Sentences with phrase «with dissimulation»

The Bible tells how Peter denied Christ and cursed and swore; how all the disciples forsook Jesus and fled; how later Peter, fearing the Jewish Christians, played the coward again, and led even good Barnabas away with his dissimulations.

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The remaining chapters are concerned with nineteenth — and twentieth — century historical precedents to the present situation, with personal and institutional renovation, and with distortions and dissimulations by such authors as James Carroll, Michael Phayer, Garry Wills, and Susan Zuccotti (writers of whom Mr. Dalin is also critical).

Also, I agree with James Scott's arguments that everyday acts of resistance — «foot dragging, dissimulation, false compliance, pilfering, feigned ignorance, slander, arson [and] sabotage — are reflections of a «prosaic but constant struggle» over «autonomy» (Scott).

He speaks his mind, and he does so with forthrightness and without dissimulation!

Webby's cognitive bias combined with the readiness to say anything that advances his strange little agenda makes it impossible to distinguish sincere belief from deliberate dissimulation.

We start with a scenario that is obviously wrong and get deluged with quite spurious dissimulation.

This writer pointed out that their semantic dodge was a distinction without a difference, and that despite their dissimulation, everything they proposed screamed «global government,» with global legislative, executive, judicial, and policing powers.

And surely the meanness and the mischief of prying into a man's confidential consultations with his legal adviser, the general evil of infusing reserve and dissimulation, easiness, and suspicion and fear, into those communications which must take place, and which, unless in a condition of perfect security, must take place uselessly or worse, are too great a price to pay for truth itself.»