Word: conceal
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Mamet's men talk for a living, and they talk to keep from telling the truth. In their four-letter world, lying comes with the territory. As the Old Man says in Strindberg's Ghost Sonata: "Silence hides nothing. Words conceal." Two of the salesmen, Moss (Ed Harris) and Aaronow (Alan Arkin), sit in a bar, grousing about the real estate company. It is as much a part of their job as sounding stardusted with sweet reason while on a pitch. Moss sketches an idea for a theft of the office, and later tells Aaronow he is implicated...
First, the University tried to conceal the very existence of the course I settled...
...mount the plays, Mnouchkine, 53, "studied the Greek language for the first time in my life." But she rejected the use of classical masks, because they "conceal rather than reveal character," and chose instead Asian-style face painting. Although she adopted the Greek idea of a singing and dancing chorus, she pragmatically trimmed it from a classical 50 people to about 15 and substituted Indian sound and movement...
...University of California medical school in San Francisco, provides a slightly more elaborate definition: "One person intends to mislead another, doing so deliberately, without prior notification of this purpose, and without having been explicitly asked to do so by the target. There are two primary ways to lie: to conceal and to falsify...
President Bush lacks a coherent vision beyond his own reelection, said Dukakis, who made little effort to conceal his political bias...