Sentences with phrase «own mendacity»

The secular world, lacking any vocabulary of mercy, is forced into mendacity.

Laqueur is right, I think, about the mendacity stains on the antismoking crusade, and about the link with the denial of death.

With each passing month, new and troubling questions are raised about the mendacity of the FBI and the incompetence of Attorney General Reno in responding to the Waco crisis.

Contemporary conservatives and liberals alike are not just mistaken in their understanding of politics; they are for the most part venal sellouts for whom hypocrisy and mendacity are second nature.

Managed mendacity can be found in virtually every industry and every business, Elliott and Schroth contend.

They believe that, as a result of the booming economy, a new management science not taught at business schools has arisen over the past decade: «managed mendacity.»

Hubris, mendacity and social hypocrisy in the service of irresponsible institutional power are the character of its contents by which this is accomplished.

Jean - Claude Pressac, a French pharmacist and would - be denier who was for a time involved with Faurisson and Leuchter, repudiated the whole project when he saw its blatant mendacity.

They see that some of us are so self - interested, and so self - protective, that we will ally ourselves with someone who violates all that is sacred to us — in hope, almost certainly a vain hope given his mendacity and record of betrayal, that his rule will save us.

Then we have the Christians, the most guilty in manipulation, mendacity, perversion and a host of other atrocities.

Some proponents of Trump have taken this line, supposing that his personal repulsiveness, crazed inconsistencies, and mercenary mendacity are just the disrupting tonic needed for a morally self - deluding era.

The definitional slicing and dicing, the claim that the instruction means by «maturity» that one is happy being gay, rather than that, as it explicitly says, deep - seated same - sex desire is evidence of an «unfinished adolescence» — it is all evasion and mendacity.

Mr. Goodman's «public tranquility» is the stillness of cynical mendacity.

There is a smell of mendacity surrounding much of the response to the instruction.

Obama has become one of our very worst presidents, particularly in his unprecedented degree of mendacity - employment and his sickening shamelessness about it, a disgrace related to his exacerbating his party's habit of reality - denial about fiscal, labor, and other economy - shaping policies.

Is the assertion that I - just - wanted - to - push - a-good-policy naiveté or mendacity?

(This is much different that the violent revolution that only seeks to alter the exalted political structure, as politics is, and can only be, the profession of mendacity in opposition to Truth).

Except that the Hellfire doctrine is a perverse mendacity that defames God.

All of which is deeply moving, even as it throws into sharp relief the fecklessness of Washington, Brussels, London, Paris, and Berlin in addressing Vladimir Putin's mendacity, aggression, and brutality.

I'm hurting over Christians who don't care or refuse to see how Trump's mendacity divided our nation.

«He's been telling you lies, then,» said Si √ ¥ n, and wandered off into a short biography of his cousin that featured the latter's meanness and mendacity.

I live in a country where Donald Trump is president, so I really shouldn't be surprised by blatant mendacity and rank bullshit anymore.

I can't decide whether Jenkin's inane boast is the result of ignorance or mendacity.

The latest mendacity from MANA is this piece of junk, Understanding Outliers In Home Birth Research.

To tell the truth, any such information originated from Indian side is mendacity.

The cause is a mixture of frustration, delusion, mendacity, and bloody - mindedness.

Since 1997, New Labour have taken the art of spin and refined it to a new degree of mendacity.

The level of mendacity and prevarication alone in the run - up to the 2016 elections are simply outrageous and mind - boggling.

Accustomed as I am to the mendacities of politicians, even I am now faintly staggered that at the very same time as Baron Mandelson was trying to dismiss my book as fiction, he was furtively rushing together his own «memoir» which confirms by repetition several of the episodes first revealed in The End of the Party.

Simply put they are filled with deceit, deception, mendacity and hate.

The grim thing about these articles is their deliberate mendacity.

If he is not lecturing, talking down to or insulting the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and Christian leaders or trying to convince the world that there is no islamisation agenda in Nigeria he is resorting to the most disgusting and shameful mendacities.

Sooner or later, this mendacity will end.

Today was not «a good day for the left»; it was a victory for tribalism and mendacity.

His single tenure was covered in a mountain of mendacity by the manipulators of sectional press and political blackmail.

How else can one explain the heartless mendacity of the House's Trumpcare bill, the American Healthcare Act, which strips away health security for millions of people in exchange for billions of dollars in tax cuts for the wealthiest few?

What you will not find in her report is a weighing of the governor's mendacity in the context of other whoppers by contemporary public servants.

Even so, who could have imagined, when the appalling era of mendacity that marked Campbell's tenure in Downing Street finally ended, that a new one would start a few years later?

But recent studies on primates and preschool children suggest that the development of mendacity is more subtle than this and may have its roots deep in our evolutionary past.

What bothers Matloff is not immigration or national origin, but waste, unfairness, and mendacity — all major elements, he believes, of today's technical and scientific labor markets.

Steve: I mean, even if you cut these guys all the slack in the world, and say that they were sincere in their efforts and there was no mendacity involved, then the movie is just sort of incompetent in its presentation of the issue and of whatever science it tries to get into which is, you know, very little, but that's it.

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I am somewhat hesitant to attempt to describe this... peculiar concoction for fear of being accused of base mendacity.

Beau Travail transliterates Herman Melville's low - key homoerotic sailor tale Billy Budd, in which Melville wrestles, for the final time, with the magnanimity of God and the mendacity of man, as a vituperative study of imperialism and militarism as wanton outlets for flimsy masculinity.

For others that agree that a great artist lost his way due to hubris and mendacity, there may be space for them with this work.

The third character — The Post itself — reaches its moment of destiny when it is gallingly beaten to a great story as the New York Times announces it has documentary proof of government mendacity on Vietnam.

by Walter Chaw Philip Seymour Hoffman is Dante and the slings and arrows of mendacity are his Virgil, chasing him through the inferno of his day to day.

It's a smart dissection of the western and the American conception of heroism and justice, of this popular adherence to the Old Testament to try to punish all the hatred and mendacity of the world, no matter that the avatar of justice is a whiskey - pickled, one - eyed serial killer.

It's funny, and it's terribly sad, and it owes its stickiness to that thing West understands about horror: that nothing feels colder than the loss of innocence to tedium, routine, and the unbearable mendacity of being.

It's not a masterpiece, but it is a rarity: one of those glimpses into another culture obsessed with ordinariness, mendacity, and universality.