-
advised in The
Prince that a
prince must
become a "great
feigner and
dissembler."
Thomas Hobbes wrote in Leviathan: "In war,
force and
fraud are the two...
- "Culture of
dissemblance"
describes a "cult of secrecy"
practiced by
black women in the
Reconstruction era
American Middle West to "protect the sanctity...
- In the
theatre of
ancient Greece, the eirōn (Ancient Gr****: εἴρων, “
dissembler”) was one of
various stock characters in comedy. The eirōn
usually succeeded...
- Tomb of the
Cybermen when the
Doctor is
identified as "English" and,
dissembling,
plays along.
Though David Tennant speaks with a
natural Scottish accent...
-
Thoughts on the
Culture of
Dissemblance", Hine
introduced the
concept of a "culture of
dissemblance". She
defined dissemblance as "the
behavior and attitudes...
-
Kumale ole
Lemotaka was
given the name
Hinga by the Kikuyu,
meaning dissembler, a name
given to
those who
lived amongst Kikuyus but
spoke the Maa language...
-
bitter irony: In
opposition to this [modesty],
could I not have
acted the
dissembler? I hear that
there has even been an
edict sent forth, and a peremptory...
- Polk,
Khary (Summer 2013). "Malcolm X, ****ual Hearsay, and
Masculine Dissemblance". Biography. 36 (3): 568–584. doi:10.1353/bio.2013.0029. JSTOR 24570210...
-
Putin after Russia annexed Crimea were
engaging in at
least some form of
dissembling and that this
rallying developed as a
rapid cascade, with
social media...
- The
Dissembled Wanton is a 1726
comedy play by the
British writer Leonard Welsted. The
original Lincoln's Inn
Fields cast
included James Quin as Lord Severne...
