Sentence examples for lying seemed from inspiring English sources

Because we had received so little money in the settlement, which meant that Birju was an ordinary boy, lying seemed the only way to explain that what had happened to him was awful, was the worst thing in the world.

In fact, he's a habitual liar -- so relaxed and so appealing a liar," as Boyd puts it, "that his lying seemed less like deception than a kind of good cheer, a revisionist's optimism: life should be the way I'm telling you it is".

Just when the post-election theme of lying seemed to be receding into the background, the revelations about General Petraeus' affair became our national obsession.

Because we had received so little money in the settlement, which meant that Birju was an ordinary boy, lying seemed the only way to explain that what had happened to him was extraordinary.

Guede's possible motive for lying seems astonishingly clear.

It was equally forbidden to make laziness or lying seem attractive.

Far from reflecting laziness, prosocial lying seems to entail a great deal more cognitive and emotional effort than truth-telling.

They are rather the products of everything from joshing to outright lying when lying seems the only logical way to advance a legitimate idea.

Jibes at Bush - 'How quaint does impeaching a President for lying seem now?' - stood comfortably alongside more confessional jokes about fame, family and therapy.

The example of not lying seems ill-chosen, because Kant's own theory does not treat it as a fundamental moral requirement, but rather as a duty derived from a fundamental requirement (MM 6 429 31).

Nowadays, the cost of being caught lying seems less obvious.