Sentence examples for necessary lies from inspiring English sources

Her book is chock-full of ingenious, baroque, necessary lies.

How can you expect someone who is indiscreet enough to get caught to run a superpower, with its necessary lies and secrets?

Critics of Mr Schneider, including this newspaper, portrayed him as giving in to this tension, and being willing to tell "necessary lies" when it suited his purposes.

They were left with a story; and they were telling it in a giddy new world in which the old rules — the necessary lies, the enforced shell of deference to Qaddafi's Mad Hatter philosophy — were suddenly gone.

Apart from this commentary on the vanities and stupidities of the writing life – the endless and necessary lies and evasions, the pointless prizes and awards, the horrors of the publishing world – there is a kind of novel within the novel, which tells the story of the young couple and their relationship with the sad and lonely teacher, Mr Landzaat.

In public, strike a balance between telling the truth and telling necessary lies.Science needs no defending from Mr Lomborg.

Maybe it was a necessary lie.

In this sense the company is built on a lie, but a necessary lie to preserve certain fictions that matter to Murdoch and his heirs.

5 In batches as necessary, lay the bread slices into the egg mixture and leave to soak for 2-3 minuturningrning once.

The play starts with Marc bluntly spitting out his views: it ends with Serge telling a necessary lie in order to preserve their relationship.

For my money, this is the best (and most necessary) lie on the list.