Sentence examples for inability to lie from inspiring English sources

The inability to lie is not a virtue, it's a social handicap.

Her portrayal of Karen is alluringly perceptive on many aspects of the autistic condition – echolalia, the quest for sensory arousal, an inability to lie or to understand metaphors.

He knows all the countries of the world and their capital cities and every prime number up to 7,057 but has a problem relating to other people, and his inability to lie leads him into a series of quandaries.

Jesse's inability to lie about the nutritional value of the "stupidly unhealthy" kebabs he serves from a van while trying to lead a conventional life is a particular comic gem.

It's not just that one is automatically on the side of the socially challenged Christopher, whose character traits include an inability to lie — an aspect of personality that, we quickly discover, may not be a good thing.

Christopher's inability to lie about the events he is recounting and his inability to sentimentalize his actions or the actions of others lend the story a visceral, stripped-down power, an understated precision that enables the author to talk about the big issues of love and mortality and loss without sounding maudlin or trite.

In fact, amnesia caused by illness or brain damage typically manifests as an inability to lay down new memories.

More than a distraction, Wallace was an albatross, with his well-documented inability to lay off the refs and stay in the game.

There's significant (though far from conclusive) economic and anecdotal evidence that hiring is inhibited by a fear of the inability to lay off permanent employees in cases of difficulty.

At my first post-partum check up two weeks later, I explained my concerns of my developing cough, lack of energy and inability to lay flat.

Because of an inability of patients to lie in the scanner or technical issues, data are reported for 26 of the 29 subjects.