Sentence examples for was a mendacity from inspiring English sources

One of the most mendacious of Williams's characters -- and the playwright, who died gagging on the truth of a plastic bottle cap in 1983, was a mendacity expert -- this lyrical-with-heavy-ballast Blanche relies on lying as the most potent weapon she has to make people with whom she consorts submit to her whims even as she's in heavy denial about the dire straits into which she's descended.

"There is a mendacity about Washington – they want to take a show vote, but they don't actually want to follow through on what they say".

But the pretence that Soviet repression reached anything like the scale or depths of Nazi savagery – or that the postwar "enslavement" of eastern Europe can be equated with wartime Nazi genocide – is a mendacity that tips towards Holocaust denial.

Mr. Young was a man of very high principle, who despite all he had seen retained a capacity to be shocked by political mendacity.

("I did not realize 'mendacity' was a 50-cent word," Dr. Olson said. "That's what academic life has done to me").

But then the next week, on the way to Super Tuesday, will be a storm of mendacity covering ten states.

__Maggie the cat is alive!" "Mendacity is a system that we live in," Brick tells Big Daddy.

We've learned what the first British production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof looked like; how to translate the world of Tennessee Williams into a musical soundscape; how to (and not to) write a theatre review; what it's like to teach the play to school students – oh, and that "mendacity is a system that we live in.

We do not believe this is a question of corruption or mendacity," said Brown.

This is a grotesque display of political mendacity.

There is a "Machiavellianism just short of mendacity" visible in her demeanor.