Sentences with phrase «duplicity of»

The claim is confusing but addresses the duplicity of companies like Exxon to manoeuvre around the public relations problem instead of dealing with it purely on the basis of the science.

Pettibon borrows freely from historical images and text to arrive at his often bitingly sarcastic drawings that expose the duplicity of our self - satisfied history and culture.

The duplicity of meaning inherent in the imagery of chain, a symbol of oppression yet also a metaphor for cultural linkage, lends complex narrative to the modernist forms.

Each in its own way is an attempt at eking out some ineluctable truth whether that kernel of knowledge be hidden in the history of language, the development of images as objects, the failure of various artistic tropes, or the duplicity of an object that serves both form and function and neither simultaneously.

Carousel, a work by the multidisciplinary artist duo Bolo (Saks Afridi & Qinza Najm), questions the duplicity of rhetoric in dictatorships and democracies, alluding to patterns of power cycles and ascendancy in human nature and human history.

Four exhibitions in a year is rare exposure for an artist in New York City, yet Yevgeniy Fiks (b. 1972 Moscow) has accomplished just that: The Lenin Museum, a solo exhibition exposing the duplicity of expediency and erasure in the instrumentalization of gay culture in Soviet Russia, currently on view at the James Gallery at the CUNY Graduate Center, and three collaborative projects, which confront issues of representation within historical practices of commemoration and identity formation within the public sphere.

x 11 in., 205 pp., 1161 color images Blake Rayne's paintings stem from the generative duplicity of words like Script, Folder, Application, Dissolve and Screen.

Which was more modern, his quietly modulated light or the duplicity of his card sharps?

As Zhenia and Mai each marry, the story and their lives are shaped by the duplicity of Zhenia and the valiant courage of Mai.

Later I would learn about the duplicity of politicians and the stubborn bravery of those left to suffer.

Kate's blunt honesty is in many ways the key to «Nebraska,» balancing both Woody's sad illusions and the smiling duplicity of almost everybody else.»

Angel, convinced of the duplicity of those around him takes up the cudgel that Raphael has released as gradually their positions on the curve are reversed.

The duplicity of a loving husband and father being a serial killer was so original.

«The duplicity of the NPP is so appalling.

Pushing the merger effort, Mahoney pointed out the duplicity of services provided by the Syracuse Industrial Development Agency and Onondaga County Industrial Development Agency in providing tax waivers.

«It shows a duplicity of character.»

The organisation has additionally been burdened by excessive bureaucracy, bloated staff and duplicity of offices.

They also know that people abhor the duplicity of their political leaders and public institutions as well as the power of «invisible forces» that oppress them.

Demagogues arouse people by exposing the duplicity of political institutions, that is, by «telling it like it is».

«When you have a duplicity of roles, they say it's unfair.

Let me not point out the duplicity of those statements.

Sometimes it would seem it's not been posted, only for me to be notified about duplicity of the same comment.

It is an opera about the fundamental duplicity of the human character; to depict this, Wagner puts the tenor's voice under the utmost stress to portray Tannhäuser's disjointed psychology.

Of course, the duplicity of the SPLC comes as no surprise to social conservatives.

However, to criticize liberalism he used Marxism's organic view of society, its theory of class conflict, its insights into social injustice, its intuition of judgment and disaster, and its sense for the duplicity of man.

Their Palestinian recipients will eventually reject them as signs of the duplicity of American policy.

In 1973 I met him again in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a broken man, living, he said, on social security, and bitter about what he called the greed and duplicity of men who had brought down his life's work and that of thousands of ordinary people.

I hope a future article will lay bare the full duplicity of this strategy, and will ask readers to forward it to the appropriate authority, whoever that might be.

Model and obstructor Nicole Ciesla has delivered particular instructions to de la Paz and Rodriguez to investigate duplicities of pervasive maskage and material seepage between skin and secondskin.

Not exact matches

Many of the things we do not like to see in people — duplicity, greed, malice, and selfishness — she was completely innocent of.

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US prosecutors describe Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad, known as Ali Sadr, as «a sophisticated, well - connected, international businessman with immense wealth and influence... [and] a history of duplicity».

I think for us, the reason that we ultimately chose to make that decision is that we live in a very sceptical and cynical world, and we function and live in a culture and in a time when people are wary of leaders, pastors and organisations; that there's a sense of duplicity or lack of transparency.

One of the most recognized features of the church by those inside but especially those outside is its propensity for hypocrisy and duplicity and its use of power to protect these.

I think the wolves of self doubt, duplicity, fear and deception are always with us and we have to face them and overcome them.

Since there is only one legal marriage contract on the government books in this family with the rest of the marriages being only spiritual cermonies to bind them each to one another, and there was no duplicity involved on the husband's part, I see no reason why they can not live the lifestyle they have freely chosen as consenting adults.

Deception, duplicity and leading a double life is the oldest trick in the book, says Gillan Scott, following the hacking of the world's largest website... More

The gingered bred saliencies do ever make revealing the melding of conditioned duplicities.

I know who you are, and I have my EYE on you, liar, representative of your own duplicity.

The present crisis in American Catholicism, I judge, is less one of dissent or duplicity than of distance.

Ultimately, this was (when I first followed these same incidents and patterns in 2009 - 2010) and is now all about issues of duplicity.

There's a common response to the problem of Christian duplicity.

After a year of struggling with doubt, duplicities and doctrine, I stepped down, left the church, quit my Gospel band and sat, miserable, in the wreckage.

Chad, words escape you because you have been shown to be a liar and have no defense against my extremely clear recitation of your duplicity.

This defining personality trait forced him to engage in various forms of self - deception, duplicity, gullibility, and paranoia.

In particular, Ukrainian Catholics resent what they see as bullying and duplicity on the part of the Russian Orthodox Church, particularly the Moscow Patriarchate, topics frequently covered here at First Things.

The Bishop of Buckingham accused the Church of «duplicity and hypocrisy» and said it has its «eyes wide shut» on homosexuality and relationships.

These biographical notes on the life of David acknowledge and illustrate David's moral ambivalence and even duplicity, and yet at the same time present a man who, as the sons of men go, is superior not only in the qualities of winsomeness and shrewdness, but also in the solid virtues that issue from a dominant integrity.

Paul J. Griffiths, professor of Catholic studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, recently wrote Lying: An Augustinian Theology of Duplicity (Brazos).

Such conversions were, however, always suspect among Christians throughout Europe, and when Lopez became implicated in an alleged Spanish plot to poison the Queen in 1594, old fears of Jewish duplicity and cruelty were seemingly confirmed.