity as terrorism, nuclear war and environmental degradation.