We don't need more dissembling, photo ops or happy talk.
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What could Trump possibly be accomplishing with this blatant dissembling?
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The Donald is doing his customary dissembling with his tax returns.
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Federal prosecutors have a much simpler explanation for Mr. Stone's dissembling.
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You're still dissembling about the core things that your business does.
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That they enlisted a Jew to do their dissembling was doubly grievous.
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He made no attempt to hide his displeasure when faced with dissembling.
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We have witnessed example after example of Trump dissembling or fully ignoring precedent.
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After so much dissembling, anything the Saudis say should be treated with deep suspicion.
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All of those trips to Congress, all that dissembling and dodging and general malarky?
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Maybe those answers are missing (or limited, or contradictory) because of wild institutional dissembling.
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It's dissembling that is about as convincing as the Wolf leering in granny's nightie.
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" "The guy's actually dissembling a little bit, and he's sounding more and more nonsensical.
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Dr. Birx is still dissembling on why US coronavirus testing remains a disaster pic.twitter.
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Some also view cinema and acting, as a form of dissembling, as inconsistent with Islam.
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Sadly, we have become largely inured to misleading, dissembling and dishonest statements from President Trump.
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The key to the dissembling American leader's apparent "success" lies in his carefully contrived simplifications.
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The constant dissembling was unbearable, he explains; he feared losing sight of who he was.
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But exclusions like the ones involving Cushman give a faint sense of whitewash and dissembling.
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Hersh felt keenly the injustice of the Vietnam War, and loathed dissembling of every variety.
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Dissembling and exaggeration are no strangers to politics, but this year's campaigns have been particularly egregious.
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The various forms of dissembling about vote fraud, however, at least have a clear tactical purpose.
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Yet there is no obvious connection between serial dissembling and the success of a policy agenda.
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That the fallout came in the form of dissembling digital assistants, however, is certainly a bit surprising.
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"There's been no effort to actually have it play tricky or dissembling games," he tells me (phew).
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The four arms fold into the body and the propellers tuck in without a need for dissembling.
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And the data show that they are entirely fine with the dissembling and opacity of their contender.
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As Wednesday's hearings showed, no one would make a better example then the "snitty," dissembling attorney general.
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"There are no such communications and if Bannon says there are he would be dissembling," he said.
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The Mooch has had enough of Trump's "dissembling" -- a ten-dollar word for lying -- and his racism.
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After days of dissembling, the Saudis have dropped the pretence that he left the building that same afternoon.
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Who will make sense of the dissembling new forces unpinning so many of the mores of American life?
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Three federal trial judges have ruled that the evidence in the record demonstrates that Mr. Ross was dissembling.
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He has cast his lot with a soulmate who has demonstrated a strategic brilliance for deflection, dissembling, and distraction.
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"It will only be for a few days," he reassured his wife, quickly dissembling with a guilty husband's desperation.
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The best ones have a ruthlessness, a willingness to get to the marrow of oneself, without preening and dissembling.
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While it's hard to tell if he is dissembling or dreaming, either way if he does come, Kim won't care.
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One of the party's most sagacious presences, he knew perfectly well the impact of his words but didn't bother dissembling.
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The most famous of these is Paro, the $6,000 Class II medical device dissembling as a fuzzy baby harp seal.
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He thus tried to avoid both pitfalls by simply giving vague, qualified answers and dissembling about Exxon's record on sanctions.
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They know all the usual gambits and ruses of adversaries and have a reputation for defiance, dissembling, obfuscation, prevarication and fabrication.
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Any answer would be fine so long as it's Mueller, and not a dissembling and deceptive attorney general, who provides it.
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Note that while Trump leaves the door open to contacting the FBI if it happens, he's equivocal and dissembling at best.
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The company is also responsible for dissembling bleachers, stands and the platform at the west front of the Capitol by Feb.
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The goal of achieving a desired racial composition on campus depends on Wizard of Oz-like schemes of dissembling and doublethink.
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" Mr. Delzer said the email, which he posted on an Amazon forum, was clear and Amazon was dissembling about "White Republic.
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If Flynn blows the cooperation — meaning, Mueller concludes that he is holding back or dissembling — Mueller simply drops the other shoe.
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If they didn't, then that suggests they gambled on dissembling the truth in the hope that nobody besides Jacobs could contradict them.
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This is not the first time the ratings industry has acted as a dissembling enabler for continued out of control government spending.
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The panels of beef emerge beautifully tender, the connecting stitches of fat visible to the eye but dissembling immediately on the tongue.
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It's a White House where even whether the president is golfing on any given weekend is the subject of dissembling and fabrication.
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Trump has steadfastly tried to deflect blame for the separation of children from their parents, consistently dissembling about why it is occurring.
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Pity British voters because they are being subjected to a barrage of distortion, dissembling and disinformation without precedent in the country's history.
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Either she's dissembling because she doesn't feel comfortable being outed as a hyperconservative or she actually is just a pure social climber.
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No evidence has emerged to prove that Mr Abe or Mr Aso ordered either the cut-price sale or the dissembling to parliament.
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That alone would have forced a discipline and discouraged the sort of dissembling we've witnessed over the last 18 months from the podium.
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When politicians promise voters vastly increased government services paid by increased taxes on only a small sliver of the population, I see dissembling.
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" In fact, she said, they were proof that the witnesses had not been coached and after months of dissembling had finally "come clean.
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It may not get its way with a mercurial, dissembling President, but it is firm, clear and unfazed, its eyes on the prize.
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The choice now would seem to be between building egalitarian institutions capable of withstanding public scrutiny, or further retreat into a dissembling fog.
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Ziegler's comments to the press, as he sought to parry damaging revelations along the way, are now part of the canon of political dissembling.
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"Grails was always dissembling itself after each record and eventually re-building itself into a new form for the next one," explains Emil Amos.
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But Mr. Trump has steadfastly tried to deflect blame for the separation of children from their parents, consistently dissembling about why it is occurring.
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It's amazing that anyone believes such a situation is possible, which may be why the mainstream media has largely ignored the vast GOP dissembling.
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Each read the other's blundering and dissembling as intentional, deepening suspicions among hard-liners that the other side was laying the groundwork for war.
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Questionable comments and dissembling about the reason for a rising market may be bad business, but whether they constitute a crime remains to be seen.
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Trump's dissembling about the benefits of selling arms to Saudi Arabia likely comes from the oil-rich kingdom's genuine importance to the president's foreign policy.
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This much is clear: Impending global annihilation brings out the dissembling side of public institutions, whether it's the United States government or the Catholic Church.
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A certain amount of dissembling has been a part of politics for thousands of years, but Trump is relentlessly dishonest in a very odd way.
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Even though you have to plow through the crowds and the dissembling of PR representatives to get to the good stuff, it's almost always worth it.
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An independent-minded girl, born with a kind of preternatural confidence, Prabhati was also a devoted daughter, obedient to her parents, incapable of dissembling to them.
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That testimony should shed light on the most relevant issues -- Russian election interference and Trump's potential obstruction -- and, in the process, further expose Barr's politically-driven dissembling.
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Trump has no demonstrated understanding of infrastructure policy, but he is a decent liar, and his dissembling is echoed by a large and well-financed propaganda machine.
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The constant dissembling does not help (Mr Trump is "a professional liar", in the view of Gary Cohn, formerly the director of the president's National Economic Council).
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In isolation, these examples might be quickly forgotten, but together, they fit the pattern of a campaign that has largely been built on scapegoating, dissembling and sensationalism.
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Trump, from the very beginning, has been overwhelming the public with lies and dissembling, while at the same time attacking society's truth-seekers — journalists, investigators and jurists.
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The President has been dissembling about so many different things at once that it can be difficult to keep track of what is true and what isn't.
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It later emerged that Mr. Trump and senior White House officials had been well aware of Mr. Flynn's dissembling for weeks before Mr. Pence learned of it.
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Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, whose dissembling about conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak got him fired, was a Trump foreign policy surrogate during the campaign.
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But it's certain that after bullshitting about Trump, dissembling about Pryor, misleading about Miranda, and offering an implausible plea of ignorance about Kozinski, Kavanaugh isn't a trustworthy figure.
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You have written that you wish you could get over Bill Clinton, but you were sad to see the "emotionally abusive, constantly disappointing, dissembling, philandering leader" leave office.
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He, more than any other writer I can think of, could cut through cant and sophistry and dissembling to expose our collective self-deceptions for what they are.
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"The extensiveness and egregiousness of the disregard, deception and dissembling occurring here leave no alternative but to reverse" the conviction, the seven-judge court said in its unanimous opinion.
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Despite this year's candidates having varying reputations for dissembling in public, Fahrenkopf said he does not want the debate moderator to try and be a real-time fact-checker.
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Then on Thursday, just before the report was made public, the attorney general tarnished himself and undermined the integrity of his office by dissembling about what the report said.
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But in most ways, this is just annoying dissembling from Intel that everybody else is forced to play along with because Intel gets to name its things whatever it chooses.
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Had Mr Trump not dulled the word "collusion" through overuse, it might seem to describe the relationship between his campaign and the Russian government: mutual aid coupled with persistent dissembling.
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Most notable was Sean Spicer, the dissembling former press secretary, who hid in -- correction: among -- some bushes on the White House grounds rather than confront a hungry pack of reporters.
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Cory Booker gave a much more dissembling answer, a seeming acknowledgment of the tricky constitutional issues involved in removing a group's tax-exempt status on the basis of views or beliefs.
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Mr. Trump views his aggressive tactics with Beijing as a way to break a pattern of Chinese dissembling that he contends has characterized China's negotiations with the last three American presidents.
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Even when cooler heads and bigger brains prevailed, and Trump stopped trying to wish the virus away and started the work of driving it away, he was hapless, dishonest and dissembling.
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The Justice Department had warned the White House weeks ago that Mr. Flynn's dissembling put him at risk of blackmail from Russian intelligence, but he was kept by the president's side.
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The title character of George Kelly's 1924 play "The Show-Off" is a boasting buffoon named Aubrey Piper — a vain, dissembling blowhard with an obvious toupee and galloping delusions of grandeur.
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And Kavanaugh's decision to handle these allegations from day one with angry denials and weird dissembling rather than an apology and a plea for mercy makes this an excellent place to start.
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For all the frivolous press coverage suggesting she didn't show enough emotion, and all the right-wing fulminating over her supposed deviousness, it seems her talent for dissembling has been greatly exaggerated.
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If the domain name were active, the malware would assume it was a false positive from a researcher dissembling its code, and WannaCrypt was designed to frustrate such analyses by shutting itself down.
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The filmmaker actually released a short video dissembling one of his puppets limb by limb, which you can watch, after the full animation, below: Deer Flower was this week's Vimeo Staff Pick Premiere.
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This person insisted, vehemently, that there is no dissembling in the company's response, that it didn't secretly remove compromised servers, or discover compromised servers during the acceptance process and stop short of deploying them.
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Today's dissembling over the annual budget plan, already more than six months after the due date required by law and with no one holding our lawmakers accountable, is just the latest episode of nonfeasance.
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The attitudes of people in AI toward these methods of dissembling at the "user interface" have ranged from contempt to celebration, with a general appreciation that the tricks are not deep but can be potent.
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The Chinese authorities have a long history of dissembling about diseases that affect both humans and animals, including the SARS crisis of 2003 and an outbreak of another porcine infection, blue-ear pig disease, in 2007.
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Or he might have brought Bannon into the NSC because he is so isolated that he needs someone who he believes he can trust, and everyone in the foreign policy establishment is dragging feet and dissembling.
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"You know, we would have to look, but I tell you — what I ask for, and what I always will ask for, is anything having to do with corruption with respect to our country," Trump said, dissembling.
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Employees of Facebook, possibly Silicon Valley's most controversial company, held their peace even after a New York Times investigation that showed a pattern of company leaders conniving, dissembling, and kowtowing to conservatives as the platform's problems mounted.
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She has been a protagonist in some of the most protracted political scandals in recent history, from her husband's sexual infidelities to her own dissembling about the use of a private email server while secretary of state.
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But Lövin, clearly a canny politician with more than a little talent for the art of diplomatic dissembling, refrained from stating outright right that the photo was meant as a direct parody of the Trump signing photos.
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Empty streets almost immediately began to fill with cars and bicycles, and local residents began dissembling the barricades they had put up in protest of Mr. Morales's re-election, diligently sweeping up the debris into garbage sacks.
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"The police dissembling on this over the years—dodging the questions, and their denials—significantly undermined the credibility of the police, which is a key component of their accountability," said David Fraser, a Canadian digital privacy lawyer.
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They have accused him of dissembling on a range of issues from his time in the George W. Bush White House, including a breach of secret Democratic files on judicial nominations and discussions about detainee policy and torture.
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Her most likely successor, given the extent of rabid pro-Brexit sentiment among Tories, is Boris Johnson, the unscrupulous, ramshackle, flip-flopping, dissembling former foreign secretary, whose uncertain relationship with the truth and unwavering narcissism resemble Donald Trump's.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden, right up there with or slightly ahead of Warren in most recent polling, has sought to cast Warren -- with the timing of her Medicare for All announcement as evidence -- as dissembling, unprepared, or both.
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Watching Mr. Ovitz simultaneously manage his clients and his partners while the going was good is something to behold: the strange fascination with gifting and clothing; the obsession with establishing bona fides in art and architecture; even the dissembling.
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" Separately, the novelist and Iraq war veteran Kevin Powers writes about the enduring "moral clarity" of the story, saying that Vonnegut "could cut through cant and sophistry and dissembling to expose our collective self-deceptions for what they are.
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His defiant—at times almost unhinged—support for Mr Trump over the past three years has made him loathed in his old New York base and, because no one loves a dissembling lawyer, won him few friends outside it.
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And because Gard's parents' wishes conflict so drastically with medical opinion, it's easier still to cast them in the role of tragic martyrs — victims of a profound anti-family bias, in which dissembling pseudo-experts override natural familial instinct.
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Meanwhile, Abe also confronted dissembling on Kim Jong-un's recent missile tests, which Trump dismissed as acts of "a man who wants to get attention" even after national security adviser John Bolton had called them a violation of UN sanctions.
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I thought early on that as more and more Q predictions did not come to pass, the following would dwindle, but these incredibly online grandparents have seemingly endless capacity for dissembling, and can conspiracy-brain themselves out of almost any corner.
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But the magnitude and timing of the crash, as well as official dissembling about it, have given it special resonance at a moment when Iranian leaders are rallying the public to endure more hardship in their continuing standoff with Washington.
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Collectors who emphatically want to remain anonymous tend to go to considerable — often successful — lengths to protect their identities, from enlisting unlikely bidding surrogates to throw us off the scent to outright dissembling when asked whether they are behind a purchase.
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The lead prosecutor in the case, Jonathan Ian Kravis, an assistant United States attorney, also accused Mr. Stone of dissembling when he insisted that he could not remember who might have given him photos of Judge Jackson to choose from.
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It's a rough transition, especially for Hobie's director, Laurence Laurentz (Ralph Fiennes, perfection), who tries to squeeze the drawl out of the cowboy in an elocution lesson that makes for a very funny duet and illustrates Hollywood magic at its dissembling best.
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So you get instead what he's delivered over the past two weeks — aggressive hostage-taking, lying, trolling, chaos, dissembling, and cruelty — none of which is going to advance Trump's legislative goals or address the underlying issue of the northward flow of asylum seekers.
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The details in the complaint paint a picture of Mr. Johnson and Mr. Scott dissembling to keep the customer from learning about how HSBC was taking an advantageous position ahead of the large trade to increase its profit from the $3.5 billion order.
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Emails disclosed during litigation challenging the question showed that Mr. Ross had begun discussing the addition of the question several months before that, and three federal trial judges have ruled that the evidence in the record demonstrates that Mr. Ross was dissembling.
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Tuesday's marathon brawl over the rules of the trial, extending well past midnight, offered a bracing glimpse of what he can look forward to in the coming days: pettiness, partisanship, preening, dissembling and enough outrage, faux and genuine, to unnerve a lesser man.
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This is what sociologist Arlie Hochschild has called the "emotional dissonance" or deliberate dissembling of service workers — a category that I think today capaciously extends beyond the prototypical customer service agent or nanny — who must produce experiences of ease, well-being, and satisfaction for others.
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" Mark Oppenheimer wrote that "not all works of history have something to say so directly to the present," but Thompson's book, "which deals with racial conflict, mass incarceration, police brutality and dissembling politicians, reads like it was special-ordered for the sweltering summer of 2016.
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After weeks of denial and dissembling, Trump imposed a travel ban from Europe, but, in a televised address, sought to downplay the severity, avoiding crucial questions like testing and the looming pervasive shutdowns — amid self-congratulatory claims of what a great job he's doing.
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Whatever one thinks of the Ghomeshi essay — my purpose isn't to defend it; I understand why many found it sniveling and dissembling — I suspect that The Review's parting of ways with Mr. Buruma will change the nature and content of intellectual culture in our country.
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"It is now almost 2020, and here are our female candidates: the Meanie, the Lightweight, the Crazies, and the Angry, Dissembling Elitists," the journalist Rebecca Traister wrote, archly, in November, referring to the caricatures that have emerged of the women vying for the Democratic nomination.
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But sometimes, the administration's dissembling is so egregious that it can't be laughed off, such as on Monday when White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer revised the history of the Trump campaign, transition, and the early days of the administration to write central characters into trivial roles.
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Obama He also took on Obama, who had hours before assailed him for, among other things, "constant fear-mongering" and chronic dissembling and telling outright falsehoods about the GOP's efforts, past and present, to dismantle the Affordable Care Act's protections for people with pre-existing conditions.
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The big ratings offer a quantifiable measure for what has become a truism in Washington: Three weeks into the Trump administration, Mr. Spicer's daily joust with reporters — peppered with fiery exchanges, memorable malapropisms and some much discussed dissembling — are now must-see-TV for the political class.
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Despite the President's posture in these tweets, his conduct surrounding payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal suggests a guilty conscience: By hiding the payments for a year, falsely categorizing them as legal expenses and dissembling about their existence, the President may have backed himself into a corner.
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During this assembling and dissembling of her mouth, LaFleur attempts to hum Leslie Gore's 1962 anthem "You Don't Own Me." The piece is intended to be either performed live in a gallery or shown as a single-channel video, with the ephemera from the performance displayed on a black velvet tray.
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Mutual distrust between the US and the Soviet Union nearly resulted in war, even as it became increasingly obvious the initial incident had been a mistake: Each read the other's blundering and dissembling as intentional, deepening suspicions among hard-liners that the other side was laying the groundwork for war.
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Attorney general William Barr told Congress Wednesday he's hoping the public will finally get a look at the 300-plus page document sometime within the next week, ending a bizarre period of dissembling and fumbling by Barr that has left America with more questions than answers about the seriousness of what Mueller uncovered.
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On any given day, the media offer up rational arguments and news stories that critique Trump's presidency and reveal everything from the confusion and dissembling about policy and personnel to the lack of personal ethics and widespread corruption to the serious concerns experts have about foreign policy threats and the Russia investigation.
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Dissembling about it — as in Mr. Trump's assertion, earlier in the crisis, that coronavirus would just "go away," or his claim that it was just like the flu, or his blatant contradiction of his own experts on how long it would take to come up with a vaccine — is never helpful, Mr. Litt said.
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But Trump's apparent confusion, frequent self-contradiction and dissembling, his hodgepodge management style that has led to snafus on the most sensitive foreign policy matters—all that might be evidence of incompetence or a man in far over his head, but not necessarily cognitive decline, which in practice is a difficult thing to track.
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Books of The Times Not all works of history have something to say so directly to the present, but Heather Ann Thompson's "Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 22000 and Its Legacy," which deals with racial conflict, mass incarceration, police brutality and dissembling politicians, reads like it was special-ordered for the sweltering summer of 274.
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A country that has benefited from its 46-year participation in a union of more than a half-billion Europeans is drifting toward a self-amputation understood by few, opposed by the young, abetted by a dissembling anti-American Labour leader, driven by little-England Tory right-wingers holding the country for ransom, and, according to polls, no longer wanted by the majority.
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A week after facing a brutal dissembling of her record in a New York Times op-ed piece by University of San Francisco associate law professor Lara Bazelon, who is the former director of the Loyola Law School Project for the Innocent, Harris renewed her efforts to frame herself as someone who tried to fight for a "more fair criminal justice system" from within.
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Add to those handicaps an unpopular press secretary who says things that are proven to be untrue; a dissembling adviser with no facts and little grip on the truth; a senior adviser utterly lacking in humility whose propensity for alternate facts defies logic; and last but by no means least, Flynn, whose tenure as national security adviser is the shortest on record and whose own alternate facts cost him his job.
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For Democrats determined to derail Judge Kavanaugh, his performance last week before the Senate Judiciary Committee — his dissembling about his teenage years; his playing down drinking in high school and college; his raw, angry emotions; and his broadsides against Democratic questioners — is proving to be a new avenue of attack, if the accusations of sexual assault are not enough to swing the votes of three key Republicans and two undecided Democrats.
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