Sentence examples for in the mendacity from inspiring English sources

"I believe in the mendacity of Hope," she said.

… Your belief in the mendacity of the state … begins only with a jackboot at the door.

The famously unfettered Conservative minister Alan Clark refashioned that formula later, putting it up a notch or two in the mendacity league by telling the Matrix Churchill hearing on arms sales to Iraq that in answering parliamentary questions he'd been "economical with the actualité" – an answer honest enough to cause the trial to collapse.

He took a philosophical interest in the mendacities and profundities of political rhetoric, and he took a historical interest in the American past, and it is easy to imagine that if he had allowed those interests to fertilize each other, his own 1940s inspiration might have blossomed eventually into something sturdier and more ambitious than a scattered set of slender magazine commentaries.

Regarding "Greece's rotten oligarchy" (Views, Jan . 7: In citing the mendacity, corruption and avarice overrunning Athens, Kostas Vaxevanis describes a country whose political establishment has betrayed its citizenry.

The common thread in these stories is the mendacity and all-around no-goodness of men, whom the program refers to, generically, as lying, cheating dirtbags.

Saint-Céré is far from Wasilla, Alaska; questioning Mendès-France's origins is not quite the same as demanding President Obama's birth certificate; the mendacity in the claim of France's imminent coca-colonization is of a different order from that concerning the misinformation about death panels in the United States.

As Rober D. Hodge writes in his excellent new book 'The Mendacity of Hope', "Obama is judged not as a man but as a fable, a tale of moral uplift that redeems the sins of America's shameful past".

Many feminists still feel compelled to expose the "beauty myth" – UK Feminista's letter in this paper last week about the mendacity of cosmetic surgery advertising shows it's a hard habit to break.

He captures in the Southern twang both the music and the mendacity of personality.

That would leave Americans wondering what our actual rights might be, burdened by a final, pervasive problem: the mendacity of the executive branch in defending these programs.