Sentence examples for instead of honest from inspiring English sources

On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people".

Instead of honest debate, we have seen scare tactics," Mr. Obama said.

Instead of honest debate and discussion, viewers saw two contenders sparring in an arena of vague proposals and lofty, indistinct promises.

"Instead of honest debate, we have seen scare tactics," he went on, accusing his critics of having "used this as an opportunity to score short-term political points, even if it robs the country of our opportunity to solve a long-term challenge.

Instead of honest debate, we have seen scare tactics.

In his health overhaul speech last Wednesday, President Obama accused his critics of spreading "misinformation" and "bogus claims," of "demagoguery and distortion," and of using "scare tactics" instead of honest debate.

Some of Chandler's attacks were more personal in nature; he charged that when Clements was governor, he spent $20,000 $$ in dollars) on a new rug for his office, and that Wetherby had used African mahogany to panel his office, instead of "good, honest Kentucky wood".

Has our prosperity been based on money printing, credit expansion and cost cutting, instead of honest-to-goodness investment in the real economy?

A string of skeptics exposed Hope's spirit photos as fakes instead of honest-to-God proof of the supernatural, and a 1922 feature in Scientific American mapped out the photo tricks and double exposures Hope and other spirit photographers used to make their images.

"I'll say the politically correct things, instead of the honest things".

Do some people actually prefer these long, drawn out methods of communicating disinterest instead of being honest?