Sentence examples for plainly lie from inspiring English sources

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".

Even if one takes more flattering "underlying" measures, more work plainly lies ahead: pre-interest and pretax profits margins were only 3.8%.

Although responsibility for the accident plainly lies with BP, a slick of recrimination now laps around the White House too.Because it is the waters, shores and livelihoods of Louisiana that have once again suffered most, Americans have from the start made inevitable comparisons between Barack Obama's handling of the Deepwater Horizon spill and George Bush's handling of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

For example, a very respectable legal opinion, albeit not binding, was provided by a High Court Judge (and former Governor General of Australia), Sir William Patrick Dean, who stated that circumcision, " for perceived hygienic – or even religious – reasons" " plainly lies within the authority of parents of an incapable child to authorize surgery on the basis of medical advice" [ 17].

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".

Plainly, the risks lie on the downside, as rising unemployment leads to a new round of spending weakness and corporate defaults create new problems in the credit markets.Worse, the recovery, when it comes, will be feeble, as the overindebted rebuild their balance-sheets and export-dependent countries reorient their economies towards domestic spending.

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.

Moreover, and here the fault lies plainly with the cable industry, the cable providers are much more focused on telephony and television than broadband, which they see as not being as profitable.

In terms of the long-awaited link-up between Walcott and Sánchez there was a hint of what might lie in store, although there is plainly work to do in terms of developing an understanding.

Ekman, incidentally, professes to be "a terrible liar", and observes that although some people are plainly more accomplished liars than others, he cannot teach anyone how to lie.

Yet, equally plainly, her main interest lay in the old world of great powers and realpolitik.