common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable.
The most deceptive course in football is straight at the goalposts.
Do not be misled by appearances for these are apt to be deceptive.
The permanent campaign is inherently deceptive.
Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.
Obama has demonstrated no desire to make tough choices. Americans demand a more efficient, effective government, but his budget calls for more taxes and more spending. It employs deceptive accounting gimmicks but does nothing to tackle long-term entitlement problems, nothing to save Medicare or fix Social Security.
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
Few things are more deceptive than memories.
There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
Pictures can be pretty deceptive.
Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption.
Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.
This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.
Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.
Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies.
Vodka is a very deceptive drink. You can't taste it, you can't smell it.
Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.
As usual she had a deceptive air of perspicacity.