dissemblance

She was getting more practiced at this sort of dissemblance. "

It is beyond dissemblance to say the Japanese do not fear rising car imports.

"In my experience, he never gave a straight answer when dissemblance was a plausible alternative.

Tan had come up with a masterpiece of dissemblance that gave him the complete advantage for the moment.

There was no dissemblance in her nature.

Her punishment is to bring Atys into a state of ultimate dissemblance: madness.

His heart's business the flatterer speaks not aloud, but all he obscures beneath the cloak of dissemblance and dissimulation.

But it is up to us to figure out what these towering personalities are really up to, since their speech is, as often as not, dissemblance.

The 15-22 dissemblance is very similar to the Ar-15 and SW M&P 15.

Dissemblance et figuration, Flammarion, 1990.

Bertolt Brecht and the Art of Dissemblance.

Whatever vices and wickedness that face shielded, Gretchen did not believe for a moment that a capacity for cold-blooded dissemblance was among them.

Fra Angelico: Dissemblance and Figuration.

One doesn't always like Odysseus - his nobility mixed with dissemblance, his gentleness mixed with ruthless fury - but one almost always recognizes him.

Maggie's own dissemblance and her determination to protect her father lead to a revenge that, by the book's end, may have broken the spirits of both Charlotte and the prince.

Italians, Moors, and Spaniards all are most adept at the proper execution of anything smacking of deceit, chicanery, dishonor, dissemblance, or the sub rosa, in general.

Calabro, Tony, Bertolt Brecht's Art of Dissemblance, Longwood Academic, 1990.

"In my experience, he never gave a straight answer when dissemblance was a plausible alternative," said the Telegraph's veteran business reporter Jeff Randall, who dealt with him regularly (when he worked at Carlton).

Most often it is used as a term of disparagement, applied to persons who are suspected of public misrepresentation of their actual religious beliefs by the practice of dissemblance (exhibiting false appearance) and dissimulation (concealing true beliefs).

It is a kind of revisionist history in that it is told by one Alexander T. Wolf, who wants it to be known that the standard version of the story is filled with half-truths, dissemblance, hypocrisy, pseudology and slander.

Such primary sources are understandably rare, even among educated blacks - especially women - who engaged in what the historian Darlene Clark Hine calls a "culture of dissemblance" in an effort to conceal their inner lives from a society that made them sexually vulnerable.

Akin to the gender commentary in The Fox on how the war had created a paradigm shift in the social roles within English society, this compelling narrative imparts to the reader a more intimate account of the death of a spirit and the dissemblance of class.