Sentence examples for small deceptions from inspiring English sources

But it is a risky approach, he added: Even small deceptions can erode the trust between athlete and coach.

One lesson, Dr. Thompson said, is that coaches can eke better performances out of athletes by means of small deceptions.

The girls have a friendship built on small deceptions, a dynamic that repeats itself with their dates.

This book is built on a many small deceptions, all of them subtly knowing about the rivalries among teenage girls and their adult counterparts.

What was more upsetting were the ease with which small deceptions fed the larger tragedies.

He focuses maniacally on success, but the brilliance of Bar Rescue is how beautifully – and truthfully, despite its small deceptions – it depicts failure and the joy and pain and pathos of a life lived sloppily.

East returned the spade deuce, a small deception aimed at making the declarer believe that this suit would divide four-three.

Obviously, the idea had occurred to the White House before the congressional leadership suggested it, but the small deception was O.K. Washington is very deeply an organization city, and it needs these rituals; a wartime address to a joint session of Congress is the ultimate unscheduled ceremony, and you could feel the comforting effect of the expectation of it.

She is a born satirist, a gifted and wry observer of the absurdities and feints of social life (three old friends feud over an all-white painting in her hit play "Art") and of the small self-deceptions that help us all survive.

Operation Copperhead was a small military deception operation run by the British during the Second World War.

Super Bowl-losing Brady is more poised in the pocket, having utterly mastered the often overlooked skill of subtle body deception (small pump fakes, looking off defenders, hints of shoulder twists – anything to make a defender guess wrong).