| Hopelessly naive, Velma quickly learns to play the game, concocting ever more elaborate lies to fan the flames of her notoriety. |
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| I do not conclude that that delay undermines their credibility or supports the proposition that they are concocting a story. |
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| The 49-year-old gambleholic is always concocting some ludicrous get-rich-quick scheme. |
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| Officers working on Operation Impact have uncovered dozens of cases of people concocting stories of crime. |
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| I believe there was a much more serious attempt to pervert the course of justice by concocting a story that shifted the blame to Mr Whittle. |
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| In fact, I strongly suspect he's concocting a game of his own which involves knocking off family members one by one. |
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| He had denied using a false diary and concocting a bogus story in his defence of the Daily Star's claims. |
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| They fool the simple folk by concocting exciting stories about their receiving messages from the Jinn. |
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| Finkel is a US journalist who was fired from the New York Times in 2002 after concocting a story for that newspaper's magazine section. |
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| Neither of us could summon up the interest even to attempt concocting a cunning plan for our next assault on a region of France. |
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| In the spirit of pioneers, we're concocting our own remedies and salving our own wounds. |
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| While Kate was downstairs devising her little plot to surprise her parents, Cameron was upstairs concocting a plan of his own. |
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| Or concocting side dishes that deserve to accompany such wonderful beef, carried by waiters with focus and peripheral vision? |
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| This is just one more example of the Liberal way of ramming through distasteful legislation by concocting their own evidence. |
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| The founder and director of the festival, gambist Susie Napper, infuses this event with a festive air, concocting unusual and original programs. |
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| Every year until 1993, they were seen having fun concocting new experiments and conducting scientific research. |
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| Once and for all, he seized the opportunity of unlearning architecture by concocting an ephemeral town of Illusion. |
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| This kind of reasoning is, of course, nonsense, but it serves as an illustration of the danger in concocting fanciful theories based on historical precedents. |
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| We all live by concocting stories, myths, images of the world. |
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| He says that people concocting a story prepare a script that is tight and lacking in detail. |
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| The left brain, as Dr. Gazzaniga put it, is the confabulator, constantly concocting stories. |
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| Even then, DiPascali said, Madoff was concocting a trading strategy that he would describe to his customers in exotic terms. |
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| Rather than concocting sophisticated odes to misery, perhaps we might consider a different approach to urban growth. |
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| I now see that by the standards of modern American society, I do something comparable to concocting my own laundry detergent. |
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| Our minds are ingenious in concocting self-serving rationalizations. |
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| The Quebec-based cosmetic giant has definitely mastered the art of concocting unique, original elixirs that are both timeless and modern. |
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| So Mr Albanese has responded by concocting a third deal, with Chinalco, a largely state-owned Chinese aluminium firm. |
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| Omron Corporation, a Japanese developer of robotics software, is concocting a solution. |
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| They immediately gave me the idea of concocting a dish with them where they could be discovered cooked in different ways. |
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| Theresa has a broad vision for the Convention, as do I, and it was great concocting new ideas. |
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| You get home and the last thing on your mind is concocting a lavish meal for two or three or however many of your children deign to put in an appearance for this meal! |
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| Because of that ritual, Diane loves concocting pasta suppers. |
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| In the absence of anything more appealing just now, concocting distaff versions of some of the sport's more illustrious bouts from the past is reckoned to be good business. |
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| Indeed, agate admitted in an April 2007 letter that he had been concocting lies and spreading false information about Teddy. |
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| The internationalist machine calmly pursues its course, concocting a policy that will prove to be disastrous for the economic and social balance, as well as for peace in Europe. |
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| A thousand and more years of alchemy and innumerable experiments to make gold by concocting mixtures and potions of every conceivable type gave us the basis of modern chemistry. |
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| It is disgraceful to seek to justify the USA's increasing interventionism in the Middle East by concocting an atmosphere of a clash of civilisations. |
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| Given all that, why does the member think the Liberals and Conservatives are concocting this sellout of fundamental Canadian values, of Canadians' fundamental concerns for human rights? |
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| Watchdog groups say that companies are already eagerly exploiting gray areas in the law, either by concocting new charges or relabeling old, disallowed charges. |
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| He set frequently for the Listener between 1932 and 1948, concocting such exoticisms as Printer's Devilry, Playfair and Word Ladder. |
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| Fearing Saddam's wrath, lower echelon commanders routinely lied about force readiness, concocting elaborate ruses to mask poor equipment, supplies, training and morale. |
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| It is written down, it's not me concocting it. |
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| A typical day may find her meeting sales people, training and supervising staff, merchandising, concocting marketing strategies, handling customers, stocking shelves or working the cash register. |
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| Hardware or software, if there was one thing Morton did astoundingly well, it was concocting sock-knocking techno gizmo solutions to the most arcane problems. |
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| He's hysterical and disturbing as an ubernerdy chemistry professor who woos student Stella Stevens by concocting a potion that transforms him into a suave stud. |
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| Concocting an album using Internet chatrooms, he is not your archetypal, geeky net-head. |
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