Sentence examples for little deception from inspiring English sources

The little deception puts us on notice — rugs will be yanked.

On the winning score, it was Alabama's turn for a little deception.

The little deception puts us on notice rugs will be yanked.

But, as with any parent-child relationship, all loving intentions can be tempered by issues of control, role-reversal, guilt and a little deception — enough loaded stuff to fill a psychology syllabus.

It was his belief that even world-class performers, who thought they were regulating their energy output to their absolute maximum, possessed a "reserve" of around 2% that could be tapped into, given the right motivation (or a little deception).

As Japan and China continue to exchange angry words over their competing claims to an uninhabited group of islands in the East China Sea, it's not that easy to get a close look - and sometimes a little deception is required.

First, we are flattered by the intimacy of the characters' confessions; then we become fascinated by the little deceptions that they practice on themselves and one another.

This arrangement afforded him the pleasure of a silent, paternal chuckle, while keeping things honest between them — with Arden weaving her tales and knowing, as she did so, that he understood them to be concoctions and would forgive her little deceptions in light of her willingness to offer him alibis.

There is something to be said, surely, for a little benign deception.

Reading a savvy verse veteran is like watching Sandy Koufax paint a 1-0 shutout in his prime — some pure high heat here, a paralyzing curve there, then a little deliberate deception way down in the dirt.

However, if she believes it is a lion and proceeds more cautiously when in fact it is only the wind, the only cost to her well-being is, perhaps, a little self-deception -- cautious self-deception that, when practiced, may actually save her life under similar circumstances in the future.