Then he piled rocks on you until you confessed the truth or got crushed.
This latest twist to the Landis case follows the same template set by Voet and the other pentiti: deny until you are desperate, then confess.
The United Nations study, which took a year to complete, describes a country in conflict where a prime goal of the security officials is to remove potentially dangerous individuals by detaining them and torturing them until they confess.
Keep away until they confess and say sorry.
But he's waited until now to confess that there was no point.
Embarrassed by what I'd done, I raked the sand with my toes until forced to confess my blunder.
Until this week I confess I'd seen only snippets from Griffith's film (the same film, remember, that is reputed to be the forefather of every other film).
But frankly, until now, I confess that I've never really worried about a volcano so profoundly screwing up the world's travel plans.
"I had all these typical urban hipster preconceived notions about bullfighting," she confessed, "but until you put yourself in the arena, it's so easy to misunderstand.
