Sentence examples for protective lies from inspiring English sources

At times during interviews, Mr. Ramsey said, "People start crying, because they remember things". Some had been told protective lies as children about why particular tourist routes were off limits to their families.

Whereas George and Martha are brutal and abandoned and, we are meant to see, truly in love, the young couple, an ambitious biology professor named Nick and his idiot wife, Honey, hold their marriage together with protective lies: Nick pretends to Honey that he loves her; Honey pretends to Nick that it is just bad luck that they have not yet had children.

Your own heart will tell you that no matter how protective lying may feel, it always poisons connection.

But none of them cut at my conscience quite so deeply as those first, innocuous, self-protective lies that, strictly speaking, weren't lies at all.

But he doesn't note that English and American courts were so concerned about the human instinct to tell self-protective lies that they avoided putting defendants in situations in which they might be tempted to commit perjury.

The collateral damage of the Libby leak investigation — including jail time for Judith Miller, then a reporter at The Times, who wanted to protect a source — arguably involved greater injustice than the self-protective lie for which Libby was prosecuted.

The finding that CPZ did not prevent LMP indicated that its protective effect lies downstream of that early step in Mtb cytotoxicity.

But Oculus's identity is rooted in Luckey's garage, where the protective goggles lay strewn with soldering irons, and hara-kiri head-mounted displays spilled their wire guts onto the workbench.

But underneath the debate between oilmen who want to tap into billions of barrels of oil and environmentalists protective of wildlife lies another question.

It's special to me, as it has a protective stone that lies over the exact place that my baby is growing.

Under a sign advising visitors to wear protective gear, charts lie helter-skelter on a metal table.