dissimulations

Everyone believes firmly in the illusion of the authenticity of their own desires, but a skilled novelist implacably exposes the tricks of desire—a web of lies, dissimulations, feints, and maneuvers of their characters—and seduces readers who then fall into narratives with the external and internal objects of their desire.

First Love & Other Obsessions Gary Percesepe 2011

It incorporated the semantic tap dancing that could imbue a single, uninflected word with a meaning that would affect the lives of millions, and it accommodated political dissimulations even Wheeler would come to regret.

LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

It incorporated the semantic tap dancing that could imbue a single, uninflected word with a meaning that would affect the lives of millions, and it accommodated political dissimulations even Wheeler would come to regret.

LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

I had already observed at Balbec that, side by side with that childlike sincerity of his face, the skin of which by its transparence rendered visible the sudden tide of certain emotions, his body had been admirably trained to perform a certain number of well-bred dissimulations, and that, like a consummate actor, he could, in his regimental and in his social life, play alternately quite different parts.

The Guermantes Way 2003

And, therefore, a number of subtle persons, whose eyes do dwell upon the faces and fashions of men, do well know the advantage of this observation, as being most part of their ability; neither can it be denied, but that it is a great discovery of dissimulations, and a great direction in business.

The Advancement of Learning 2003

For the second, a man must frame some probable cause why he should not do his best, and why he should dissemble his abilities; and for that purpose must use to dissemble those abilities which are notorious in him, to give colour that his true wants are but industries and dissimulations.

The Advancement of Learning 2003

“Even the great lords of the Dark cannot keep their true nature from colouring their dissimulations.”

Greenwitch Susan Cooper 2002

“Even the great lords of the Dark cannot keep their true nature from colouring their dissimulations.”

Greenwitch Susan Cooper 2002

“Even the great lords of the Dark cannot keep their true nature from colouring their dissimulations.”

Greenwitch Susan Cooper 2002

They are strangers to lying and dissembling lips; wherefore we cannot, if thus we be disguised, by them at all be discerned; our lies shall go for true sayings, and our dissimulations for upright dealings.

The Holy War 2001