Sentences with phrase «convenient lie»

- Harper's Bazaar «Jääskeläinen has created a puzzle box of a book that touches on the seeds of creativity, the corrosive qualities of convenient lies, and the fictions that our own memories construct and present as fact.

You're trying to get to the heart of the matter, rather than the convenient lies people will sometimes tell themselves.

Odds are, there has been more than one atheist in a foxhole, and you are simply telling a convenient lie.

You can not have your own version of Catholicism and call yourself a devout catholic; that is a convenient lie.

The words of Jesus reach into our deep places to expose the convenient lies we tell ourselves to get off the hook.

something of which Kristol knows not... false pretext for war... callous disregard for war victims... convenient lies to prove any political point... perhaps only Bernie Madoff has led a more delusional existence...

The reason that «denying global warming is associated with a Conservative cause» is because it's a convenient lie used as a political attack ad on conservatives, strongly propagated by liberals and their allies in US mass media.

This is a convenient lie.

It is just a convenient lie to say phytic acid binds important minerals and not explain the rest of the story.

by the Union of Concerned Scientist brings such discipline and rigor to this argument that its conclusions are undeniable: Exxon is spending a fortune to prop up a convenient lie; and it's using the same tactics and many of the same people that the tobacco industry used.