These people are lying, promising everything and doing nothing.
In the meantime such voters will be susceptible to politicians who lie, promising a return to the good old days.
"Her counsel touched many and her humor in hard times and good, always found its way into a conversation". Pierson related the story of a friend who sat by Malloy as she lay dying, promising they would see each other again in another life or in another time.
Given that his own authoritative father had once been painfully shy, Gilbert wondered what it would be like to meet one's father in the midst of his awkward adolescence, and therein lay a promising if problematic premise for a novel.
By saying that Congress was "the only thing standing between the American people and these vast oil resources," Bush was peddling a lie by promising instant relief at the pump.
In effect, your brain is routinely lying to you, promising more pleasure and more pain than you will actually experience.
"TREACHERY, dissembling, promising, lying, falsehood, etc," Henry Fielding wrote in 1745, are "summed up in the collective name of policy, of politics, or rather pollitricks".
The director, Guillaume Nicloux, who has previously cast Houellebecq in a cameo role in another film, vowed to "retrace the week he disappeared" – describing it as "truth, lies, suppositions" and promising that the "truth goes well beyond fiction".
Herein lies a promising opportunity.
Mr. Bush and the Democrats are promising to lay aside their partisan squabbling.
