Sentence examples for straightforward lie from inspiring English sources

A truly straightforward lie would have stopped at "No, sir".

Of course we often tell a straightforward lie, and for morally blameworthy reasons.

A number of respected commentators saw this as a straightforward lie, to the point of being a firing offense.

The party said any suggestion of tax avoidance by Mr Miliband was a "straightforward lie", and demanded an apology over the report in the Daily Mail.

Whether the rumours are true, I can't say, but what's certain is that the truth of Nash's experience, the way in which he struggled and ultimately succeeded in using the power of his rational mind to overcome his delusional thinking, was replaced with a straightforward lie.

A Labour spokesman said the claims were a "straightforward lie" and that "no tax was avoided".

We're almost sure to see a number of outright, straightforward lies, as Trump has already denied he ever even spoke to Bondi.

If you've got the cash, the tangible stuff is relatively straightforward; lay down key infrastructure like power plants, water supply, gas, highways, seaports, airports, police, fire, hospitals, etc.

"Demons Don't Get Me Down" skewed a tad melodramatic, though, and the piercing but straightforward "Little Lie," on which Ms. Ortega howled mightily, highlighted the implied tension between her outsize personality, which is telegraphed in her rangy voice and her outfit, and her commitment to delivering something tuneful and direct.

Similarly, interpretation of GWAS hits is not straightforward as they oftentimes lie outside of coding regions of the genome (Schaub et al., 2012).

Singly rooted, acyclic trees are the most straightforward structures to lay out and display, but this method can be applied to multiply rooted directed graphs with cycles (such as biochemical pathways).