Sentence examples similar to deceptive affirmation from inspiring English sources

While it's tempting to applaud the reception of Adele's figure, alongside that of Mad Men's Christina Hendricks hourglass shape, as a fashion icon, there is something deceptive underlying these affirmations.

Damon Galgut's new novel Arctic Summer (Atlantic) is also preoccupied by varieties of sadness – but is so crisply written, with a deceptive simplicity and directness, that it feels full of affirmations.

And deceptive.

We want affirmation.

A monograph is deceptive.

First comes perceptual affirmation.

Appearances here are deceptive.

"It's deceptive".

That may be deceptive.

But that is deceptive.

The stillness was deceptive.