It grated, like the dissembling of some humans he had known.

This was one of the first lessons in delicate dissembling taught by his mother.

I couldn't possibly have let him testify before the tribunal and reveal himself, so the dissembling was necessary."

His life of paranoid dissembling had begun.

The street is not the oldest in the city and was formed after the dissembling of the city's fortifications at the end of 18th century.

Artful dissembling's not entirely unknown in that profession.

But that thing of his dissembling was only subject to his perceptibility, not to his will determinate.

Such dissembling is to be expected from a politician who needs to map her next moves with precision if she is to avoid further pitfalls.

"My dissembling has its limits.

Even if Clinton had done Jones no wrong, they say, his dissembling bespeaks a character unfit for his job.

The time for complicated cover stories and clever dissembling was over; nothing left now but the running and the shooting and the gratuitous violence.

BUT Mr. Bush's dissembling wasn't limited to his Supreme Court nominee.

At breakfast the next morning, Momma Koob showed Taylor and me an album of photos documenting the dissembling of the 1,000-pound bull moose.

But his uneasy dissembling was sufficient to lead Jehana back to the old, relatively safe topic of Morgan, whose Deryni proclivities were a secret to no one.

Despite the deceit and chronic dissembling of their political leaders in Washington, and the wretched conditions on the ground in Iraq, the young men and women are fighting bravely.

But this visual dissembling is exploitive, if not sinister, especially considering that Portman received concessions from the public sector in the hope that the hotel would help revive Times Square.

The dissembling ends the moment that Stevie, to whom Verloc has given the explosive package to plant, is accidentally blown to bits when he trips and falls en route to the observatory.

He was not going to attempt what Doctor Delde Sola had done, but his dissembling of the armor slowly revealed the body to be that of a sesheyan, a very young one, just barely adult.

But Mr. Cranston said when the dissembling was weighed against Mr. Derwinski's 30 years of service in Congress and the State Department, "I do not find his indiscretions as to this one incident to be disqualifying."

To the Editor: Corporate dissembling reached a new level in the declaration by a senior executive of the Raytheon Company, likening his Massachusetts-based company to helpless sheep because regulations compel it to buy costly power from in-state utilities (Business Day, May 18).

For, if he had broken an unspoken pact with his readers, who are entitled to "know what kind of text they are reading" (so Domosławski; see section "Controversial biography", below), this was due more to his audience's willful ignorance of his stance than to his dissembling of it.

But the rules appeared to be mainly a warning to the public that the government is treating SARS with the utmost gravity - part of the government's effort to show domestic and foreign audiences that despite earlier dissembling, it now means business in the fight against SARS.

I am not used, at least for these many years, to dissemble.

Indeed, however they may dissemble, the night is always their day.

But with you there is no need for me to dissemble.

I had not the energy to try to dissemble with him.

There has been a good deal of dissembling about this.

I have no idea what you're talking about,' she dissembled.

But until then, it was better to dissemble than to die.

That is a great lady with her I should dissemble.

In order to make something new, the old must be abandoned and/or dissembled.

Only the doubtful, those who were bad at living, needed to dissemble.

At least with Madame she did not have to dissemble.

Knowing him very well, I know that he would not rise just to dissemble.

I saw no reason to dissemble; my appearance was his investment.

She asked questions about him, careful to dissemble the intensity of her interest.

When dissembling was not enough, he piled on the laughs.

He thought of some innocent lies, but it was no use dissembling with her.

He was indeed sick of dissembling and determined to put an end to it.

Knows truth when he hears it; she is not dissembling.

"And then you have the issue as to whether our allies can ever believe us when we dissemble this way," he continued.

Because dissembling was futile through the bond, she said only their son's name.

We see too much, and it's difficult to dissemble all the time."

But then why did the administration dissemble so long about its contacts with Enron?

"Not my body," he said, too sick to dissemble any longer.

For a moment she felt him begin to dissemble.

They then dissembled and returned home without damage or arrests.