Sentence examples for deception rather than from inspiring English sources

"It was more passing and deception rather than power.

Trick plays usually gain more yardage because of deception rather than design.

That is because it measures the brain's actual response to deception, rather than the physiological concomitants of that response.

Many critics are outraged by the self-serving statements of sellers, some of whom indubitably provide irrelevance and deception rather than information.

So hard, in fact, that when the truth was known the government's actions could only be interpreted as deception rather than delusion, and the incumbent Conservatives were defeated at the polls.

It's deception rather than honest persuasion".

Note that such insincerity might involve self-deception rather than deliberate lying.

It has also been argued that if dream-beliefs fall short of real beliefs, this makes the specter of dream deception more, rather than less, worrisome.

At the time this all felt like an unfamiliar situation - being openly deceived and rewarding the deceiver anyway, choosing to treat deception as entertainment, rather than feeling robbed, or seeking redress.

Mr. Lehrer began with a firm mea culpa, but then tended to describe his troubles as "errors" and "mistakes" rather than deception and lies, Jennifer Schuessler writes on ArtsBeat.

The changing attitudes have fed a consensus that Sinn Fein's failure to get the I.R.A. to disarm was a miscalculation rather than deception.