Sentence examples for hoodwink us from inspiring English sources

With household finances squeezed more than ever, there's a whole new raft of illusions being used to hoodwink us out of our money.

Machines are either out to eliminate us (Skynet from Terminator 2, Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey), or to hoodwink us into a state of surrender (the simulated world of The Matrix, the pampered couch potatoes of WALL-E).

Both teams are endearing, partly because their captains smile a lot, though that should not hoodwink us into thinking they are anything other than ruthlessly clinical in the way they go about their business.

This could be seen as a paraphrasable belief along these lines: Montaigne believed that human reason was inadequate to comprehend certain truths about God and the world; hence he adopts an attitude to authority which is bifold - authorities may tell us truths which we cannot ourselves apprehend, or they may hoodwink us with nonsense.

We know we're completely overmatched by these manipulators' ability to hoodwink us, and we do need a skilled bodyguard to protect us when they try.

Matt Greaves Tony, I'll give you another chance, but your so-called Freedom of Information Act and misguided use of the Official Secrets Act were shameful examples of backtracking and hoodwinking us into believing we were entering a more liberal and radical political era.

It seems they hoodwinked us.

"They argue that we love our pets because they have hoodwinked us into it," Wynne said.

This led to a lot of mystery and speculation until it was revealed that Jackson had hoodwinked us all and it was part of a viral advertising campaign.

The popular culture paedophile buffoons I'm talking about, who hoodwinked us, in the course of their predations – indeed, as a necessary preliminary to their predations – into finding them diverting.

Our collective folk memory of childhood summers unhelpfully filters out the crushing boredom of six weeks off school and hoodwinks us into thinking that summer is a time of halcyon days, endless blue skies and carefree living.