| It is now clear, however, that this was just the first stage in the Government's dissembling over the presentation of a decision already taken. |
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| Women writers developed an artistry of indirection, dissembling, splitting, masking, and coding to get their anger out into the public sphere. |
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| Before you write anything, before you take their word for anything, you ought to carefully study the possibility that they are dissembling. |
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| Poker also requires analytical skill, but above all it requires skill in bluffing and dissembling. |
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| And the nice thing's he's such a dissembling goof-off that nobody ever suspects he'd do any of the things he winds up doing. |
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| The male narrators offer the woman's body as the place where they are momentarily free from the pressures of dissembling a myth of themselves. |
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| Everytime a politician speaks, you know, they're fooling you, they're dissembling. |
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| Dionne's commendably honest assessment at the end of the piece is at odds with his earlier dissembling. |
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| Not dissembling, not equivocating, not prevaricating, not misinforming, not distorting. |
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| Strauss goes so far as to say that dissembling and deception-in effect, a culture of lies-is the peculiar justice of the wise. |
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| When he believed in something, he was incapable of dissembling or prevaricating. |
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| On the other hand, Enderlin has enough of a reputation for dissembling that it could all be show. |
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| Even so, the intimate, dissembling, distant transmissions exchanged via these radioactive pieces of plastic thread through the album's episodic songs. |
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| They are either deeply confused, or deliberately dissembling. |
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| And the others, the other scientific advisers and other military officers, senior officials who were in our hands, you sense they're still dissembling as well? |
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| If Rick hated anything, it was lies, dissembling, falseness, pretension. |
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| He, meanwhile, grew tired of the lying, the dissembling, which she did constantly. |
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| Both agencies, especially the CIA, had intramural interests for dissembling and hiding the true facts. |
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| Notwithstanding that Australia had been, um, settled for 60,000 years, it's quite a feat of dissembling to substitute occupation with investment. |
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| In the magnificent accompanied recitative, she expresses her shame at having to stoop to dissembling in order to win back her husband's love. |
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| Who would believe that a Canadian could be dissembling or misleading in an international arena? |
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| Look! Look what has become of the great Lord's House? they say, while tearing It down and dissembling. |
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| Correcting any mistakes invariably means dissembling down to the level of the error. |
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| He famously hoaxed the art world with his fictitious creation Nat Tate but when it comes to the theatrical sphere, William Boyd hopes the only dissembling will be done by the actors in his new play. |
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| Professionally and socially ambitious, he made his way with shrewd judgment, acquired sophistication and engaging but dissembling charm, the charm of a back patter who is also a backbiter. |
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| In frustration at the constant dissembling of Bosnian politicians, the international community has arrogated a series of bold new powers to itself. |
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| Compare the logic of those nameless bankers with the arguments of Judt or Parry-Jones, which are underpinned with a sense of responsibility that goes beyond self-interest and dissembling. |
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| But it is the refuseniks—from probably honourable Brazil and Egypt to dissembling Iran and Syria that most concern inspectors. And there is the nub of the problem. |
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| I think discipline is important, and we therefore ask the Commission to provide an interim report on compliance in 2010, to check whether the adjusters are actually adjusting or merely dissembling. |
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| The Irish, then, lead European respondents in the two-way dance of dissembling to fit in with expectations, whether as interviewee or interviewer. |
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| This torture is based in dissembling the family unit by separating: parent and child, grandparent and grandchild, uncles and aunts from nieces and nephews, brothers and sisters from cousins. |
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