Sentence examples similar to plainly a lie from inspiring English sources
There are a number of surrounding considerations that mitigate, but don't fully excuse, what we can now plainly call a "lie". One is that Obama had no direct decision-making authority on the issue — which is to say, lying about his stance on a mostly abstract policy issue is not the same as lying about whether he'd sign a health-care bill.
Anyone remotely familiar with the law understood immediately that this was a lie: The FISA statute plainly and very explicitly exempts such communications from the warrant requirement.
Others were plainly skeptical: "North Korea is lying, but it is a lie that signals they want a deal," tweeted Tyler Cowen, an economist at George Mason University.
A lie is a more malicious concealment, rarer than the garden-variety "misleading statement," but that's plainly what his lie about terrorism was: A conscious effort to mislead the public.
To equivocate is closer to prevaricate, dissimulate, which mean "to obscure so as to deceive," or more plainly, "to lie," and to dither, hesitate, falter is "to be irresolute in action, unsteady in belief".
In Act II, Wagner's sympathies plainly lie with Wotan, who becomes a mouthpiece for the composer when he says, "Age-old custom is all you can grasp: but my thoughts seek to encompass what's never yet come to pass".
Safety is plainly a priority.
Plainly, a great future beckoned.
But corruption is plainly a worry.
