mental reservation

"No one tells the truth without mental reservations of some kind."

The risk was a calculated one, and he took it with no mental reservations.

When a man makes a sweeping statement, he often has mental reservations.

In this belief he accepted her, but not without some mental reservations.

At the time I saw nothing hypocritical in the mental reservation.

"I understand the Captain's order and will comply exactly with no mental reservations."

It is obvious that there are some mental reservations and discrimination in this House.

The rest nodded, each making his own mental reservation on how best to get the lion's share.

I had a reservation for the 12 o'clock tour, and mental reservations as well.

The operation is entirely too intricate to approach with mental reservations.

"I suppose so, but I still have those mental reservations."

At that moment I had thrown all my mental reservations against the unknown overboard.

Plastics I might concede without argument but with mental reservations.

Mental reservations and artful mysteries grew out of these things.

I never can bring myself to believe that my sovereign- he who passed his word to me- did so with a mental reservation."

"You have," I answered in a heavy voice, and with the gravest mental reservations.

You would never know his secret mental reservations or the unspoken redefinition of words.

"There is no danger," he said, and added a mental reservation, "to you."

Like Henry, but with less mental reservation, he ended one day by divulging a secret.

This was theorized by casuists as the doctrine of mental reservation.

"I was," Miri said, allowing him the mode, though not without a few mental reservations.

In fact, I'd made a mental reservation and added on, but not at the price of Jane dying'.

The Security Chief had mental reservations in this regard.

Mental reservation is a form of deception which is not an outright lie.

He was for Corrie, but with mental reservations.