Word: deceitful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Persons wanting to share their religious convictions must constantly deal with determining when it is most appropriate to share those beliefs. Often we may err on the tentative side; we are not unstereotyped as erring on the blunt side. Our failings are not a sign of hypocrisy or intentional deceit, but of our human imperfection in attempting divine service. We will continue to err, and we will continue to improve our sensitivity by hearing those like John Thompson voice their feelings when they are offended. I am sorry that he has been hurt so much as to believe that such...
PERHAPS A STUNNING production could lift the darker elements of the operetta to an ironical statement against the smarmier preconceptions of musical comedy. After all, everyone in this play gets what he wants only through deceit or treachery, not least of all Fairfax, who uses his good looks and gentlemanly heroic manner to impress every man and enrapture any woman who crosses his path. In this world, marriages are contracted via the forces of blackmail, not true love, and the essential work of all involved--seeing to the imprisonment, torture and execution of prisoners of the crown--is never questioned...
...that is just what Rajneesh's followers sought: they hoped to get away from ambition and meaninglessness and begin their lives anew. But their dream was short-lived, deflated by deceit and then defeated by disappointment...
Governments must encourage trust, and constrain their use of violence and deceit in order to avoid nuclear war, Sissela Bok said last night at an Institute of Politics Forum...
...said she rejects the argument that the government's use of "betrayal and deceit" deters a nuclear...