Sentence examples for lying to itself from inspiring English sources

Was the Administration lying to itself?

Austria, of course, the country that produced both Mozart and Hitler, has made a career of lying to itself.

In the eyes of critics, Google is lying to itself about the desires of Chinese Internet users and collaborating with the Communist Party merely to secure a profitable market.

But the mind watching the elephant is making absurd calculations, lying to itself, trying to reason, and then abandoning its own capacity to reason (or obeying the illogic of the world it lives in, the logic of the Englishman needing to look tough at all costs before his "subjects").

The U.S. is lying to itself.

I concluded that right wing folks like being lied to, but the left prefers lying to itself.

The left has an impressive ability to lie to itself.

Like the late IF Stone, one of Washington's greatest muckrakers, Marx understood that a serious ruling class will not lie to itself in its own statistics.

The creepy King Crimson voice sample lies to itself and us — "no one man should have all that power" is exactly what West does not believe — and the drums are as hard and unforgiving as anything released in 2010.

Pinter's work was, instead, an exploration of the nightmare landscape of the mind — the mind that lies to itself about what is real and tries to reshape the world around it.

For believing that it is Providence's chosen instrument makes the country overestimate its power; it encourages it to lie to itself about its mistakes; and it makes it harder to live with the painful truth that history does not always -- or even very often -- obey the magnificent but dangerous illusions of American will.