| 单词 | mendacity |
| 例句 | If divorce had presented itself as the dastardly antithesis of all this, it could easily have been cast onto the other pan of the scales, along with betrayal, illness, thieving, assault and mendacity. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z We know merely what disasters his mendacity occasioned. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z It is unlikely he will ever topple the windmills of vanity, mendacity and gullibility that power today’s art world. Art in Review: ?POWHIDA? 2011-08-04T22:00:07Z Ambition morphs into mendacity, the profit motive becomes avarice. Built on Sand: The Get-Rich-Quick Scams of 1920s Florida 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z He was fed on lies, mythologies, the accreted mendacity of a white culture that will not confront its own erosion and its own corruption. Michael Eric Dyson: Donald Trump is “what black people have warned America about” 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z A fine-tuned melodrama about a wealthy Mississippi family undone by its patriarch’s cancer diagnosis, the play melts down the characters’ kept-up appearances and oft-mentioned “mendacity” as they scramble for his inheritance. Review: ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ Knows Its Good Angles 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z For all of its tightness and focus, his singing accounts for his perfectionism, his optimism and his grace, as well as his paranoia, his mendacity and his viciousness. Perspective | Hearing a Michael Jackson song still feels good. Listening has become too painful. 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z Keefe narrates the book in a strong, clear baritone, a prosecutorial voice remarkably suited to detailing this shameful docket of greed, mendacity, arrogance, callousness, corruption and hypocrisy. Review | The 3 best new audiobooks to listen to in August 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z Does Oliver believe there is method in the mendacity? John Oliver: ‘Maybe Brexit is a great idea. There’s absolutely nothing to suggest that’ 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z “The Good Boss” provides prime material for Bardem, who has to maintain a polished veneer even as his character’s mendacity and troubles mount. ‘The Good Boss’ Review: Company Man 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z "There is a theme of disappointment, the old 'mendacity theme' from 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,'" Gulli says. Rare Tennessee Williams story published 2014-03-25T04:08:35Z But the question remains: How will we survive the mendacity and imbecility of American politics and the media that cover it without Jon Stewart? Jon Stewart doesn’t give a damn anymore: Why the “Daily Show” host has never been more watchable 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Throughout the interwar years many people believed the Nazis’ reassuring mendacities because they wanted to. Review | Nazi Germany as a travel destination: A new book explores how Hitler duped tourists 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z Written by Cesare Zavattini, who did the screenplays for many of De Sica’s best-known works, the movie skewers the mendacity inherent in the postwar economic resurgence in his country. Review: From Vittorio De Sica, the Comic Anxieties of la Dolce Vita 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z In an age of reality television, journalistic fakery and political mendacity everyone knows that words and images can distort and mislead. Critic’s Notebook: Four Days of Films at Telluride 2012-09-03T22:16:36Z Wedgwood wrote about the moral and ethical deficiencies and mendacities of the figures involved in the Thirty Years War and the English Civil War. Review | The key to a more tranquil mind? One author argues it’s all about revisiting books from the past. 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z The most fundamental question in the book is how to be men and women of integrity and honesty in a time of such vast mendacity and criminality. 10 Questions with Cornel West 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z He carries a sword that was said to cut through confusion and mendacity. Review | Cute puppies and octopus sex: A Japanese art exhibition reveals our fascination with animals 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Bevilacqua’s great novel is titled “In Praise of Lying,” and Mr. Manguel’s own book is surely, as much as anything else, a foxy intellectual treatise on mendacity and its discontents. Books of The Times: ‘All Men Are Liars,’ a Novel by Alberto Manguel 2012-06-21T21:51:49Z Reading it provided a sorely needed antidote to the daily doses of negativity, absurdity and mendacity of Trump. Two Cities, Two Countries, Common Ground 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z American racial and class divisions, generational rifts, a national culture of violence and a degree of governmental mendacity too crass to be ignored were all contributing factors to the country’s on-the-edge view of the war. The American Vietnam War Is in the Spotlight, Again 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z “Now, with your camera, I’m exposing myself. My corruption, my mendacity, my hypocrisy.” Review | In Russell Banks’s ‘Foregone,’ a dying man comes clean 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z What’s it like to relive all that audacious scheming, profane mendacity and, some might argue, insanity? John Dean, sex machine? And other new revelations from the Nixon tapes. The roads to an honorable life promised by work and military service are mined and muddied by the greed and mendacity of the institutions — government, schools, banks — that are supposed to uphold integrity. | 'Warrior': ?Warrior,? Directed by Gavin O?Connor - Review 2011-09-08T16:26:17Z The one value the tooth fairy is sure to teach is mendacity. This Life: Act II for the Tooth Fairy ? This Life 2011-12-09T18:52:47Z Sidney Falco Publicity is its lodestar of ethical conduct, the office of Sarah Sanders its only rival in mendacity. “Flack,” Reviewed: Anna Paquin Has Plenty of Cocaine But Only One Pair of Shoes 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Will people remember the depths of his mendacity and hold him accountable? Perspective | The media must stop live-broadcasting Trump’s dangerous, destructive coronavirus briefings 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z Her cool, unflappable mendacity inspired comedian Michelle Wolf to crack that she burns facts and uses the ash to create “a perfect smoky eye” during April 2018’’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner. A Fox News afterlife for Sarah Huckabee Sanders: Why she's perfect for the job—and Sean Spicer's not 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z These days, does there seem to be a candidate leading the leagues in mendacity? “Politics is always about lying”: But you’re not crazy if you think the lies are getting bigger and more frequent 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z These inventions provide a lighthearted counterpoint to the more treacherous mendacity of the American government. 'My New American Life': Francine Prose's satirical novel of immigration 2011-05-11T21:04:03Z But Mr. Butterfield’s papers and reminiscences nonetheless yield granular details that slam home the mendacity, Machiavellian scheming and shameless lack of accountability that permeated the Nixon White House. Review: ‘The Last of the President’s Men,’ Wading Back Into the Watergate Swamp 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Toiling in the archives of the verifiable, fortified by the reliability of contemporaneous documentation, the fact-checker is a last defense against the chaos of unsupported assertion and outrageous mendacity. Review | Daniel Radcliffe a stickler for the truth in buoyant ‘Lifespan of a Fact’ 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z It revealed espionage as the devious, sly, unscrupulous practice of deception and mendacity – all for Queen and country. Partners in crime fiction 2011-07-22T08:00:02Z There’s no denying that audiences have changed since the show began, certainly in the way they respond to Evan’s mendacity. Perspective | Ben Platt’s seven-year journey with ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ has taken him from Arena Stage to Hollywood 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z Alone, you enter each of the boxes, where you are confronted by either a live or recorded performance, or in some instances the opportunity to contemplate or confess to your own mendacity. FIB 2010-08-04T21:30:00Z The greed of special interests, the mendacity of politicians, the cockroach endurance of lobbyists: If these are familiar, they are also endlessly compelling. Review: In ‘Kings,’ Washington Is Where Idealism Goes to Die 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Indeed, a river of exploitation and mendacity runs through “Descendant,” which draws connections between slavery, post-Reconstruction land grabs and Africatown’s pollution from nearby industries. ‘Descendant’ Review: The Fates of a Ship and its Captives 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z It’s tempting to assume that this must be the year the fever of mendacity, incompetence and confusion breaks. Got high hopes for 2018? Lower them, or you may be setting yourself up for a fall | Oliver Burkeman 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z So the audience would know that mendacity and bad things are not just out there; you’re not just victim of them, you perpetrate them yourself. Robert and Michelle King on ‘The Good Wife’ 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z The consequences of the escalating mendacity are nowhere more profound than in Evan’s relationship to Connor’s skeptical younger sister, Zoe, in whom Dreyfuss invests an irresistible mixture of tenderness and adolescent discontent. ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ radiates charm and wit, and that’s no lie 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z It has “covered our colleges and universities in a pall of mendacity.” Two Views of the Tumult on American Campuses 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Like other members of the service, Laszlo has a sixth sense for mendacity. Review | Imagine a country that prioritizes truth-telling above all else. Is it an improvement? 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z That Ms. Agee is wearing a wig and delivering these lines in a studiedly natural fashion seems like a bit of a clue to their possible mendacity. Dance Review: Spontaneity, Nudity and Absurdity: It Is What It Is 2011-03-25T22:43:59Z In his latest novel Christopher Buckley takes his mordant wit from inside the Beltway to the Holy Roman Empire of 1517, where hypocrisy, mendacity, corruption and greed are just as rampant. Six New Books, Including One by Christopher Buckley 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Politicians and cable-news personalities come in for scathing attack in equal measure, with short video excerpts used to reveal idiocy, mendacity, and hypocrisy. John Oliver's 'Last Week Tonight' 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z This current crock of mendacity is a "high-concept" fabrication, artlessly crass in its retelling of what's meant to be the greatest story ever told. The Final Testament of the Holy Bible by James Frey ? review 2011-04-10T04:00:00Z Now I took my first tentative step into mendacity. Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan - extract 2012-08-10T21:55:10Z Her new play extends the theme to attack not just the guilt but also the mendacity of a white journalistic witness to a war-zone atrocity. The Witness – review 2012-06-11T17:12:13Z Discussing the mendacity of officials in Japan, he repeats their warnings not to give in to or spread what they refer to as “harmful rumors.” William T. Vollmann Would Like a Word or Two About Climate Change. Or 1,200 Pages. 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z “For forty-five years, all my years in Canada, from the day I went out and bought my first sixteen-millimeter camera, I exposed corruption, mendacity, and hypocrisy in government and business,” Leo tells the director. Review | In Russell Banks’s ‘Foregone,’ a dying man comes clean 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z Blatant mendacity, Mr. Stewart said, has become ubiquitous and pernicious. Jon Stewart Signs Off From ‘Daily Show’ With Wit and Sincerity 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z As Ariel Dorfman observes, they also "exhibit a toxic mix of ignorance and mendacity," while legitimizing and reproducing a vocabulary and culture that revels in unrestricted power, cruelty, terror and "homicidal extremes." The real reason why Donald Trump wants Gen. Milley to be killed 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z They do nothing but drag us down to their lowest common denominator level of desultory mediocrity, jealousy, mendacity, dishonesty and entropy. Not made by great men: Enter the Little Man theory of history 2023-09-10T04:00:00Z In all seriousness, this kind of mendacity tends to catch up to a person. Time to Expose the Liar at Work? 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z His constant mendacity, the document asserts, was intended “to make his knowingly false claims appear legitimate, create an intense national atmosphere of mistrust and anger, and erode public faith in the administration of the election.” Column: Trump's election lies got him indicted, but they've worked all too well 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z The candidate most bluntly calling out Trump’s mendacity — New Jersey’s ex-Gov. Column: Trump's Big Lie and the Republican Etch A Sketch strategy 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Decoding how the tactics of mendacity work in manipulating minds, in order to come up with counterstrategies for obviating or stemming their deleterious influence, is an urgent objective. How Trump's speech is warping MAGA minds 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z However, she swiftly returned to the comfier space of mendacity, saying, "We have no clue as to why anyone would do such a thing." The most surprising part of the "homeless veterans" hoax? Fox News admitted they were wrong 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z That’s why it’s important to keep spotlighting Trump’s continued recklessness and mendacity. Column: Here's why an unhinged Trump can't be ignored, tempting as it may be 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Truth-defending humans may not have the capacity to effectively push back against the mendacity machine. Ready or not - and we are not - here comes AI | Horsey cartoon 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z The prospect of indictment is a dramatic reminder, if one was needed, of the former president’s essential mendacity and moral bankruptcy. Column: Scandal after scandal, Trump has defied political physics. Will this time be different? 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z The most flagrant examples of this triumph of mendacity sit at either end of the Republican power spectrum. Pence avoids speaking the truth about Trump at all costs 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Nikita Yuferev, an opposition councillor in the city where Putin was born, said he knew his legal challenge would go nowhere, but he had filed it to expose the "mendacity" of the system. Russian politician files legal challenge over Putin's reference to Ukraine "war" 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z But what sense can we make of that, after many millions of voters supported Big Lie and election-denying candidates in the face of their obvious mendacity? A big win for democracy? Not so fast: This was a welcome reprieve — but that's all 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z Before Donald Trump, Republicans spent decades proclaiming character mattered, until they saw mendacity could win the White House and hold a Senate majority. Opinion | Voters must rebuke those who choose ambition over human decency 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Combining perishable secrecy with detectable mendacity, Khrushchev instructed an intermediary to assure Robert Kennedy, and hence his brother, that “no missile capable of reaching the United States will be placed in Cuba.” Opinion | The nuclear threat may be graver now than in the Cuban missile crisis 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z Because all untruths are antithetical to science, we hope this issue will serve in some measure as an antidote to the poison of manipulated facts and other forms of mendacity. Truth under Attack 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z “The tragedy is that whoever replaces Johnson will inevitably be someone who tolerated his mendacity, corruption and incompetence for years,” Cambridge University history professor Richard Evans wrote in the New Statesman. As Boris Johnson departs, UK takes stock of his messy legacy 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z Testimony during the civil trial left no doubt of Mr. Jones’s mendacity. Opinion | At last, Alex Jones will pay for his despicable lies 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z For all his mendacity, vulgarity and hunger for power, Johnson is a consummate insider, an upper-class populist of a sort stereotypically familiar to the British public. Boris Johnson only wishes he were Donald Trump: But his comeback dreams won't come true 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z And, yet, Trump persisted in his election lies and dragged the Republican Party with him into that pit of mendacity. We cannot shy away from hard facts about Trump’s betrayal 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z His imprisonment for revealing the war crimes, mendacity, cynicism and corruption of the ruling class, including the Democratic Party, heralds a new era. The Four Horsemen of the 21st century: War, capitalism, fascism and mass death 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Our monster's malignity stems from pure narcissistic psychopathy — and he refuses to leave the stage or cease his vile mendacity. Yes, Donald Trump is an "American monster": But he wasn't built by a mad scientist 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z Few people will make the very rapid descent into racist evil and murder that the Buffalo assailant did, but millions of American are still being lured far into this jungle of mendacity. The pack has the ‘lone wolf’s’ back 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Will Musk make it even worse by reopening the Twitter cesspool of swirling mendacity? Misinformation’s wingman? | Horsey cartoon 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z But this tendency to excuse mendacity shifted from bad habit to mortal sin with the party’s embrace of that “big lie” about the election Trump lost to Joe Biden. Opinion | No Republican who participates in the war on truth deserves your vote 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z They are the truth, and a record of the mendacity and brutality of the Russian military. Opinion | Photographing Hell 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z It is also perhaps fitting that Russian President Vladimir Putin, a fellow media manipulator, has shown by his actions in Ukraine how mendacity can be inflationary. Perspective | Boris Johnson is a master of distraction. What if that stops working? 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Many of those figures have become eloquent champions of democracy, staunch opponents of Trump's limitless mendacity and corrosive attacks on democracy, and equally staunch opponents of Putin's aggression. Putin's massive miscalculation: Echoes of George W. Bush — and a lesson for America's elites 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z Karsnitz suggested Wood’s participation in lawsuits in Georgia and Wisconsin challenging the 2020 election results demonstrated “a toxic stew of mendacity, prevarication and surprising incompetence.” Delaware court upholds dismissal of Candace Owens lawsuit 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z A majority of Conservative MPs voted to make him prime minister after “thirty years of celebrity made him famous for his mendacity, indifference to detail, poor administration, and inveterate betrayal of every personal commitment.” Opinion | Donald Trump and Boris Johnson have much in common, with one vital, deflating difference 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z He’s not a neutral conduit of “differing opinions,” but a vector of known duplicity and mendacity. Column: Neil Young, Joe Rogan, and the virtue of boycotts 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z It is an undeniable triumph of interminable propaganda streaming on specific sectors of TV, radio and anti-social media — an amalgam constituting a noxious nexus of alluring mendacity. Lies and misinformation: Cautionary tale 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z They have chosen to sustain the mendacity, some by loudly repeating preposterous untruths and the rest by cowering in silence, fearing Trump and his mob might target them next. Boxed in by Trump’s Big Lie 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z Trump’s mendacity has created the rationale for democracy-wrecking measures in state after state while emboldening a movement to intimidate nonpartisan election officials into resigning so they can be replaced by those who embrace his falsehoods. Opinion | President Biden, push the voting bills now 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Explicit references to mendacity warn the reader that no one is entirely reliable. Review: A secret becomes a heavy burden in Jhumpa Lahiri's latest translation of Domenico Starnone 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z The rise of such a flagrant mendacity is usually located very recently, in Donald Trump’s first election run or in the dawning of the social media age. How 9/11 Ushered in a New Era of Conspiracy Theories 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z The colonel demanded an apology, but Mr. Sprey responded by calling him a “slimy creature” who “oozed mendacity.” Pierre Sprey, Pentagon analyst who battled brass to produce A-10 warplane, dies at 83 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z The answer is easy: No. He cared too deeply about the institutions he led to emulate Mr. McCarthy’s embrace of Trumpian mendacity. Opinion | The Jan. 6 hearings begin 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z He exposed it over and over and over until there was no question of the endemic illegality, corruption and mendacity that defines the global ruling elite. Revisiting the case of Julian Assange and the reality of the "rule of law" 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z Nothing about Lindell's performance seems insincere, which is one of the things that makes him stand out in a landscape of near-universal mendacity. Is the Trump "reinstatement" fanfic actually dangerous, or just hilarious? (Spoiler: Yes) 2021-06-06T04:00:00Z This episode, illustrating academia’s familiar compound of vanity, mendacity and cowardice, was not startling. Opinion | When will all of the shrill nonsense stop? Perhaps when people are bored enough. 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z Almost everything surrounding Henry's history speaks to the brazen mendacity of what might be called the sexual-abuse industrial complex, where legitimate claims go to die — or in legal-eagle parlance, to get "risk-mitigated." U.S. Olympic Committee’s controversial abuse investigator fails upward — to the federal courts 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z This kind of determined mendacity requires rolling out the big guns. Opinion | Elected Republicans are lying with open eyes. Their excuses are disgraceful. 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z Indeed, thanks in good part to Trump’s mendacity, these are glory days for an academic with Olmsted’s expertise, which has placed her in great demand as an explainer and debunker. Column: Conspiracies run amok. (Did you hear the one about Joan Rivers, Michelle Obama and the Clintons?) 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z However, one historian argues that the recent tenant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, by the sheer volume of his mendacity, has destroyed the very idea of shared truth in American politics. Who truly was the most dishonest president? 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z It's nice to hear Baron now acknowledge that the Post should have been "much more forthright about Trump's mendacity" from the beginning. Outgoing Washington Post editor finally, begrudgingly admits mistakes in Trump coverage 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z As we mourn the demise of veracity and integrity in our public discourse, perhaps we should consider the implications of requiring mendacity as a precondition for using the tools and services of modern life. Opinion | Read the Legalese? Nah, Just Click ‘Agree’ 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z Four years of Mr. Trump’s cruelty, mendacity, narcissism and vicious fight to overturn our democracy became history, at last. Opinion | Twitter was right to ban Mr. Trump 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z The new president’s words could also be read as a sally against right-wing media that fed and amplified his predecessor’s mendacity. Opinion | Biden’s speech was a commitment to a new democracy 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z Biden spoke firmly and directly about the Capitol riot and the lies that inspired it, and about the necessity of answering mendacity and homegrown terror with truth and renewed unity. A return to gravitas 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z Baron: We had to be much more forthright about Trump's mendacity, his lies over the course of the administration. Outgoing Washington Post editor finally, begrudgingly admits mistakes in Trump coverage 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z I believe he doesn’t care about, and may not even fully comprehend, the difference between truth and lies, between honesty and mendacity. Opinion | George Conway: What I really believe 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z A Superior Court judge ruled Monday that L. Lin Wood’s actions in election-related lawsuits in Georgia and Wisconsin “exhibited a toxic stew of mendacity, prevarication, and surprising incompetence.” Judge boots Trump attorney from Carter Page defamation suit 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z It will expose the mendacity of the powerful, however hard it will be to obtain. The ruling elite's war on truth: America's leaders are increasingly disconnected from reality 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Why is it wrong to lie, mislead and purposely run aground a ship captained with ignorance, selfishness and mendacity? Election: Victory, then vigilance 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z About 70 million Americans took a good look at the last four years of racism, mendacity and cruelty – and voted for another four. From the editor of Guardian US: a fresh start for America | John Mulholland 2020-11-07T05:00:00Z Those are federal appointees who arguably were trying to do good but were simply overmatched by the mendacity and amorality of the White House they served. Column: A Biden victory would put an end to Trump appointees vandalizing their own agencies 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z Given the scale of the administration’s mendacity and cruelty, taking back the White House, if that happens, doesn’t seem like quite enough of a victory. Perspective | Let history, not partisans, prosecute Trump 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z Unlike Trump, Graham is not a pathological liar, but his mendacity fits the category of “duping delight” as defined by Bok: “It evokes the excitement, allure, challenge that lying can involve.” Lindsey Graham, reverse ferret: how John McCain's spaniel became Trump's poodle 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z It features egregious internal sycophancy and hacks in high positions, abusive presidential rhetoric and mendacity on an unusual scale. Opinion | There Will Be No Trump Coup 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z And then the virus put the lie to that kind of political mendacity. How Alex Gibney pulled off a secret exposé of America's COVID-19 failures in 5 months 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z This issue, we hope, will serve in some measure as an antidote to the poison of gaslighting and other forms of mendacity. 21st-Century Gaslighting 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z I don’t need a bumper sticker or a lawn sign to convey my distaste for Trump — his odious tweets, his chronic mendacity and general crudeness. Opinion | I never considered voting for Trump in 2016. I may be forced to vote for him this year. 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z But Trump’s mendacities — more numerous and more brazen than those of any president before him — are different. Trump’s lies drain our ability to be indignant 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z Trump’s mendacity and vulgarity have defamed the United States of America for too long. Column: William Barr is trying to make Trump's misogyny officially 'presidential' 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z This is a man whose ignorance and his mendacity are dangerous to our democracy. Stacey Abrams has a message for Trump after he calls for supporters to vote more than once 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z Imagine that: The best way to skewer Trump’s mendacity and madness is simply to show his words emerging from the mouth of a sane person. Opinion | Trump has killed satire 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z He rails endlessly against “fake news,” which is any news story that gets too close to the truth about his gross incompetence, chronic self-absorption and perpetual mendacity. But how do you really feel about journalists, President Trump? 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z With mendacity and menace, the 2020 election campaign was back under way. Briefing or rally? Trump shifts to campaign mode as he rails against the media 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z In a recent column, I expressed the hope that the coronavirus epidemic, by exposing the incompetence and mendacity of the Trump regime, will bring it to an end. Does Surging Existential Dread Help Trump? 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z His grandiose personality defects — the blustering, mendacity and truculent solipsism — are made for “South Park,” not Sophocles. Oedipus Rex vs. President Trump: Leaders reveal themselves in times of plague 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z In November, voters appalled by the incompetence and mendacity of the Trump administration will vote for Joe Biden, who will win in a landslide. Optimism in a Dark Time 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z Wilson, who has experience in crisis management, described the president’s response so far as “the usual Trumpian irresponsibility and mendacity in one package”. 'A tweet can't knock over a pandemic': has Trump met his match in coronavirus? 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z She might also be said to prompt fables and fabrication, lore and lies, and misconceptions and mendacity. Perspective | Five myths about Jane Austen 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z On Tuesday, Trump gave a State of the Union address that was an appalling mixture of bombast, mendacity and reality-television shtick. Opinion | Mike Bloomberg won the Iowa caucuses 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z Millions of Americans respond to yet another batch of presidential mendacities about yet another sordid presidential action by thinking: This is not news. Opinion | There is more utility than futility in the impeachment trial 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Its success depends upon one-way-mirror operations engineered for our ignorance and wrapped in a fog of misdirection, euphemism and mendacity. Opinion | You Are Now Remotely Controlled 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z “When we talk about mendacity, when we talk about lying, it’s not just lying about a particular program. It’s lying by omissions,” he said. Afghan war plagued by ‘mendacity’ and lies, inspector general tells Congress 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z “It was about honesty in the face of deception. It is not about mendacity. It is not about being too arrogant, condescending.” Cornel West warns against Bernie Sanders rivals’ attempt to sow division 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z “We created an incentive to almost require people to lie. … There’s an odor of mendacity throughout Afghanistan issue,” the IG said. IG says U.S. officials pressured to hide Afghan problems 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z “There’s an odor of mendacity throughout the Afghanistan issue,” Sopko said Wednesday. Afghanistan watchdog delivers damning testimony on US failures: 'We have incentivized lying' 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z Nonetheless, these documents are welcome, since they — like the WikiLeaks revelations — shine a light on the mendacity of the U.S. governments regarding these wars against Afghanistan and then Iraq. Why the Afghanistan papers are an eerie reminder of Vietnam 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Sadly, this demoralizing display of shamelessness, mendacity and bad faith from Republicans is probably only a taste of what the country is facing when articles of impeachment go to a trial in the Senate. Impeachment: Republicans have no defense for Trump — just tribal hatred of Democrats 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z We are yet to see the editors of this curated mendacity hauled up in front of a public gallery and questioned. Who is to blame for our bullying culture? Not just tech corporations | Nesrine Malik 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z To allow users to do this anonymously and without liability is a licence to mendacity and slander. Ignore Zuckerberg’s self-serving rubbish. Facebook must be regulated | Simon Jenkins 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Remarkably, though, given everything we know about the unrivaled mendacity of this president, journalists as well as observers at home believed him, at least for a while. So we're supposed to treat Donald Trump with respect, after all this? Oh, hell no 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Facebook must do better to censor mendacity but the fault, I fear, is not in our platforms, but in ourselves. Facebook and personal responsibility 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z One need only look to the alarming renaissance of once-conquered diseases, driven by anti-vaccine disinformation online—the human cost when superstition and mendacity outpace science. Don't Fall Prey to Scaremongering about 5G 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Yes, it is the case that we are prone to violence, hatred, tribalism, selfishness and mendacity. Is the world getting worse? Nicholas Christakis says in the big picture that's not true 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z This capital of white marble is now encircled by yellow tape, rife with mendacity, cowardice and corruption. Opinion | Touch of Evil 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z Modi has established – to massive Indian acclaim – the regime of brute power and mendacity that Mahatma Gandhi explicitly warned his compatriots against: “English rule without the Englishman”. The west’s custodians of democracy failed to notice it rotting away | Pankaj Mishra 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z This is also wishful thinking in that it papers over the mendacity or foolhardiness of those in charge – because again, how unnerving is that? Why do we cling to the myth of the evil genius? Because the alternative is worse | Nesrine Malik 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z The claim that the British government sells only for internal security ranks high in Whitehall’s mendacity register. The London arms fair is an inexcusable disgrace – it’s a stain on the nation | Simon Jenkins 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z But today’s GOP yields to Trumpian ethics, turns away from daily mendacity and discards the standards it demanded of previous presidents. Opinion | The Republican Party won’t stand up to Trump 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z The mendacity of the C.E.O.s of the Business Roundtable in issuing their revised statement of corporate purpose is disappointing if not surprising. Opinion | C.E.O. Pledge of Social Responsibility 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z The strategic folly of surrendering a lead role in a continental power bloc was advertised in every scene during the article 50 negotiations, alongside lurid examples of prominent leavers’ mendacity. Just as in 1914, the Brexit buildup is making calamity feel inevitable | Rafael Behr 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z With a large enough dose of mendacity and malice, my fabrication might even go viral. Opinion | Trump’s spread of conspiracy theories undermines a belief in truth itself 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z More to the point, healthcare legal expert Nicholas Bagley of the University of Michigan called the tweet “a profile in mendacity.” Kamala Harris joins the club with a solid 'Medicare for all' proposal 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z In 2016, his energy, and popularity — and, critics say, mendacity — played a key role in the EU referendum campaign. Boris Johnson’s chaotic path to power finally pays off 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z In 2016, his energy, and popularity - and, critics say, mendacity - played a key role in the EU referendum campaign. Boris Johnson’s chaotic path to power finally pays off 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z And many other countries are similarly infected by the mendacity virus. In Moscow, Riyadh and Washington, this is the age of the shameless lie 2019-06-22T04:00:00Z Around that time, Conway accused Trump of "brazen, pathological mendacity" and called one of his speeches "incoherent." George Conway renews attacks on Trump, calls on president to resign 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z The combination of malice and mendacity precluded a free-speech defense , and the jury accepted the obvious: The college’s supposed adults were complicit in this protracted smear. Opinion | Oberlin College had an admirable liberal past. Now, it’s a disgrace. 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z It seems the election we eventually get will be a battle between dull stubbornness and flamboyant mendacity. Wake up, England: Boris Johnson’s ‘charm’ is just the arrogance of those born to rule | Suzanne Moore 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Elections have consequences, but so too does an avalanche of mendacity. Trump and his team confront their crisis of credibility 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Noble-minded reporters thought this was mightily rude of a professional comedian, mentioning Sanders’ makeup in the same breath as her mendacity. Good riddance, Sarah Sanders, Washington's worst communicator | Richard Wolffe 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Once you start covering for the president’s mendacity and perfidy, it’s impossible to stop — at least without admitting the entire fraud. Opinion | Bye-bye, Sarah Sanders 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z This is condign punishment for the college’s mendacity about helping to incite a mob mentality and collective bullying in response to “racist” behavior that never happened. Opinion | Oberlin College had an admirable liberal past. Now, it’s a disgrace. 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z His opening statement at the hearing was a marvel of mendacity, a true masterpiece in the art of using legalistic language to distort the truth beyond all recognition. Cracks show in Bill Barr's legal-walrus facade: Mueller letters make for a bad day on Capitol Hill 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z This era is producing men and women of such grandiose mendacity that it will be a miracle if the next generation believes that anyone in politics is even capable of acting in the national interest. Bill Barr could well be the most odious of Donald Trump's henchmen 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z Amid this culture of malfeasance and mendacity, trusted lieutenants are expected to demonstrate absolute loyalty, up to and including obstructing justice to save the president’s skin. Teflon Don: how Trump the mafia boss fought the law … and won 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z By releasing a thick catalogue of misconduct and mendacity that, if not criminal, is deeply unflattering, Mueller’s report may mean long-term political problems for a president seeking reelection next year. Mueller report lays out obstruction evidence against the president 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Each of the dullards recounted different stories which varied from day to day and were consistent only in their mendacity. Militias, chaos and starvation: Britain 10 years after Brexit 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z The whole point of the so-called “Fourth Estate” — that unofficial, quasi-fourth branch of government — is to mercilessly hound politicians from their comfortable lairs of mendacity. Media amplified Adam Schiff’s voice, shouted down the truth 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z There are, alas, many con artists, of varying levels of mendacity, among us. The Elizabeth Holmes story is not about the black and the blinks 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z But unlike his mendacity related to all things Russia, Trump’s lies about policies actually matter to Americans. Opinion | The Mueller war is over — and Trump won 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z The Constitution does not stipulate that the President be a good person, or that his associates refrain from mendacity or criminality. “Trump Wins!”: The President, the Mueller Report, and Our New Political Normal 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z “Have we ever seen this degree of brazen, pathological mendacity in American public life?” Is America Becoming Trump’s Banana Republic? 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Four decades of gathering uselessness and mendacity had brought us to this occasion, to which we might as well picture Archer and Onasanya as bookends. With Theresa’s ‘turd’ deal flushed away, pray for an EU invasion | Marina Hyde 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z But his mendacity was so obvious and easily proven that the falsehoods acted, often, as confirmations. What Michael Cohen’s Testimony Will Tell Us About Trump’s Business, Bluster, and Wealth 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Unless, that is, Trump’s firehose of mendacity triumphs once again, aided by the media’s hapless complicity, its incapacity to adapt and adequately report what’s going on. Lies, bulls**t and gaslighting: A field guide to Trump's reality-warping mendacity 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z The President lets it all hang out: the incoherence, the fabrications, the mendacity, the raging but delicate ego, the attention-deficit disorder, and, occasionally, the revealing shards of self-illumination. A Weak and Rambling President Declares a Fake National Emergency 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z Third, the GND reveals progressives’ embrace of Trump’s political style, a stew of frivolity and mendacity. Opinion | Progressives are emulating Trump — and reality is leaking from American life 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z The broader problem is that the depravity, mendacity, vulgarity, and menace of the Trump Administration have put a lot of people, including reporters and editors, off their stride. Does Journalism Have a Future? 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z The project was driven by decades of camped-up mendacity about the tyranny of the EU, and sold in the referendum as a fantasy of national liberation. It was never about Europe. Brexit is Britain’s reckoning with itself | Fintan O’Toole 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z But now, with the 2020 race is off to the earliest start ever, the media has yet to adequately adapt to the sheer magnitude, intensity and sweep of Trump’s mendacity. Lies, bulls**t and gaslighting: A field guide to Trump's reality-warping mendacity 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Brian Stelter, CNN’s media editor, told the New Yorker he thought the decision was driven by tradition: “It is not that television networks are unaware or uninterested in the president’s mendacity,” he said. US TV networks put ratings over principle by airing Trump speech | Emily Bell 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z Carmela was an equally vivid conundrum of forthright honesty and systemic mendacity. ‘The Sopranos’ at 20: Melfi, Carmela, Livia — the women of HBO's mobster epic made it magic 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z The decision by major broadcast networks to carry Mr. Trump’s address live set off a fierce debate over journalistic responsibility in an age of unusual mendacity in politics. Anchors Scramble to Fact-Check Trump After Prime-Time Address 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z It is not that television networks are unaware or uninterested in the President’s mendacity. Why the Networks Are Broadcasting Trump: An Interview with CNN’s Brian Stelter 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z At least in the past, however, mendacity had a limited shelf life in America. In our new post-truth era, the way we view reality is more important than ever 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z The many modes of mendacity inside the Trump circle would be amusing if the team were not in possession of the nuclear launch codes. Opinion | All the Trumpians’ lies have one thing in common 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z As for the public discourse, it is almost completely corrupted by mendacity. Literary Hoaxes and the Ethics of Authorship 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Trump’s inflation/mendacity nexus notwithstanding, there’s a related problem the president doesn’t seem to appreciate: much of the Mueller investigation is paying for itself. Trump's misguided crusade against the cost of the Mueller investigation 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z An aura of corruption, lies, mendacity and violence defines this administration. Donald Trump’s fascist politics and the language of disappearance 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z There are ways to report on his mendacity without making a spectacle of it. Time to walk away: Real journalists should boycott the farcical White House press briefings 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z He has established a whole new level of mendacity, averaging 30 false or misleading statements a day now, and totaling 6,420 such bogus claims during his presidency. Opinion | We have no excuses now. Our eyes are wide open. 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z While the president berates the media for their lies – “all we want is honest coverage”, he says tonight – his own taste for mendacity has been on ample display all week. Feel the love, feel the hate – my week in the cauldron of Trump's wild rallies 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z His instruments are resentment, sarcasm, unbounded insult, casual mendacity, and the swaggering assertion of dominance. The Midterm Elections Are a Referendum on Donald Trump 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z But the AEA, its carelessness and/or mendacity stymied, wants revenge and to send a message: Do not render decisions that anger a special interest with especially deep pockets. Opinion | Arizona voters can save their judiciary from its spiral into politics 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Opponents accuse Trump of trading in misogyny, racism, mendacity, crassness and chaos, as painfully documented by authors Michael Wolff and Bob Woodward. 'He'll be re-elected': Trump and allies tout the sweet smell of 2020 success 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z His lies were constant, sometimes perplexingly pointless, often easily disprovable, and together this tapestry of mendacity shows him to be the very opposite of what a justice should be. Brett Kavanaugh's many lies should disqualify him from holding any office | Rebecca Solnit 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z How could a man who appears to value honor and the integrity of the legal system explain this apparent mendacity? Perspective | Kavanaugh is lying. His upbringing explains why. 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z One recalls with a grimace how reporters treated Hillary Clinton’s sloppy handling of emails as an object of concern equivalent to the racism, misogyny, mendacity, ineptitude, ignorance and corruption that trail Trump like an odor. Falsehoods don’t merit impartiality 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Just as Putin’s mischief-making, mendacity and posturing show a leader craving for macho publicity, so does the west’s response. Britain’s reaction to the Salisbury poisonings plays into Putin’s hands | Simon Jenkins 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Only the day before the Op-Ed was published, excerpts from Bob Woodward’s new book, “Fear,” added to the ever-accumulating picture of chaos, mendacity, fear, embattlement, and contempt for the President even within his senior staff. The Anonymous New York Times Op-Ed and the Trumpian Corruption of Language and the Media 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z To liberals grateful for institutional counterweights to the Trump Administration’s crookedness, cruelty, and mendacity, Greenwald has been discouraging: U.S. institutions have long been broken, he maintains, and can offer only illusory comfort. Glenn Greenwald, the Bane of Their Resistance 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z But President Trump is a rolling disaster of mendacity, corruption and prejudice. Opinion | The only way to save the GOP is to defeat it 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Denialism is not stupidity, or ignorance, or mendacity, or psychological pathology. Denialism: what drives people to reject the truth 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Meanwhile a score of developers are mobilising from different angles against the spread of sheer mendacity that has plagued elections from here to the US, Canada to Nigeria. Ignore Zuckerberg. With skill and imagination we can drive the haters offline | Zoe Williams 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Generally speaking, most of us have cynically accepted the role of spin and deception in public service, but it’s still infuriating to witness flagrant mendacity up close, especially when the lying is so easily debunked. Donald Trump may be the worst liar in political history: And it’s getting worse 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Yet there is a method to the mendacity, which conservative political commentator Amanda Carpenter unpacks neatly in her book “Gaslighting America.” Can truth survive this president? An honest investigation. 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z It is here that IPN is gathering Poland’s monuments of gratitude for a museum aimed at exposing the mendacity of the communist system. Poles apart: the bitter conflict over a nation’s communist history 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z But while Trump’s truth allergy is important in its own right, this specific mendacity carries a broader significance. On immigration bill, Trump lies, leaves allies 'in the wilderness' 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Writing last week for NBCNews.com, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at University College London, along with a researcher, offered an explanation for Trump’s mendacity. Opinion | Trump’s not a liar. He’s a madman. 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z For at heart he was a true moralist, fired to root out hypocrisy and mendacity in public life as well as private. ‘Savagely funny and bitingly honest’ – 12 writers on their favourite Philip Roth novels 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Another Washington parlour game is seeking analogues for Trump in past presidents: the demagoguery and racism of Andrew Jackson, the corruption and mendacity of Richard Nixon, the celebrity and media savvy of Ronald Reagan. Facing Trump, a historian appeals to America's soul: 'I think we'll survive' 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z That is not deriding Sanders’s looks, it is deriding her mendacity and that of the administration she serves. Another week of lies and still Trump, the huckster, keeps his tawdry show going | Sarah Churchwell 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z Karl’s pointed question, however, wasn’t the only evidence that the political world’s tolerance for Trump World mendacity is reaching a breaking point. Donald Trump's crisis of credibility reaches a new level 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Having gotten in the habit of lying regularly about matters big and small, Trump has set new records for mendacity while in office. Opinion | Trump is a grifter, same as ever 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z “What Jeff Sessions said is simply not true and I call upon him to apologize to the people of California for bringing the mendacity of Washington to California,” Brown told reporters. Jerry Brown says Jeff Sessions acting ‘more like Fox News than a law enforcement officer’ 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z One simply cannot keep up with, much less respond with proper outrage to, all of this guy’s scandals, bungles, blame-shifting, name-calling and missteps, his sundry acts of mendacity, misanthropy, perversity and idiocy. One year in — hang in there 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z To many, “bad faith” is the phrase that seems to capture our entire moment, in all its mendacity and duplicitousness and engineered confusion. American Politics Is Swamped With ‘Bad Faith’ Actors 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z No one asked about the occupation of the West Bank, the civil liberties of Palestinians, the awesome political power of intolerant ultra-Orthodox Jews or the appalling mendacity of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Opinion | American Jews vs. Israel 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z The cynicism and mendacity runs so very wide and deep. Tax Plan Crowns a Big Winner: Trump’s Industry 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Maybe Pence is the victim of Team Trump’s mendacity; maybe Pence understands more than he lets on. Another Pence claim about Russia scandal turns out to be untrue 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z It believes in the media mendacity that Trump proclaims, and Fox News incessantly echoes. Opinion | How Rupert Murdoch destroyed the Republican Party 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z Is it also “highly inappropriate” to question the word of a Gold Star family that has vastly more credibility than a president with a track record of breathtaking mendacity? Donald Trump pushes back against fallen soldier's widow 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z If this were the only tall tale Cassidy and his cohorts were telling, it might seem like a manageable level of mendacity, but it’s actually just the start. Trump isn't the only one fibbing about the GOP's health care plan 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Only in that way do you reveal its mendacity, its triviality. UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol T. Christ: 'Free speech has itself become controversial' 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z But now that we have a solid sense of Trump’s historic mendacity, incompetence, ignorance and corruption as president, the struggle to normalize him has grown exponentially more infuriating than it was even a year ago. There they go again: One deal with Democrats and Trump's "a different kind of president" 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z Donald Trump is the CEO of his own “mendacity industrial complex”. Trump’s theater of hate goes nuclear in Phoenix: Lies, conspiracy theories and threats of violence 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z It is no longer healing to root through old video clips and tweets for evidence of Trump hypocrisy, vulgarity or mendacity to use as kindling for the social-media pyre. Anytime but Now: The Perils of Fighting Last Year's Wars and Pining for Yesterday's Heroes 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z You’d think a White House known for mendacity about secret meetings with Russians, economics and why Trump fired the FBI director would put out a few white lies about this. John Kelly: An adult in a childish president’s White House 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z You’ll also be reporting to Kelly’s own boss, who rewards loyalty, mendacity, caprice and excellent television ratings. Opinion | With ousting of Scaramucci, White House seeks ‘clean slate.’ Too late for that. 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z Others are aghast at the cartoonish levels of ineptitude, mendacity and opportunism that every member of this family seems to display. Like father like son? What conservatives are writing about Donald Trump Jr 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z The leave campaign pioneered the tactics of flagrant mendacity and racially charged nationalism – promising things that were unavailable and stoking fear of immigrant hordes. From Brexit to Trump, on both sides of the Atlantic populism has run aground | Rafael Behr 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z The conclusion follows not simply from Trump’s long and durable history of mendacity. Either Trump or Comey is lying. Who might it be? | Lawrence Douglas 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Following the lamentable campaign of 2016, people surely had modest expectations for the manner in which Trump would conduct himself in office, but his belligerence and his mendacity have been astonishing even by his standards. Firing Comey Was a Grave Abuse of Power 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z But Trump simply refused to acknowledge his mendacity. Ten alternative facts for the post truth world 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z The Age of the Id – the era of Breitbart – came upon us as we were otherwise busy keeping our noses clean in a world of constant, low-level mendacity. Praise Philip, the Prince of Misrule | James Hawes 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z Bannon was correct—if by opposition we understand resistance to a politics of mendacity designed to deprive Americans of the truths necessary to informed self-governance. Donald Trump's first 100 days were a stress test for democracy | Lawrence Douglas 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Conversely, if a news organization failed to correctly anticipate the president’s win at the polls, Trumpspeak treats this as evidence of the falsity and mendacity of that organization’s reportage about all of reality. Donald Trump's dizzying Time magazine interview was 'Trumpspeak' on display | Douglas Lawrence 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Truth tellers are especially important and potentially vulnerable in an administration afflicted with serial mendacity. Perspective | Trump withdraws reappointment nomination of popular whistleblower advocate 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z “America’s allies are having to protect themselves against being tarred with the White House’s mendacity.” British furious over claim U.K. eavesdropped on Trump for Obama 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Under the circumstances, it’s tempting to treat Trump as an anomaly and to view his mendacity as some sort of new development in conservative circles. Donald Trump tells a lot of lies — but he’s just building on a long Republican tradition 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z The pattern of taxpayer-financed mendacity continued nearly every day under the new regime, with lies about everything from the murder rate to the weather. A surreal one-month progress report 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Democrats, eager to probe Trump’s alleged links to Russia, which intelligence agencies concluded worked to damage his election rival Hillary Clinton, have seized on the alleged mendacity and called for Flynn’s dismissal. Trump avoids Michael Flynn controversy amid rumors of White House shake-up 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z “Most everyone expects a little audacity - maybe even a little mendacity - in their advertising,” Gorsuch wrote in 2015 to uphold a claim by General Steel Corp. against a competitor. Supreme Court nominee has defended free speech, religion 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z “Most everyone expects a little audacity — maybe even a little mendacity — in their advertising,” Gorsuch wrote in 2015 to uphold a claim by General Steel Corp. against a competitor. Supreme Court nominee has defended free speech, religion 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z Trump’s radical strategy would not be possible in a less fractured media environment and without Trump’s minions of mendacity at Breitbart and Fox News. Why Trump wants to disempower institutions that protect the truth | Lawrence Douglas 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z But it is also a useful thumbnail of the primacy of language to her understanding of politics; cliches in the service of control, their mundanity, their mendacity, cannot but amuse her. Totalitarianism in the age of Trump: lessons from Hannah Arendt 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z It can find a way across the morass of partiality and mendacity to the firm ground of fact. Post-truth politics will be debunked by online facts | Simon Jenkins 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z In such a world, Trump’s chronic mendacity becomes unremarkable. Election rigging 101: Donald Trump’s crash course in hijacking democracy 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z In those dark moments of mendacity, I thought about the giant rat from “The Boy Who Drew Cats” that I had imagined escaping from my father’s cellar on that first visit long ago. Behind the Cellar Door 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z First, whoever hacked into the DNC is not responsible for all the lies, corruption, political rigging and mendacity exposed by the hacked emails. How Democrats rolled out the red carpet for hackers 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z But I’m content for the most part to leave the judgment about motive—and mendacity—to our readers, who are more than capable of making up their own minds about what constitutes a lie. Trump, ‘Lies’ and Honest Journalism 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Likewise, Trump is reportedly popular in some quarters for his personal failings, even mendacities, rather than for any perceived virtues. Post-truth politics will be debunked by online facts | Simon Jenkins 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z As usual, Trump led with mendacity, misrepresenting the costs of the program. The madness of King Donald 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z It is also a timely reminder that the forces of avarice, corruption, self-delusion and mendacity remain a constant in human history. 10 Historians Pick the Best History Books of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Trump arrives in Washington claiming to be the only honest man in a world of mendacity. Trump’s hypocrisy is good for America 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z I—and The Wall Street Journal—stand accused of imperiling the republic by adopting a craven deference to presidential mendacity. Trump, ‘Lies’ and Honest Journalism 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z “That’s when people in the campaign press corp got disgusted not just with Trump’s mendacity and manipulation but at themselves for playing along with it. That turned the worm.” Trump v the media: did his tactics mortally wound the fourth estate? 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z No one should forget the mendacity, the vulgarity, the ugliness, the insanity. Where I wish President Trump failure 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Ironically, one of the most widely shared quotes attributed to Trump’s mendacity turns out to be probably fake too. My journeys in Trumpland 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z The GOP was easily captured, and then quickly normalized, by history’s most unpleasant and unprepared candidate, whose campaign was a Niagara of mendacities. A ruinous triumph for the GOP 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z She embodied Washington, the swamp he pledged to drain, in all its mansions and motorcades and mendacity. The Making of President Donald Trump 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z At the same time, Clinton was absorbing a daily dose of WikiLeaks, offering an extremely unappealing tableau of mendacity, deception and the intermingling of public service with private self-enrichment. Final days, awful choice 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z News outlets, they say, treat her minor transgressions, or alleged transgressions, in the same way it treats outright demagoguery, mendacity, and grotesquery on Trump’s part. Two Americas: Why Donald Trump Still Has a Lot of Support 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Most people living in open societies are informed enough to perceive the cynicism and mendacity in Mr. Putin’s comparisons. Trump and Putin share a frightening worldview 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Was it a willful mendacity borne out of prejudice, or something else? Trump and the Conspiracists, at Home and Abroad 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Trump is a role model for antipathy, envy, calumny, mendacity, prevarication, stupidity in the face of challenge, not being prepared for his goal, and bullying. What Our Sons Are Learning From Donald Trump 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z And he’d offered a dazzling array of other reasons for disqualification: habitual mendacity, pathological narcissism, profound ignorance and an astonishing dearth of basic human empathy. It’s not the ‘locker-room’ talk. It’s the ‘lock her up’ talk. 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z The Republican Party’s candidate evidently disdains his credulous supporters who continue to swallow his mendacities. Trump’s rise reflects American conservatism’s decay 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z That mendacity has inspired some liberal agita about how the debate moderators should handle Trump’s penchant to lie more barefacedly than the average politician. The cold, boring truth: Hillary Clinton will win 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z Set in the early 1950s, this toxic tale of madness, mendacity, perversity and revenge is a manic, ultimately wearying pastiche of that era’s cinematic genres. Kate Winslet stars in the stylish but nasty and uneven ‘The Dressmaker’ 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z But as New York Magazine's Ed Kligore put it, "Trump's mendacity is categorically different: It's unapologetic, unrelenting, and historic in its scale." Lies and the Lying Liar Who Tells Them 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Occasionally, an individual, by producing a great volume of mendacity, manages to occupy both categories. The Model for Donald Trump’s Media Relations Is Joseph McCarthy 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Here was Trump, once again, engaging in an act of shameless compulsive mendacity: Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is not the wellspring of the birther conspiracy theory. Trump’s attack on Black America: Birtherism was always about more than Obama’s birth certificate 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z In an age of pervasive mendacity and massive criminality my dear brother Edward Snowden exemplifies courage and integrity. 'Edward Snowden did this country a great service. Let him come home' 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z By which I mean, the idea that we might learn to shrug off his epic coarseness, brazen mendacity, appalling ignorance, enormous narcissism and utter incompetence. I am tired of eating at the Donald Trump buffet 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z Tammany was not just an institution, synonymous with the Democratic machine in New York City; with patronage, self-dealing, mendacity and corruption. Tammany Hall’s Auditorium, Where Politics Once Took Center Stage, Will Be Demolished 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z Instead we have Trump, whose baseline level of racism, xenophobia and mendacity has dulled the outrage attendant to his regular offensive and/or insane utterances, electronic or otherwise. Star of Outrage 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z She is one of the most credentialed presidential candidates in history; he is a preposterous pumpkin-hued caricature of mendacity and misogyny. 'Empowerment' Is Warping Women's View of Real Power 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z The mendacity with which a section of the press fanned those flames was nauseating. After this vote the UK is diminished, our politics poisoned | Gary Younge 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z In the rhetoric of Donald Trump, mendacity and cynicism compete for equal time. Donald Trump’s Exploitation of Orlando 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z The chief topic of the test is, naturally, Donald Trump and his well-known brand of whiny-diaper-baby tantrums coupled with his fatuous bullying and packaged in obvious mendacity. 4 ways the press can fight back against Trump: He’s declared war against the media — they can’t let him win 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z His petty battle with Gawker only serves to highlight the complete and utter mendacity of Celebrity Culture. I Stand With Gawker 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z “A lot of shows treat villainy or mendacity as a monstrous thing,” Robert King says. Goodbye to 'The Good Wife': She stood by her man, then stood tall 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Not content to rest on his laurels, he recently provided superfluous proof of his supremacy in mendacity. No, Trump, most dangerous place in the world is not Ferguson 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z The problem with all this recognition of Trump’s mendacity is just how little difference it seems to make—and how clueless the press itself remains regarding what to do about it. Donald Trump gets away with every lie: Ronald Reagan, Fox News and how the right slowly gutted the truth 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z "The beautiful thing is women don't like her," Trump smugly announced in closing his victory speech Tuesday night, a reminder of either his chronic mendacity or utter lack of self-awareness. Clinton's Trump 'Card' 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Slate's Seth Stevenson embedded with the Trump traveling press corps for a week and described a group seemingly being worn down by the mendacity. Make the Media Great Again 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z I hate the cultural inflation that happens around certain writers, certain books; even if it’s born of timidity, a wimpish unwillingness to strike out, I regard it as a form of mendacity. What is the point of critics? 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z A downbeat air of menace and mendacity suffuses “Triple 9,” in which a stellar cast and taut pacing lend only modest interest to what might otherwise have been a thoroughly disposable urban thriller. An appealing Casey Affleck plays one of Atlanta’s finest in ‘Triple 9’ 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z And it means you cut radically against the grain, because we live in an age of monstrous mendacity.” He cries for Americans alone: Our wars and violence destroy families — those kids deserve Obama’s tears too 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z It’s a terrible crime, but we are giving a special award for statistical mendacity to the many politicians and organizations who have recited dubious facts about it. The biggest Pinocchios of 2015 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z True, the media played their part in overlooking and ignoring this prima facie evidence of mendacity and political expediency. Skip the investigations, win the election 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z We have seen how mendacity, fear and bigotry could be galvanised to dictate an agenda based on misinformation and prejudice. The turmoil of today's world: leading writers respond to the refugee crisis 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z No one advocates for mob mentality, but when gauging mendacity, it is apparently wise to compare notes. Groups of People Spot Lies More Often Than Individuals Do 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z Obama is quite skilled in this area — in the field of what West dubbed “monstrous mendacity.” He cries for Americans alone: Our wars and violence destroy families — those kids deserve Obama’s tears too 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Blatant mendacity, Stewart warned during his farewell broadcast, has become ubiquitous. Now that Jon Stewart has stepped down, does anyone have his edge? 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z Two-and-a-half thousand years is a long time, but modern Greeks understand the absurdity, and the mendacity, of the political world better than most. A Point of View: Why the row between Greece and Germany is like a lovers' tiff - BBC News 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z This is, of course, political mendacity of the highest order. Greek Debt Deal: Let's Lie About The Debt Instead Of Having A Debt Reduction 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z My third reason for voting against the war was based on a similar revulsion to mendacity. Read Full Text of Lincoln Chafee Campaign Launch 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Caplan writes: “What happens if fully rational politicians compete for the support of irrational voters — specifically, voters with irrational beliefs about the effects of various policies? It is a recipe for mendacity.” Economists Actually Agree on This: The Wisdom of Free Trade 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Cruz also is seeking to establish an ideological distance between his likely campaign and Washington DC, which he impugned for its “mendacity.” Ted Cruz Stresses Conservative Cred At CPAC 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z In reality, that’s not even remotely accurate, but I found it interesting that Perry thought this was a claim worthy of mendacity. Monday's Campaign Round-Up, 2.9.15 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z Naturally, Fox did not question this outrageous assertion — in fact, it repeated it throughout the week — and most of us, long ago benumbed by the network’s serial mendacities, did not challenge Fox. Why serious people discount Fox News 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Given its decades-long record of mendacity, it’s a wonder anyone believes the denials and obfuscations of current and former CIA officials. New England editorial roundup 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z It was a clear, indeed enthusiastic, admission to an academic conference of the mendacity underlying Obamacare. The Gruber Confession Though typically dismissed as a destructive mix of mendacity and nonsense, they often reflect societal fears. The Ebola Conspiracy Theories 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z It lies habitually, with a formidable record of mendacity from previous conflicts. Hamas Lies About the Gaza Civilian Death Toll – And the Media Bought It 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z The star for mendacity goes to Russian TV. Is western media coverage of the Ukraine crisis anti-Russian? 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z There is no doubt a stain of mendacity on Rose that never fell on Bias. Len Bias, like Pete Rose, shouldn’t be in a Hall of Fame It would be difficult, even if intended and planned, to cram more hubris, incompetence and mendacity into a humane and sympathetic act. The Bergdahl mess "It's always valuable to revisit the smarminess, ruthlessness, mendacity and corruption of Bill Clinton, a guy who is paraded around as the paternal voice of the Democratic Party," he writes. Will Lewinsky sink Hillary Clinton? 2014-05-08T16:58:39Z What the titles lack in wit they sometimes make up for in mendacity. Sidebar: Laws Deserve More Than Cute Names 2013-12-30T14:05:27Z The game is set where opacity and mendacity are celebrated. Can Machine Learning Fix a Broken Patent System? 2013-12-19T00:45:00.562Z But he seems inclined to credit the conclusions of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, which found rampant incompetence, mendacity and fraud. Judge Raises Questions on the Paltry Effort to Prosecute Wall Street Executives 2013-12-16T16:36:58Z If Mr Yanukovych’s mendacity in the run-up to Vilnius is any guide, dealing with Ukraine afterwards will only get harder. Charlemagne: Playing East against West 2013-11-21T16:03:54Z He launches into a disquisition on the falsity of media attention and the mendacity of image-creation that ends with a concession: Feherty never anticipated how long Woods would take to regain form. Scorecard From The Edge 2013-02-12T05:00:00Z Even amid the widespread mendacity and willful collective ignorance of our celebrity-centric culture, I have to admit I find the Armstrong story both shocking and depressing. Why do we care if Lance apologizes? 2013-01-20T20:00:00Z My fear is that both sides are engaged in an excess of wishful thinking, with a dash of mendacity. Economic View: Too Much Wishful Thinking on Middle-Class Tax Rates 2012-12-29T19:36:58Z As for the remaining 10%, most of them are too busy and exhausted to spend the time differentiating between the relative qualitative and quantitative levels of mendacity. Why Deceit Is Everywhere in the 2012 U.S. Election Campaign 2012-08-10T11:20:37Z As Romney was speaking to the annual gathering of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, charging Obama with weakness, betrayal and mendacity, NBC News and the Wall Street Journal released a new poll. Romney's Foreign Policy Suffers from Launch Failure 2012-07-26T14:05:20Z Maldonado’s map of the Strait of Anian of 1609 is manifestly manufactured to suit the occasion, and is interesting only as showing how far mendacity and gullibility could travel hand in hand. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z We ought to be on our guard against every kind of trickery, and make a scrupulous investigation in order to forestall mendacity or fraud. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z Augustus Postlethwaite Tompkinson.—Editor of The Thorough Blue Whole Team—a paper characterized by its mendacity, its ferocity, and utter disregard of the feelings of the purest New Lights in the nation. Quodlibet 2012-03-26T02:00:29.820Z Truth is a nice thing in theory, but the practice of it in our sinful sphere too often leads to complications which would be avoided by appropriate mendacity. The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z Certainly murder is a greater crime than mendacity. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z The mendacity of superstition is almost enough to make a man believe in the supernatural. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z It must be admitted that miracles are the children of mendacity, and that nothing can be more wonderful than the majestic, unbroken, sublime, and eternal procession of causes and effects. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 2 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:51.557Z He found pretence and mendacity crowned by credulity. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z From a nation dull but honest, rude but sincere and kindly, it has been transformed by bad leadership and sudden prosperity into a people whose dominant characteristics are brutality and mendacity. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z If God made the world it was a most stupendous miracle, and all miracles, according to Mr. Ingersoll's idea are "the children of mendacity." The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z If anyone had ever felt the piercing storms of life, the treachery of his species, and the mendacity of the illusions that surround us, Longcluse was that man. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z In ten minutes he completed the following and the dragoman took it away with him, highly pleased:— To Whom It May Concern—Greeting:—The bearer, Mahmoud, is a dragoman of monumental mendacity and commercial Machiavellism. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z All these stories rest upon the same foundation—the mendacity of priests. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z It not only promotes, it inculcates, distinct mendacity and deceitfulness. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z Accordingly Mr. Ingersoll abolishes creation first, and thus clears the way to his dogmatic conclusion that all miracles are "the children of mendacity." The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z "Not at all; not the least in the world; I've never seen you more composed," returned Mrs. Diggs, with enormous mendacity, hoping that her charitable lie would bear reassuring and tranquilizing results. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z "Of course, I didn't really think she was my aunt," he said, with the easy mendacity of childhood. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z These "divine" governments rest on the fear and ignorance of the many, the cunning, the impudence and the mendacity of the few. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z I never had any love affairs before," he replied with a ready masculine mendacity, "at least none worth mentioning. The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado 2011-09-22T02:00:25.630Z That of La Hontan betrays the enormous mendacity of the writer, who, so long as he could be amusing and sensational, was absolutely indifferent as to facts. Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 2011-09-09T02:01:02.147Z This may result from corruption or mendacity, rigidity of thought, simple error or ignorance. Economix Blog: Bruce Bartlett: Should Democrats Play by Republican Rules? 2011-09-06T10:00:25Z To which the father replied with the popular mendacity which is taught in all American histories, "Of course, Americans have never been defeated." Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z But if they did not steal it, if the moral glories of Christianity are not sprung from deliberate mendacity, why was the body not produced, to abash the wild dreams of their fanaticism? The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z Merton, who was an old bachelor, was really delighted at the idea, but with true professional mendacity made an immense virtue of the sacrifice of time it entailed. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z There is a more alarming appearance of mendacity when the child comes to the use of language and proffers statements which, if he reflected, he might know to be false. Children's Ways 2011-08-11T02:00:16.473Z In an impressive display of mendacity, Boehner told the American people the president wants "a blank check" to keep on spending, and the House GOP is serving "the American people" by resisting. Obama fights full-tilt Tea Party crazy 2011-07-26T04:01:00Z He pursued mendacity with an ardour which few persons have manifested in the quest of truth. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z “I noticed you on board the Mont Blanc this afternoon,” said Phil to the old General, with magnificent mendacity—the fact being that he was unaware of that veteran’s very existence. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z “Do you know, nothing but my unblushing mendacity kept that seedy Dutchman from inflicting himself upon our ride?” remarked Claverton, when they had started; and he told her of his little subterfuge. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z "Oh, I got an engagement with some friends of mine," she said with spontaneous mendacity. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z What capital both the Ilians and the people of Pergamum made out of these bold mendacities, is well known. Problems in Greek history 2011-06-09T02:00:18.427Z Why," said Gabriel with cheerful mendacity, "she's been takin' a shine to ye o' late. Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z "Every stalk is hanging in the barn, else I could not have gotten off today," he told her in pleasant mendacity. The Tobacco Tiller A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields 2011-06-01T02:00:27.327Z “But I promise you I won’t indulge in mendacity any more than I can help.” The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z "And," Joan drove her argument shrewdly home with unblushing mendacity—"Tom Wilbrow says it's only a question of time before I can get any figure I want to ask, in reason." Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z From the first his manner had been evasive almost to mendacity, and, with both Dixie and her mother, he had made a mystery of his past. Bat Wing Bowles 2011-05-20T02:00:33.310Z But let no one dream that there is here either madness or mendacity: the heart or sense thus hidden away is sound enough for a mystic. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z The inability to distinguish between desires and facts produces seeming mendacity. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z How would society get on without its mendacities?” The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z My powers of mendacity were improving; but her relief at holding the book again in her hand was so great that she would probably have believed anything. The Siege of the Seven Suitors 2011-04-25T02:00:08.730Z Her mendacity, like George Wither's muse, As it made wing, so it made power. A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:28.240Z Sincerity and plain dealing at least are virtues not to be thrown over; Blake indeed could not conceive an impulse to mendacity, a tortuous habit of mind, a soul born crooked. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z "I mean, some of them dress uncommon badly," he says, with much mendacity and more bad grammar. Mrs. Geoffrey 2011-02-27T03:00:29.460Z Before leaving this branch of our subject, especial reference should be made to one item more conspicuous, perhaps, than any other, among those comprised in the general charge of fishermen’s mendacity. Fishing and Shooting Sketches 2011-02-23T03:00:33.463Z How difficult it is to keep out of the battle on the one side bitterness, mendacity, malice; on the other side brutality, derision, violence! Socialism and the Social Movement in the 19th Century 2011-02-09T03:00:48.103Z It adds color to the fraudulent actions, regulatory missteps and Wall Street mendacity that we’ve long known about. Talking Business: We Got Details, but We Needed a Bottom Line 2011-01-28T23:33:25Z He is welcome to any satisfaction that the preparation for mendacity may afford an atrophic conscience and a mental attitude that is foreign to honourable diplomacy. A Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell 2011-01-27T03:00:42.663Z Polite mendacity and inward bitterness on my part towards the individual who has converted the compartment into an oven. Mr. Punch's Railway Book 2011-01-23T03:00:16.120Z It is sometimes said that there is such close relationship between mendacity and fishing, that in matters connected with their craft all fishermen are untruthful. Fishing and Shooting Sketches 2011-02-23T03:00:33.463Z I was praying Heaven to inspire me with mendacity. The Professor's Mystery 2011-01-18T03:00:11.317Z But the trial that is scheduled to begin on Monday in federal court in El Paso will go far beyond questions of Mr. Posada’s mendacity under oath. Terror Accusations, but Perjury Charges 2011-01-10T01:46:03Z On his website, Cuccinelli says the science and data that contributed to the EPA’s ruling on the harm caused by greenhouse gases aren’t “simply unreliable, but involve enough mendacity to warrant the label ‘Climategate.’” Health Law Challenged by Cuccinelli Channeling Patrick Henry 2010-12-27T19:04:01Z He threw all his influence against the women, described their story as a fabrication, and the Social and Political Union as "a copious fountain of mendacity." A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z Yet for all her mendacity she could not resist showing the clip of her latest scene, which she had on her mobile, to her fellow policewomen. | Afghanistan: Studio Kabul 2010-10-22T23:15:00Z Alter objected to the title of Hodge's book because "accusing other liberals of mendacity is destructive to the liberal project in America." Debating the "mendacity" of Barack Obama 2010-10-06T16:22:00Z But “Proofiness” reveals the truly corrosive effects on a society awash in numerical mendacity. Fibbing With Numbers 2010-09-18T07:31:00Z To conservatives, it is a pulling back of the curtain to expose the media's mendacity. Getting the message on Journolist's controversial postings 2010-07-23T04:00:00Z Once you set aside this questionable presumption of mendacity among the young, there are actually plenty of practical reasons why not. Your Money: A Move to Ease Student Debt Burden 2010-06-04T22:41:00Z Once again, protesters jumbled the letters of Mr. Blair’s name to form a blunt accusation of mendacity. 2010-02-06T03:20:00Z "I don't reckon anything about it," replied Peckover with wise mendacity. A Poached Peerage "I enjoyed your remarks very much indeed, Brother Burnham," said Reverend Fullerton, with a mendacity for which no doubt the recording angel dropped a suitable tear. The Broken Gate A Novel No woman likes to be accused of mendacity monosyllabically. H. R. "I was just asking what time I shall reach Denver, going in by way of the main line and Cheyenne," said Ballard, with cheerful mendacity. The King of Arcadia "I was called over here on important business," he replied, with unblushing mendacity; and as he said it he watched her face, and found it more troubled than he had ever yet seen it. The Red Rat's Daughter The world of the innocents abroad is a touching and unsophisticated place, and its very atmosphere urges the Anglo-Indian unconsciously to an extravagant mendacity. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel To the improvident, however, to the lazy, to the genteel beggar, and to the thousand and one forms mendicity—supported by mendacity—takes to extort money, Allan was as adamant. Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series But Merely Mary Ann is too true in its homely fashion to fob us off with lies at the end; we believed it at first and so are shocked at its mendacity. How to See a Play They exhibit evil traits, anger, resentment, mendacity; they are often intensely selfish, are strongly acquisitive, greedy of gain, ready to steal and secrete things at the first opportunity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" I wished then for a full knowledge of their tongue, that I might soften the tidings, but I could not bring myself to the mendacity of promising a return, though they pleaded. The Portal of Dreams The mendacity of these old legend-makers is equaled only by their fertility of imagination. The Pearl of India Theft would be more possible for me than falsehood, for while both are labelled ‘wicked,’ I could never dwarf and shrivel my soul by the cowardly process of mendacity. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part Her eyelids dropped, and he saw mendacity in her eyes' furtive fleeing under cover. The Immortal Moment The Story of Kitty Tailleur ‘Yes,’ I unhesitatingly and with prompt mendacity replied, ‘that is exactly it, and I don’t see how you hit it so cleverly.’ Railway Adventures and Anecdotes extending over more than fifty years I do know that no available mendacity occurred to my shocked brain and I found myself murmuring an acceptance. The Portal of Dreams Grover had no genius for mendacity and he was already beginning to repent of his daring fiction. Stories by American Authors, Volume 10 The weakness of the Persian for mendacity is proverbial. Across Asia on a Bicycle It would confuse issues and make it more difficult to convict him of mendacity. When Ghost Meets Ghost Even the children had caught this habit of monstrous mendacity. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. With characteristic mendacity, the duke spread the report that the prisoner had died a natural death. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 All a man needs in order to win any woman is a little audacity, a little mendacity and plenty of pertinacity. A Guide to Men Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl It is easy enough to impose on an ignorant congregation, and Dr. Hitchens is probably aware of the lengths to which a reckless pulpiteer may carry his mendacity. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Professor Dicey has complained of the 'official mendacity' involved in the statement. The Fathers of Confederation A Chronicle of the Birth of the Dominion They seemed to have silently agreed to bury the futile mendacity of the earlier afternoon in everlasting forgetfulness. A Great Man A Frolic The peripatetic patriots who invade the rural communities seem to be easy, extemporaneous liars, having a natural gift for tergiversation, an undeniable gift for mendacity, an inexhaustible fertility of invention. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule “Over in their yard,” he responded, with prompt mendacity. The Crevice Yes, only an atheist and anarchist is capable of such villainous mendacity, such unutterable wickedness and treachery. The Book of Khalid The secrecy which had shrouded the proceedings of the delegates at first was turned to account by their opponents, who set in motion a campaign of mendacity and misrepresentation. The Fathers of Confederation A Chronicle of the Birth of the Dominion I can’t bear to have you study me as if I were a specimen of something—of mendacity, you think. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 Seybert commission having made a splendid failure to find interesting and valuable facts where other investigators have succeeded, their blundering ignorance is now assisted by newspaper mendacity. Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 Volume 1, Number 9 The permission to use them is a 'mendacity licence.' The English Utilitarians, Volume I. But there must be in such minds a conscious mendacity, fatal to their own self-respect, and in the highest degree detrimental to their moral selfhood. A Manual of Moral Philosophy And Harry had the mendacity to assure her that this was a favorite habit of mine. Lorimer of the Northwest He might have obtained hope of life by betraying the mendacity of his accomplices, and the imbecility of his dupes. Lectures on the French Revolution But they forgave him all his mendacity for the sake of a new accomplishment he had brought back with him, and which beat all his others. The Martian It's a flowery lie, it's a speaking mendacity.' Stories of Authors, British and American Never in my life have I read of, much less experienced, such a carnival of mendacity as that which accompanied the pro-Boer agitation in this Colony at the end of last year. Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 The mendacity is obvious: Among the unfortunate Lamson-Service stockholders were numbered several aggressive people of the old-fashioned kind, who resented Mr. Lawson's peculiar way of doing things. Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated Twenty years' exile would be a worthy punishment for such mendacity! The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura "She admires you," he said, with courageous mendacity. The Pretty Sister Of José 1889 Here the author’s etymology is at fault, as the word “mendacity” comes from “mentior,” to lie; which is not likely to have been derived from “menda.” The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes There has, I sometimes think, been an exceptional display of mendacity at my expense. Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 There is, so far as I can see, no theoretical criterion by which the patient can decide, in such a case, between the two equally satisfactory hypotheses of his madness and of his friends' mendacity. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays If so, the opportunity afforded you for mendacity has been lost you, thanks to a certain habit of mine which comes in most opportunely. The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura Thus embarked upon his career of mendacity the artist in Tam compelled him to complete the picture. Tam o' the Scoots Because Falsehood was blemished in having no feet, she was called “mendacium” or “mendacity.” The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes We know the judgment formed in advance by him and his colleagues on the mendacity of Ralegh's account of the motive of his enterprise. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography With characteristic mendacity Lebrun afterwards informed the Convention that Maret was a secret agent and that Pitt had requested an interview with him. William Pitt and the Great War As to my hair, which they with unblushing mendacity declare I have allowed to grow long as an enhancement to my personal attractions, you can judge of its elegance and beauty. The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura It is, moreover, a state perfectly compatible with extreme intellectual subtlety and a capacity for devising hypotheses which only require the hardihood engendered by strong conviction, or by callous mendacity, to render them impregnable. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 "Because he loved her," replies the young man, with unblushing mendacity. Floyd Grandon's Honor He ridiculed the transparent mendacity of Stukely's story of a promise of £10,000; for 'if I had £1000, I could have made my peace better with it than by giving it to Stukely.' Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography She was ready to cry out against the man for such malignity—mendacity; and then her cooler judgment and common sense began to reassert themselves. A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike Mr. O'Brien states that "the truckling truculence of a mock-modest monster of meretricious mendacity cannot be allowed to prevail against a policy of sober and sympathetic silence." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914 Of an effrontery while danger was remote equaled by helplessness when it was present, and mendacity after it had passed, the annals of despotism scarce afford an example of the elevation of such a favorite. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War If she is a little struck at Eugene's way of confessing to his sweetheart, she does not betray any suspicion of mendacity. Floyd Grandon's Honor As he had no intention, however, of being buried beneath the wreckage of his endeavors, he sought to prop the weakening fabric of invention and mendacity by new shuffling or pretense. Under the Rose Gray, wise, crafty, sly, soft, one who carries mendacity to the heights of art, President Smith gives in all he says and does and looks the color of truth to this explanation of his frankness. The Mormon Menace The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite Nothing is more revolting, but nothing is more characteristic of the Queen, than her shameless mendacity. History of the English People, Volume IV But, for that matter, many a man has been first made a liar by his connection with two women; and by degrees has carried his mendacity into other things. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 "Gone to Europe," says Eugene, with charming mendacity. Floyd Grandon's Honor His eyes are greedy and his fingers are long, but the peace of a superior mendacity is on his brow, and in his heart the lawful price of goods is multiplied exceedingly. Paul Patoff Then the Mormons made mendacity take the place of murder, and went about to do by indirection what before they had approached direct. The Mormon Menace The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite After all, no man can be sure that it is required of him to save society; every man can be sure that he is called upon to keep himself clean from mendacity and equivoke. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot However, though now blessed with mendacity, he was cursed with a lack of invention; and sorely puzzled how to live at Hernshaw, yet visit the "Packhorse." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 The only effect was a new chapter of French mendacity and insolence, furthering America's wish and preparations for war. History of the United States, Volume 2 They are at least a million times more respectable than the mendacities of the publisher's tout, or the mutual ecstasies of the rollers of logs and the grinders of axes. My Contemporaries In Fiction Nothing is more revolting in the Queen, but nothing is more characteristic, than her shameless mendacity. Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries "Picture show!" said Zoe, with composed mendacity, glancing at the aristocratic chaperon. The Sins of Séverac Bablon Again he lied, and something in the frank eyes which were raised to his made him ashamed of his mendacity. Afterwards I assented, with just the shade of irony necessary to rob the assertion of its mendacity. That Affair Next Door Let us, however, put aside for the moment the mendacities and forgeries which complicate the question of Lucifer, and let us approach Palladism from an altogether different side. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer It was useless to recall her duplicities, her mendacities, her hypocrisies, her meannesses. Clayhanger “My, what big ’tory!” exclaimed the cook in apparent amazement at Jake’s mendacity. The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea That, and his career of mendacity, would start at breakfast. The Cosmic Computer In other words, servility counted, platitude examined, trickery checked, forgery added, venality certified, and mendacity proclaimed. Napoleon the Little He finds that the system of advertising which plays so large a part in modern life, and without which it is so hard to "succeed," is in the main a system of organised mendacity. What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular His mendacity in short amounts to a monomania. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) We do not ascribe the unfairness to intentional mendacity. An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals Indeed, the Mirror's interviews and editorials were both full of brilliant mendacity just now. Under Fire Mr O'Connell died; all was finished: and a new form of mendacity was transferred to America. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg From my minority, I profess the mendacity, Passed days in poverty, From my minority. A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions In the days that followed, the double pursuit continued with the same tortures, or worse, and with the same odious mendacity. The Child of Pleasure The liar is no whit better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander, he may be worse than most thieves. Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform For eighteen long years he retained the power, which he had acquired through perjury and violence, by pandering to the baser passions of his subjects, and by an organized system of fraud, mendacity, and espionnage. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris He might have dwelt on the unsupported testimony of the only witness, the unscrupulous Procopius, whom Gibbon himself convicts on another subject of flagrant mendacity. Gibbon It was not the first time this subject had come up between them, but hitherto he had denied with urbane mendacity the ill results of his favourite indulgences. The Mayor of Warwick In his new homes Kaspar lied terribly, was angry when detected, and wounded himself—he said accidentally—with a pistol, after being reproached for shirking the Commentaries of Julius Cæsar, and for mendacity. Historical Mysteries "I 'm from Police Headquarters," the man on the doorstep explained, with the easy mendacity that was a heritage of his older days. Never-Fail Blake Shut up with the Parisians in Paris, I cannot help feeling a good deal of sympathy for them, notwithstanding their childish vanity, their mendacity, and their frivolity. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris It was his practice to clothe things most revolting with an assumed grace and dignity, and to add to the weight of his condemnation by the astounding mendacity of the parody thus drawn. Thackeray Truth was a pearl, and Mr. Harley felt strongly against casting it before the swine of every common occurrence, when mendacity would do as well or better. The President A novel Whatever subterfuge, equivocation or other crooked proceeding be resorted to, if mendacity in any form is a feature of the aspersions we cast upon the neighbor, we sin by calumny, purely and simply. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals We are suffering from the uncommon want of clearness and uncleanliness of human things; from the ingenious mendacity which Christianity has brought among men. We Philologists Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 8 In unblushing mendacity they have equalled, if not surpassed, their immediate predecessor, the virtuous Palikao. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris De Grammont, with his native tact and unscrupulous mendacity, played his part to perfection; but his comrade, Matta, committed a hundred solecisms. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 There, for eight years, he lived in the midst of all that treason and mendacity and cowardice and rapacity and dishonor which as raw materials are ground together to produce laws for a commonwealth. The President A novel But when deception is the effect of mendacity, it assumes a character of malice that deserves the reprobation of man as it is condemned by God. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals The immense seriousness, not to say solicitude, with which these inquiries were addressed to me eventually led me into the most enterprising mendacities. Leaves from a Field Note-Book I will say for the Government of to-day, that in any attempt to beat its predecessor in mendacity it had a hard task, but it has worked with a will, and completely succeeded. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris Yes," said Edith, having smiled at her sister-in-law with magnificent mendacity, "you may well look at me. The Helpmate While she listened to his purring mendacities she must struggle to refrain from casting his untruths in his teeth. The President A novel It is not the philosopher who first hints at the mendacity of memory, but the "plain man" who takes careful note of what really happens in the world of his personal experience. Illusions A Psychological Study On the other hand, if you choose the other horn, you must accept either the hypothesis of the ignorance or that of the mendacity of Christ.' Thoughts on Religion The Republic, like the Empire, has made mendacity the great system of government. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris And then, in spite of all that he said about the mendacity of Castle Quin, he did believe the little history. An Eye for an Eye Until Aldus, an eminent scholar and honest publisher,6 is proved guilty, we should assume him innocent of mendacity or naïve ignorance. A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York All law in Ireland is a grave temptation to lying, and the greatest number of Courts produced a stupendous amount of mendacity—or it was so in earlier times, at all events. The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent To the charge of deliberate mendacity he had no specific clue, not knowing that Kathleen Pierce had denied the authenticity of the interview. The Clarion And she exaggerated everything with that morbid mendacity of the confessional. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes Luther is charged with mendacity, that is, he is said to have lied. Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation Where mendacity, treachery, obscenity, and malignity find unhampered expression, talk can be brilliant indeed. Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals There is a copious mendacity about that effusion which makes me think the real mission of the writer should have been to become an Irish Member of Parliament. The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent Ammunition for this campaign was readily found in the imputations, innuendoes, charges, mendacities of the Labor and pacifist extremists of Great Britain and France; they lost none of their malignancy in the retelling. Laurier: A Study in Canadian Politics "And if one is mean on New Year's Day," returned Madame Valière, with a shade less of mendacity. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes The Russian truth-loving national soul, sensitive of any display of mendacity or insincerity, was able to sift the chaff from the wheat, and faith in our friends is unshaken. New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915 Oxford, the home of so many other lost causes, apparently aspires to be also the home of the lost cause of mendacity. The Open Secret of Ireland And then, as though to ease her conscience for this mild mendacity, he added: "I believe I did have an engagement over there at nine." A Hoosier Chronicle To defend Froude against mendacity seems like an insult to his memory, for if he loved anything it was truth, though he sometimes spoke in a cynical way about the difficulty of attaining it. The Life of Froude I pondered for a moment over the picturesque quality of the major's mendacity. A Gentleman Vagabond and Some Others This mendacity had the desired effect, and both officers and crews accepted the terms offered; so that San Martin's agents had thus tricked the Chilian squadron out of its prizes. Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru and Brazil, from Spanish and Portuguese Domination, Volume 1 This second role completes the dedication of the invaders on the altar of mendacity. The Open Secret of Ireland Next to their lack of industry, their most conspicuous quality is their incurable mendacity. Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia Their Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment One of the latest writers—the author of "The Middle Kingdom"—accuses the Chinese of gross sensuality, mendacity, and dishonesty. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology I am convinced that the discoverer of mendacity was a warm-hearted philanthropist, who has never received due credit, and that the devil having seized hold of his discovery perverted it to his own diabolical uses. Jaffery It was Weary that afternoon on dayherd who indulged his mendacity for the benefit of Pink; and his remarks were but paving-stones for a scheme hatched overnight by the Happy Family. The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories Hell seemed yawning for her, and the possibility of any ultimate happiness, reached over this awful road of mendacity and deceit, was more than her imagination could picture. Children of the Mist The mendacity of some of its leaders is shameless and sickening, and still more sickening is the complete indifference with which this mendacity is regarded in Ireland.” Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888) |
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