Sentence examples for prone to lay from inspiring English sources

We are a sentimental, soft-hearted nation, prone to lay violent hands upon death in art by calling in play doctors and heroine specialists of the kind that "saved" the doomed Lena, of Joseph Conrad's "Victory," forty years ago, when it was made into a silent movie that was a combination of Pollyanna and Jack Holt.

Despite his past glories as one of the leading exponents of French Touch, de Crécy isn't one to live in the past don't come to his DJ gigs expecting a "greatest hits" set, as some of his fellow vets are prone to lay down.

Both sides are prone to lie.

It turns out that some highly successful people, especially celebrities, may be more prone to lie than others.

They praised the priest and described Mr. Andreas as troubled, like the other boys, and thus prone to lie.

As Tolstoy's fiction suggested (though he was prone to lie quite a bit himself), the lie can also eclipse the very nature of life itself.

"You'll know that it's axiomatic that Arabs are unreliable and prone to lie (if not to lie prone), so, if you buy that whole reasoning and why not?

None of my dates seemed particularly prone to lying; no hastily cropped profile pictures with half a girlfriend's arm still in view, no wild claims about jobs or experiences.

His former ghostwriter, Tony Schwartz, has pointed out how Trump's attacks on others aren't random, but constitute a precise inventory of his own faults: "unstable", "reckless", "bigoted", "trigger-happy", exhausted and prone to lying.

This edge-on orientation is insensitive to the surface properties of the substrates changed from hydrophilic to hydrophobic, suggesting that the low energy hydrogen bonded sheets of PA6 are prone to lying down in the film.

Conducted as a field experiment with a heterogenous group of participants during a University "Open House Day", our "gumball-machine-experiment" provides field evidence on how preferences for lying are shaped in situations typically found in professional contexts which we consider to be particularly prone to lying behavior compared to other contexts.