Sentence examples for elaborate deception from inspiring English sources

Why the elaborate deception?

Alas, this elaborate deception came to grief.

So I felt betrayed and foolish when he admitted he had perpetrated an elaborate deception.

Lawrence's mother, Sarah, a dominating character, was complicit in maintaining the elaborate deception.

An elaborate deception plan was carried out to conceal the moves and to persuade the enemy command that the next attack would come in the south.

Just as much as, say, Great Expectations or The Good Soldier, Sweet Tooth grips the reader with the conviction that the narrator is the victim of elaborate deception.

Only by means of all their elaborate deceptions do these characters figure out who they really are.

Madame Ackermann grows suspicious of these increasingly elaborate deceptions but soon discovers discrepancies in one of Julia's tall tales that reveal her student's emerging psychic talents.

Instead, Capitol Hill is abuzz with the politically safer possibilities of the Enron investigation, with its tales of document-shredding and elaborate deceptions of shareholders and employees.

In February of 1943, a cast of colorful oddballs developed and carried out one of the most elaborate deceptions of World War II, a plan to disguise the impending Allied invasion of Sicily, framed around the body of a dead man.

Though the real-life story that inspired this show (and the 2002 movie of the same title) is full of elaborate deceptions and corkscrew twists, you will never at any point be confused by its theatrical incarnation.