Sentence examples for exercise in deception from inspiring English sources

It is an exercise in deception.

In the Back Room, on the Lower East Side, the drinks are served in teacups, a pointless exercise in deception.

But as the pace quickens and the story continues to backtrack, solid evidence, established plot points and sturdily built characters all begin to come undone, until what started out as an interactive game becomes a truly unnerving exercise in deception.

My readers will recall that I labeled the Geithner stress test a fraudulent exercise in deception.

She said the young inmates don't look at the tricks as exercises in deception, but as skills to master.

I suspect that some pundits will shade their analysis to reflect the new balance of power — for example, by once again pretending that Representative Paul Ryan's budget proposals are good-faith attempts to put America's fiscal house in order, rather than exercises in deception and double-talk.

It may be legal to give $50,000 to a private consultant who massages your child's transcript and perfumes your child's essays, and illegal to pay someone for a patently fictive test score, but aren't both exercises in deception reserved for those who can afford them?

As James Cook and Michael Leja have demonstrated, these playful exercises in deception helped Americans confront the more serious financial and social frauds of the age.

Except the whole commercial program is an exercise in emotional deception.

Indeed, much of Warner's writing starts out as an exercise in self-deception.

Making the unbearable bearable is a real-life run at improvisational burlesque, and often a massive exercise in self-deception.