They might be hieroglyphs, frenzied maenads or black serpents with men's heads and menacing tongues – for stinging, perhaps, for uttering untruths, for screaming fury.
There is a certain amount of blagging – not uttering untruths, but you are employed by your authors to talk up their work, so you have to have relentlessly positive line on things".
So how did the Eighth Circuit's Republican-appointed majority (yes, all seven) reconcile the scientific evidence and the agenda-driven statute that compels doctors to utter an untruth?
The spot's payoff is the mocking clip in which Mr. Gore asserts that "there has never been a time" when he uttered an untruth, and the announcer's cynical comeback.
To a certain extent, members of the public will find the misrememberings, omissions and inventions of the candidates they are inclined to support more believable than those they oppose, though it is rare to see a candidate for high office knocked out of a race simply for uttering an untruth or two.
Its performance is said sometimes to ensure a good harvest, other times to purify the participants; a man who is accused of a crime or of uttering an untruth may be asked to undergo the ordeal of fire to prove his innocence, and if he emerges unscathed his innocence is proved.
They looked me straight in the eye as they uttered their untruths.
Just when I think I've said enough about Social Security for a while, a politician or a court mouthpiece of the Washington Establishment pulls me back into the fray by uttering blatant untruths about it.
"And President Clinton has not uttered a single untruth in the last two years?" she continued.
Among the many untruths uttered by predatory for-profit colleges, two stand out for me.
Even though they long ago left Mr. Obama's payroll, former advisors such as David Cutler, Zeke Emanuel, and David Axelrod despite all being in academia (where pursuit of truth purportedly is the mission)—continue to flak for the president rather than call him to account for the pyramid of untruths he has uttered about this terribly misguided law.
