Sentence examples for whopping lie from inspiring English sources

Tim Kasser's book nails the whopping lie at the heart of our civilization: the belief that having more money and the things that money buys makes us happier.

'He could sense my decline, I think, and my lack of exuberance so he told me that I could get the part of Mama Morton without auditioning.' It was, as it turned out, a whopping lie.

"The United States is spreading a whopping lie that the D.P.R.K. violates the nuclear nonproliferation treaty and the D.P.R.K.-U.S. agreed framework," said an article in the Rodong Sinmun, carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency.

More and more escapees from North Korea are asserting that forced abortions and infanticide are the norm in North Korean prisons, charges the country's official Korean Central News Agency has denounced as "a whopping lie".

In a business where being able to tell a whopping lie is the coin of the realm, Buckpasser is the undisputed king of mendacity, and with good reason: his creators endowed him with two faces.

He is slowly losing his memory; he may soon be evicted from his vast rent-controlled New York City apartment; he is lured into another man's whopping lie, which leads, perhaps, just maybe, to new love; and that, essentially, describes the entire arc of the narrative.

We're talking about potentially whopping lies before Congress, before the world.

So she went into hyper mode, and her mild exaggerations became whopping lies.

Children, nonetheless, seem to thrive on stories, perhaps because they are not yet aware that they are reading whopping lies.

Into Alice's mirthless life comes a suitor named Ray Russo, whose versatile, whopping lies are among this book's main delights.

But when the world about them Filled with such whopping lies They could not fail to doubt them, They found, to their surprise, The tale of their Redresser, They viewed with different eyes.