The novel takes the delightfully dark vision of the film's writer-director (who seems to be an anti-fabulist fabulist, if there is such a thing) and approaches it all too literally.
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Lemann is far too delicate to call Epstein a fabulist.
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Londonderry, it turned out, was a bit of a fabulist.
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In Hunter's metaphor, he compares draft-dodging fabulist Donald Trump to Navy SEAL sniper fabulist Chris Kyle, who killed scores of Iraqi insurgents before he was tragically murdered stateside by a disturbed Marine Corps veteran.
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The fabulist wants to dramatize himself; the fraud, to deceive others.
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Who cares if he spread the lies of a serial fabulist?
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Art Review CHICAGO — Prodigy, pathfinder, nonconformist, virtuoso; fabulist, plagiarist, colonialist, pedophile.
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Gary's example defines a fundamental distinction between the fabulist and the fraud.
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Mr. Nye was a word-drunk fabulist, steeped in the oral tradition.
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Fleabag was a dubious narrator, a fabulist with delusions of grandeur and a
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The entire story reads like a fabulist plot from a piece of spy fiction.
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Mr. Trump even went on TV to accuse Ms. Carlson of being a fabulist.
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David Brock, who made his name in the '90s as the man who penned fabulist
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I once knew a great fabulist who, never entirely inventing, always intensified for dramatic effect.
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Maybe Posobiec, being a fabulist, was planning on inventing a lurid tale of depraved behavior?
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One must take Mr. Wolff, a self-admitted fabulist, with a healthy grain of salt.
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Yet this is no typical fall-from-power-through-hubris narrative or fabulist cautionary tale.
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Another well-received entry was the fabulist Russian film "Zoology", which won the special jury prize.
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The extent to which he was a fabulist, a self-mythologizer — I didn't really know about that.
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If I'm going to say that this guy's a fabulist, I have to know that he is.
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Some years ago, my then-agent suggested that, being a fabulist, I should write a children's book.
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One is that Ford, a professor who teaches clinical psychology at Palo Alto University, is a fabulist.
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That includes even the formidable Seacole, despite her undeniable achievements and her matching skills as a fabulist.
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After the killing, lawyers for the Yuan family said Mr. Zhao was a fabulist and motivated by revenge.
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She shifts in this way from the didactic to the fabulist — and at her best moments melds the two.
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O'Brien's "unsettling fabulist vision" recalls "Nabokov in his darker, less playful mode," our reviewer, Joyce Carol Oates, wrote here.
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They might even embrace as their new savior a megalomaniacal fabulist who insists he alone can fix this broken world.
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"CoDex 1962" is the newly translated triptych by the Icelandic fabulist Sjon, heralded as an heir to Kafka and Borges.
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This slyly fabulist story inhabits the point of view of a sickly goat taken in by a poor Indian family.
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Despite his elaborately staged and clearly labeled figures, the invention in his fabulist imagery left so much to the imagination.
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The fabulist wants to convey the dramatic experience of events, while the fraud wants to convey a false evaluation of them.
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And, until he entered politics, that was OK. After all: Trump was hardly the only fabulist at work in the culture.
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The writer and director Kim Nguyen's film is in a distinctly fabulist mode that becomes more pronounced as it goes on.
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The fabulous fabulist David Ives adapts Pierre Corneille's 17th-century farce about a truth-challenged charmer and his helplessly honest servant.
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He has proven himself to be a bigoted and ill-informed narcissist, and an anti-intellectual fabulist with a nanosecond attention span.
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Among them are the notorious melting sea ice exaggerator Peter Wadhams and the ecologist and the-end-is-nigh-fabulist Guy McPherson.
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Legendary sportswriter and occasional fabulist Mitch Albom long ago pivoted to acting as resident lawn guardian for his hometown Detroit Free Press.
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In Kansas, Kris Kobach, another Trump favorite and fabulist, pulled off an upset win in the race for the Republican gubernatorial nod.
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It is still plausible that Trump, an entrenched bigot, a conspiracy fabulist, and a casual disparager of international alliances, could become President.
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Hell, even The Wire's journalism storyline was mostly terrible, despite great acting by future Spotlight director Tom McCarthy as serial fabulist Scott Templeton.
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The broad reach of a deranged, far-right fabulist, Alex Jones of Infowars, long depended on his use of YouTube and other platforms.
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What remains consistent in this globetrotting collection is Ausubel's wit, and her tenderness, and her commitment to exploring universal quandaries in fabulist ways.
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He looked up the name "Fontaine" and came across Jean de la Fontaine, a famed French poet and fabulist from the 17th century.
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The most prominent Fallist is probably Mcebo Dlamini, a fabulist in his 30s who claims to have studied nuclear physics, statistics and politics.
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He later took techniques commonly attributed to Rouch — especially handheld camerawork and collaborative improvisation — in a wild, fabulist direction with his live-action work.
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Even where classic conspiracy theories abound, there is little evidence of the kind of bare assertion and fabulist concoction that characterize the new conspiracism.
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" In "On Second Thought" (2016), the sitter's muscular curves suggest early Roman statuary while idealizing gayness in the tradition of Cadmus's fabulist etching "Y.
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But Sondland has also been described as a bit of a fabulist, so be prepared to take his testimony with a grain of salt.
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What does a lightweight like Happy, a fabulist with a talent for bedding other men's women, have to do with a weathered heavy bag?
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As a businessman, Donald J. Trump was a serial fabulist whose biggest-best boasts about everything he touched routinely crumbled under the slightest scrutiny.
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So it was oddly logical that the austere gloom of David Fincher's world was followed by the bizarre stylings of French fabulist Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
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Elizabeth Hart Bergstrom is a writer of nonfiction, fiction and poetry who lives in Vermont and is working on a collection of fabulist short stories.
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What a tempting character for a novelist to write about, especially the aftermath of the exposure when he was revealed to have been a fabulist.
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Today's official eye-winking at "white nationalism" serves not science or discovery or even geopolitical imperatives but the reality-show aspirations of a professional fabulist.
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Like some amalgam of science fiction fabulist and pornographer, Kool Keith — a 1980s innovator turned '90s eccentric turned 2000s mystery — pinballs among topics, sentiments and scenes.
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Given the general unreality of the Trump administration, perhaps the truest account is one written not by a normal journalist but by a fabulist like Wolff.
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This strikingly overlong number is from the soundtrack to "A Million Little Pieces," a film based on the memoir-turned-novel by the fabulist James Frey.
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The two artists he most suggests are the philosophical fabulist Jorge Luis Borges and Edgar G. Ulmer, the pragmatic maker of bargain-basement sophisticated B-movies.
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A shameless fabulist and social climber, who threw fax machines when she got angry, she was also brave and tireless, and these qualities are given equal weight.
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And with its CGI projections and adventure-film soundtrack, it better captured the spirit of a video game than the poetic wit of the innovative Italian fabulist.
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But Trump seems to need perpetual outside approval to stabilize his sense of self, so he is perpetually desperate for approval, telling heroic fabulist tales about himself.
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By the midpoint of the program (Joy Street, El Doctor), this influence becomes pronounced, and a happy symbiosis emerges between Mexico's fabulist visual culture and Pitt's organic imaginary.
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To quote a fake doctor and serial fabulist who fooled dozens of publications into publishing his fake studies, "Reality is inflatable and everything is part of the game."
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Although Jack appears to have dispatched the Parkers at the end, the resurrection of those Grand Guignol figures shouldn't be a problem for an inspired fabulist like Grecian.
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The architect of the candidate's last-gasp attempt to bring the country down with him is Steve Bannon, the former head of a fabulist, far-right website — Breitbart.
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Gogol, fabulist of an empire that gave us the phrase "Potemkin village," feels almost predestined to illuminate this particular moment, the collective hangover of larceny losing its luster.
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Roving Eye As a child, Leonora Carrington — painter, fabulist, incorrigible eccentric — developed the disconcerting ability to write backward with her left hand while writing forward with her right.
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Unlike a lot of people in those spaces, and despite being a fabulist, Lane understood how to weaponize information, which made him even more useful, and a little scary.
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The parallels aren't simply the work of a fabulist, though; the playfully urgent film is inspired by real events—as Lee styles it, "some fo' real, fo' real shit".
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For their part, Stone's attorneys tried to tell the story of a fabulist who walked into the House Intelligence Committee not fully realizing what they wanted to ask him about.
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One from the backlist, Sequoia Nagamatsu's Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone is a collection of 12 fabulist tales inspired by Japanese folklore, historical events, and pop culture.
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Glass turned out to be a prolific fabulist who'd inserted fake details in dozens of pieces — a Vanity Fair article about his deception was turned into the 2003 film Shattered Glass.
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My only dissatisfaction is Cercas's recurrent attempt to draw a parallel between Marco's imposture and that other Spanish fabulist Don Quixote, who also lied to become the hero of his fantasies.
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But the elder Bloom is a bit of a fabulist, and his baroque, convoluted history (starring Ewan McGregor as Finney's younger self) gives Finney plenty of charming speeches to chew on.
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When, in the opening pages, she says she has "a throng of admirers who can't keep their adoring eyes off me", she announces herself as a fabulist as well as an observer.
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A Surrealist painter and fabulist, she wrote 25 fantastical and droll stories in English, Spanish and French — stories that blend the lure of a fairy tale with elements unpleasantly familiar and frightening.
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The true-crime series "The Confession Killer" digs into the scandal that erupted when Lucas was exposed as a fabulist and the families of victims were seized by anger and newfound uncertainty.
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So when I tell you that Waithe worked with infamous fabulist James Frey on the story, based on an original treatment by Frey, just concentrate on all the great things about this project.
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It is a fabulist portrait of Japan at its most inward and isolated, 300 years before it was forced to open its ports to the world, after a millennia of self-imposed exile.
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Inept fabulist and Counselor to President Trump Kellyanne Conway continued her campaign of foisting verifiably false information onto members of the press yesterday when she claimed a terrorist attack had taken place in Bowling Green.
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Yet even as the movie is conscientious in its depiction of Beatrice's and Donatella's symptoms, it winds up doing some effectively fabulist sentimental hedging to support both its societal critique and its female-bonding theme.
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Odysseus' sly proficiency as a fabulist, as a teller of tall tales and an outright liar, has endeared him to audiences over a hundred generations; writers and poets, in particular, see him as a virtuoso of language.
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Carmen Maria Machado's inventive, sexually exuberant debut, "Her Body and Other Parties" — which includes a novella-length section outlining 272 speculative, alternative views of "Law & Order: SVU" episodes — reveals characters with crystalline consciousnesses clouded by their fabulist circumstances.
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A singer, a dancer, an arranger, a master fabulist, a virtuoso trumpeter adept at a half-dozen other instruments, too: Back when being all these things could also mean being a pop star, Valaida Snow was a sensation.
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What we haven't seen, not in my lifetime, is a major-party nominee who is such an unabashed and unrepentant fabulist, with so little control over his temper and a worldview shaped entirely by what and who flatter him.
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They also do something that I think needs to be said: they take Asian American fiction to a new place, where categories that may once have been used to separate realist narratives, science fiction, fabulist concoctions, and folktales no longer apply.
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Nora Twomey, who co-directed Kells and the studio's 2002 short From Darkness, applies the fabulist tone she's honed to a more realism-based tale, about a young girl who disguises herself as a boy to work and support her family.
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Benevolent hustler (he never took a cut of others' action) or naughty fabulist — perhaps both — Mr. Bowers putters around his hoarded Hollywood Hills home and gazes into the hole in his patio deck as if searching for something lost long ago.
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" The characters regard fabulist encroachments and otherworldly threats with a kind of deadpan practicality: In the first story, the book's central figure, a grandmother, remarks of a waterlogged, eyeless ghost, "The face is where the fish nibble first, you know.
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Mallory, who was once Hannah's editor and sort-of friend, is revealed in the piece to be a serial fabulist who fooled large swatches of the publishing industry by falsely claiming to have a fatal brain tumor, among other things.
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Here, in addition to O'Brien's celebrated gifts of lyricism and mimetic precision, is a new, unsettling fabulist vision that suggests Kafka more than Joyce, as her portrait of the psychopath "warrior poet" Vladimir Dragan suggests Nabokov in his darker, less playful mode.
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Regarding the first: I was unable to find a historical example of Moloch being depicted as an owl, an idea that some authors have traced to "Dark Secrets Inside Bohemian Grove," a 22000 documentary filmed and produced by the radio fabulist Alex Jones.
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" It was a jarring moment from the bone-dry Mr. Macdonald, and it represented a few more seconds of sincerity than you get in the 240 pages of "Based on a True Story," his often very funny but always very fabulist "memoir.
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The details of the scandal are larger than life, but A Very English Scandal's fabulist sensibility is restricted to some emotional beats between Jeremy Thorpe and Norman Scott (played by Grant and Whishaw, respectively) rather than in any of the details of what happened.
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Portrayed with logorrheic verve by Jessica Jelliffe, this mother to two stunted grown sons (played by Mr. Craig and Peter Blomquist) looks like the product of an unseemly coupling between Winnie, the chatty heroine of Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days," and the fabulist's fabulist Baron Munchausen.
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The biographical details are even more difficult to parse; Jacobson often makes little attempt to distinguish between life events that might have actually occurred versus those invented by a deeply paranoid fabulist, leaving the reader with no real means to judge the book's contents.
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She walked out on the family when he was 13, to marry an eminent newspaper editor (later a politician) in their hometown Albany, N.Y. As played with abrasive charm by Ms. Dunagan, Ida is a loquacious fabulist, full of dubious tales of a glamorous past.
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Letters To the Editor: Re "Sandy Hook Suits Target Fabulist and Online 'Post Truth' Culture" (front page, May 24): Your article about Alex Jones and his InfoWars website that claims that the Sandy Hook shootings of all those innocent children was a hoax was shocking.
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Marrying dirty ambience and lo-fi techno to a fabulist aesthetic with track titles such as "Darkness, and the night, and the Wolf Whisperer," this is easily one of the most intriguing experimental electronic releases to emerge from the holiest city in the Muslim world.
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Whether the sort of people that regularly read neo-Nazi fabulist trash believed Obeidallah responsible or just wanted a new target to harass, Anglin gleefully provided the appropriate ammunition, and the radio host claims to have received a considerable volume of hateful messages and death threats.
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There he reportedly met with Michael Ellis, the man who had once been sent to find Nunes's fabulist drone pilot in Germany and who was now working for Trump's N.S.C. Ellis showed Nunes classified documents that had been gathered by another N.S.C. staff member, Ezra Cohen-Watnick.
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In a New Yorker piece last month, Dan Mallory, who wrote the best-selling thriller "The Woman in the Window" under the pseudonym A.J. Finn, was revealed to be a charming but highly manipulative fabulist who lied about having a Ph.D. from Oxford, among other things.
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The more mundane obstacle for the would-be fabulist of the peloton is that sportspeople are such unpromising material: The very things that make a professional athlete successful — single-minded dedication, self-belief verging on narcissism, a requisite lack of imagination — don't necessarily make for interesting characters.
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Federal prosecutors used it in 2007 to bring charges against Xavier Alvarez, a fabulist who had previously claimed he had been a member of the Detroit Red Wings, for falsely identifying himself as a recipient of the nation's highest military honor during a local water board meeting in California.
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Nicki was a drama major at New York's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, and while acting has never been her career, she is by far the most accomplished character performer in hip-hop, a fabulist who uses voice and attitude as creative weaponry.
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Raconteur or fabulist, Abe likes to amble down a twisting memory lane, telling tales about the monsters he fought in the war or the children's home in Wales where bees buzzed in a boy's head and a girl named Emma (Ella Purnell) floated as light as a leaf on the wind.
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A fabulist in many small ways, he was in possession of one big compound truth: to believe that the human and the humane are naturally the same is one of the worst lies we tell ourselves; to think that they might yet become so is one of the better stories we share.
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Lethem strives to craft a written approximation of Farber's still-life style, an effort he announces at the start as a failure, while Carol Mavor pens an impressionistic, fabulist vision of Farber as a crow flying high above his paintings, with numerous allusions to his work mirroring the painter's own panoply of visual references.
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Mr. Jones is a radio and online fabulist who has made millions by parlaying bogus "reports" of imminent civil war, government enslavement and mind control into sales of fish oil, "emergency survival foods" and Infowars-branded AR-15 components that purchasers can use to build a military-style rifle not readily traceable by federal authorities.
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Now he finds it's clever to be a fabulist, concocting phony facts about the trade deficit when talking to the Canadian prime minister — one of our closest allies — or inventing a story for donors about how Japanese officials test American cars by dropping a bowling ball on their hoods from 20 feet up to see which ones dent.
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Linton is just one incarnation of this disturbing trend: A woman who seems better suited to star on a reality TV show than to be a public political figure who is tied (even if only by marriage) to public service; a narcissistic fabulist with bad social media manners who lashes out at the less powerful who dare criticize her.
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Meanwhile, Umber Majeed's video installation "Hypersurface of the Present" creates a feminist meditation on the color green (haraa), taking its role in Islamic culture, and shaping a fabulist motif incorporating technological visuality through green screens, light therapy, and phallic conical shapes in physics, the body, and technical diagrams, critiquing patriarchal nationalism and commemorations of the dawning of Pakistan's nuclear age.
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And it is made yet more difficult by the lingering haze of talking-point narratives with which the Obama White House peddled this deal to the media, orchestrating the deal's praises via the "echo chamber" bragged up early last year to the New York Times magazine by Obama's former chief fabulist and deputy national security adviser for strategic communications, Ben Rhodes.
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