Sentence examples for wilful deception from inspiring English sources
Yet those responsible for the NHS still refuse to act, blinded by their own delusional optimism, or perhaps wilful deception.
Jack Straw, the former justice secretary, asks May whether she is accusing G4S of being guilty of "wilful deception".
The wilful deception of the public for political end, especially under the disguise of national security, and what an awful price we pay for such lies under any name: misinformation, disinformation, deceit, deception, or just plain dishonesty.
Senior Labour figures, including the former cabinet ministers Jack Straw and Bob Ainsworth, said the scale of the failure in G4S provision must have been obvious to any inquiring minister or police watchdog: "Are you saying G4S are guilty of wilful deception … or was there some failure in the monitoring of what G4S was doing?" said Straw.
"To pretend they do is a wilful deceit," he said.
But whereas Gatsby's wilful self-deception indirectly cost him his life (his body found floating in his pool, no less), the character and fate of Ned Merrill seems closer to that of another tragic Fitzgerald hero: Tender is the Night's Dick Diver.
If the criminal investigation of BP and those who signed off on the drill-site inspection sheets and safety assurances shows wilful fraud and deception, dereliction of duty, bribes or who knows what else, there is one additional set of criminal charges that should be added to the list: cruelty to animals.
It made sense to explore the realities behind wilful acts of mutual deception – though, this time, in transactions of sexual fantasy.
When the photographer and film-maker Paul Joyce approached me with the idea of our making a book together on the subject of a "lost" Dublin, I forgot – yes, I forgot – all that I should have remembered about the blithely treacherous nature of memory, about its playful deceptions, its wilful insistences, its blind spots and black holes.
'Psychosomatic illness', in popular usage, tends to connote deception, if not of others then at least of oneself, raising sensitive questions about wilful motivation and individual culpability (Lawrie, 2000; Stone et al., 2004).
