Word: deceitful
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...power. But is that all? "You think I'm motivated by a love of real estate?" Queen Eleanor demands. All this verbal carnage must have deeper roots. Like light glinting off the edge of a steel knife, appearances in The Lion in Winter are blinding. The viciousness and deceit, the shell of anger and the hollowness of despair are masks the royal family wear to cloak the more profound hurt of rejection. If they cannot have love, Henry, Eleanor and their three squabbling sons will have hatred--not merely hatred, but complete and utter decimation of their victims and tormentors...
They justify Moon's personal wealth by saying that Jesus only appealed to the poor, so Moon was trying to appeal to the rich to make up for this. They also rationalized 'divine deceit,' a practice of saying anything to potential converts in order to get them to join--lie to them, threaten them, do anything, since Moon's way is the right way and the only way to salvation...
...intentionally vague but emotionally arousing word "regime," this statement clarifies neither the living conditions of South Korean citizens nor the nature of their protests against the government. The letter then refers to "Harvard's long history as a bulwark of U.S. imperialism," another blatant example of verbal deceit. Such a comment makes no relevant point about either Harvard or American history, and it has no function other than to incite the uninformed passions that the League seeks to exploit...
...sense of his own fallibility and a healthy questioning of his country's place in the world? Is he committed to openness and honesty in the execution of his duties? In short, is he the best Jimmy Carter could have offered the country after over a decade of deceit and misgovernment in foreign policy...
...Times, the past, heavy with deceit, seeps into the present, muddying and reshaping it. The one who can control "old times" by enunciating its secrets will emerge victorious in the power struggle whose prize is possession of the voluptuous Kate...