Sentence examples similar to direct lay from inspiring English sources
At the risk of dealing in huge stereotypes, it's a commonplace of social anthropology that there are some cultures and sub-cultures that attach high importance to truth-telling and regard telling direct lies as shameful; and others which foster a keen sense of the importance of "saving face" (one's own, or the family's, or the organisation's) and feel it's okay to tell fibs to keep up appearances.
Also remember that direct lying creates a reputation.
This was performed using simple directed lying tasks.
Thirdly, the task paradigm of directed lying does not investigate the other cognitive/affective processes that occur during deception in reality, such as decision-making (to deceive or to be honest) before action and feedback evaluation after outcome onset (being detected or not).
"Japanese bureaucrats won't tell a direct lie," he added.
I will never put down a direct lie, but it's possible to word something to present it in the best possible light.
"It is absolutely contrary to the increased openness that doctors are supposed to have: it involves a direct lie to the patient.
"When Paxman gets hold of a politician, he will attack and go for the weak spots with the more or less explicit aim of getting a breakdown of some kind, an admission of failure, a direct lie or an obvious evasion," Mr. Lloyd said.
For instance, Fassler and colleagues (2011) found that patients believe that prescribing a pure placebo on the basis of a direct lie is worse than prescribing one on the basis of indirect information (50% objected to the former, while only 29% objected to the latter).
Direct hand lay up method gives better strengthening characteristic in term of the ultimate flexural load compared with pre-cured plate bonding technique.
