Sentences with phrase «confession about lying»

Her confession about lying to the police to get her face on TV was my favorite.

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How can we speak truthfully about lying in a schizoid environment torn between deceitful hype and compulsive confession?

I used to think it was the old European women from three or four generations back that had religion and superst.ition fed to them in equal amounts — even some as recent as my mother's generation with the nuns» stories about lying before communion and having their tongue fall out of their mouths, or having the stone lions in front of the protestant church come to life and eat them or having the earth open up and swallow them because they didn't go to confession.

Should, for instance, a pastor keep confidential the confession of a colleague who says he lied about his credentials to secure a pastorate?

When a child lies about doing something, we often fixate on busting them, interrogating them, forcing a confession, and then exacting a promise from them to never, ever, ever do it again.