Senior civil servants have poured honeyed words into her ear.
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Facebook keeps assuring us it takes its role in our media landscape and cultural commons seriously, but its actions rarely seem to match those honeyed words.
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This is backed by honeyed words about unifying a family sundered for 70 years, since China's civil war ended with the losing Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang (KMT) retreating to what they hoped would be temporary exile on Taiwan.
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Every social occasion had a dessert associated with it: When infants were born, their mouths were smeared with syrup to assure a future filled with honeyed words; funerals brought puddinglike flour or semolina helva, as they still do today.
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"When you hear honeyed words from [President Hassan] Rouhani's government [in Iran], we see the aggressive actions of its Revolutionary Guard," says a Saudi official, alleging Iranian-inspired terrorist plots in Kuwait and Bahrain and lamenting Iran's meddling in Yemen.
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Bernie SandersBernie SandersBiden assures supporters the primary is still 'wide open' in lengthy phone call: report Limbaugh on Buttigieg: 'America's still not ready to elect a gay guy kissing his husband on the debate stage' CNN announces Democratic town halls in Nevada MORE (I-Vt.), apparently wooed by his honeyed words and fables about free health care and student loan forgiveness, young British Remainers believe that good things come from socialism and from Europe.
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She also warns the women against the lies of slanderers, saying, "Drive back these treacherous liars who use nothing but tricks and honeyed words to steal from you that which you should keep safe above all else: your chastity and your glorious good name".
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Robert L. Kunzig, chief counsel for the committee, asked "Was deceit a major policy of Communist propaganda and activity?" Manning R. Johnson answered, "Yes, it was. They made fine gestures and honeyed words to the church people which could be well likened unto the song of the fabled sea nymphs luring millions to moral decay, spiritual death, and spiritual slavery...".Quoted in Treason in the Church: Trading Truth for a "Social Gospel" (www.crossroad.to).
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Although he did not participate directly in the protests himself, he often went out in the streets to observe the protestors in action, and kept extensive clippings of newspaper coverage of the protests. In June 1960, at the climax of the protest movement, Mishima wrote a commentary in the Mainichi Shinbun newspaper, entitled "A Political Opinion". In the critical essay, he pointed out the deceptions that the Zengakuren, the Socialist Party, and the Communist Party all used under the banner of "Democracy". He warned that the dangers of the Japanese people choosing an idealistic leader who tells lies is more dangerous than Mr. Nobusuke Kishi who is a "small nihilist" (Mishima called him so), being subordinating to the United States, and Mishima said in conclusion that he wanted to vote for a sturdy and realist person without using any honeyed words.
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In April 1519 Hernán Cortés, a ruthlessly ambitious nobleman recently landed in Cuba, and the leader of the third Spanish expedition to the coast of Mexico, landed as directed by the survivors of the previous two expeditions at San Juan de Ulúa, a good harbour on Mexico's east coast, with 508 soldiers, 100 sailors, and 14 small cannons. Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, the Governor of Cuba, called for Cortés to lead an expedition into Mexico after favourable reports from two previous expeditions to Yucatán caught the interest of the Spanish in Cuba.Conquistadors, with Michael Wood – website for 2001 PBS documentary Under the pressure of his relatives who had a different leader in mind, Velázquez regretted his decision and revoked Cortés' mandate to lead the expedition even before Cortés left Cuba. Thus Cortés had to fight for his survival as a leader while still in Cuba; twice messengers from Velázquez arrived to depose him, and twice they were spoken to with honeyed words and dissuaded from executing their mission.
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