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Example sentences for: mendacity

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According to Newsweek , Clinton attorney David Kendall is gathering dirt about Lewinsky's mendacity and presidential obsession.
Calling his own film "an exercise in mendacity," Barker goes on, "I'm quite happy to tell lies about my characters and even collude with their self-delusions if it enables me to communicate larger dramatic truths."
A statement that successfully picks its way across this dangerous terrain is said to exhibit an economy of truth , and a person who has uttered such a statement is said to have been economical with the truth . These characterizations, too, were originally conferred with a sense of professional appreciation (I first heard them on the lips of some Jesuit friends), but they have also been pulled out of truth's orbit and into the atmosphere of mendacity.
Dunst and Williams make Betsy and Arlene simple in ways that go beyond dumb, so that their budding awareness of Dick's mendacity has an unexpected emotional kick.
Then there's the underplayed fact that Fitzsimmons' mendacity could not possibly have influenced the national debate, because the segments of the Nightline interview in which Fitzsimmons says he lied through his teeth never aired!