But that means ceding the public sphere to dissemblers and propagandists.
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Her parents were frantic dissemblers who struggled to conceal scandals of illegitimacy, abandonment and institutionalization.
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The country has always been a breeding ground for "dissemblers, operators, and downright swindlers," Balleisen writes.
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Cohen is just one of the many hangers-on who make shady careers out of fastening, remora-like, to marginally wealthier crooks and dissemblers.
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If mainstream journalists assume bad faith on the part of dissemblers on the right, they're going to lose a lot of guests, sources, and viewers.
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PAUL: I think what is hard is, is that when you look at our intelligence community over the last several years, it was led by people who have turned out to be ranked partisans and, frankly, dissemblers and liars.
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Or perhaps that's not what it is; much depends on whether you believe that Philip is a reliable narrator or one of those dissemblers who's so good at lying to the world because he's incapable of telling himself the truth.
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For it may be said of men in general that they are ungrateful, voluble dissemblers, anxious to avoid danger, and covetous of gain; as long as you benefit them, they are entirely yours; they offer you their blood, their goods, their life, and their children, as I have before said, when the necessity is remote; but when it approaches, they revolt.
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He emphasises that Vassa only used his African name in his autobiography. Other historians also argue that the fact that many parts of Equiano's account can be proven lends weight to accepting his account of African birth. As historian Adam Hochschild has written: > In the long and fascinating history of autobiographies that distort or > exaggerate the truth. ... Seldom is one crucial portion of a memoir totally > fabricated and the remainder scrupulously accurate; among autobiographers > ... both dissemblers and truth-tellers tend to be consistent.
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Anaphora is repeating the same word(s) at the beginning of successive sentences, phrases or clauses. There’s no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers. (R&J; 3.2) With mine own tears I wash away my balm, With mine own hands I give away my crown, With mine own tongue deny my sacred state, With mine own breath release all duty's rites. (R2 4.1) Epistrophe is repeating the same word(s) at the end instead.
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Thomas Middleton, depicted in the frontispiece of Two New Plays, a 1657 edition of Women Beware Women and More Dissemblers Besides Women Thomas Middleton (baptised 18 April 1580 – July 1627; also spelled Midleton) was an English Jacobean playwright and poet. Middleton, along with John Fletcher and Ben Jonson, was among the most successful and prolific of the playwrights at work in the Jacobean period. He was among the few to achieve equal success in comedy and tragedy. He was a prolific writer of masques and pageants.
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Recent examples of anti-Welsh sentiment in the media include the journalist A. A. Gill (born in Scotland to English parents) who in the Sunday Times in 1997 described the Welsh as "loquacious, dissemblers, immoral liars, stunted, bigoted, dark, ugly, pugnacious little trolls." The English writer A. N. Wilson said: "The Welsh have never made any significant contribution to any branch of knowledge, culture or entertainment. They have no architecture, no gastronomic tradition, no literature worthy of the name." (Evening Standard, 1993) In 2000, a cross-party group of Members of the National Assembly of Wales, representing all four political parties in the Assembly, called for an end to what they termed "persistent anti-Welsh racism" in the UK media.
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