Sentence examples for idea of lay from inspiring English sources

But because gymnastics only gets mainstream attention in Olympic years, open-ended system skeptics "really get nervous with this idea of lay viewers or newcomers being confused, and attribute any loss of audience to the lack of comprehensibility in the sport," Meyers said.

In recent years, the idea of lay expertise has been given some prominence, whereby people with diabetes gradually come to accept their diagnosis, and, gain mastery in coping with it [ 7, 18, 24- 26].

"I'm not one for taking holidays, the idea of lying on the beach is anathema," he says.

"I use the idea of lying — or 'storying' — to trace both a hidden tradition and a tradition of hiding," Young wrote in an e-mail.

"Nick is fascinated within that play about the idea of lying," she said.

Instead, we use phrases like "hustling" and "fake it until you make it" to make the idea of lying more palatable.

We assume that the agents have intrinsic preferences for honesty in the sense that they dislike the idea of lying when it does not influence their welfare but instead goes against the intention of the central planner.

Though none of my sources liked the idea of lying to an employer, they all agreed that some of his advice had merit, like demonstrating to an employer that you are valued by other employers and using severance pay as a bargaining chip.

He doesn't like the idea of lying in a lounge chair for the interview I set up. "It would make me feel like I was in therapy".

And then I asked, "And you have no reservations about the idea of lying to millions and millions of Americans and the morality of deception?" And at that moment I have to be honest with you, the doctor upon hearing my statement began to laugh so hard he doubled up in his chair.

Yet the idea of lie detection nonetheless retains the high gloss of social credibility.