Sentence examples for lay not from inspiring English sources

Below their siren surfaces lay not mud, but tar.

(The fault lay not in ourselves, but in our cars).

Their real work lay not in manufacturing but in marketing.

History proved Mercier right: the future lay not in expanding information, but in compacting it.

The genius lay not in the basic vocal instrument but in the way he used it.

His real interests lay not in France but in the development of his own territories.

Its fault lay not in insufficient subdivision but in lack of damage stability.

Madoff's seductive appeal lay not so much in his purported profits as in his consistency.

Wilde's courage lay not in his "alternative sexuality" but in the freedom of his mind.

But the heroism lay not in the size so much as in the daring spatial invention.

But coaches, being coaches, manage to lay not-so-subtle threats and guilt trips on their players.