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The adults pose defensively against possible picnic "deceit," the inherent treachery of which is unclear.
In short, the spectator remains unusually conscious of the relationship between performance and pretence, between disguise and deceit.
Women, worried at husbands' deceit, condemned wage-earning men as impotent, unable to fulfill marital duties.
There are discussions of pretence, exaggeration, and deceit in this context, and so on.
Although the existence of mimicry and deceit is arguable, several observations support that interpretation.
Williams suggests there are evolved communicative tendencies that regulate such expressions; hence, the issue of detecting lying and deceit becomes essential for her analysis.
In this play the train is an ever-present image of political deceit and relentless movement towards war.
But at least within the edicts of realism what we seek is truthfulness, not deceit.
They feel moral pressure to reduce the amount of deceit.
The more tortuous the deceit, the more the spy becomes necessary to unpick its complexity.
Otherwise, efforts at cultural competency are merely token measures and signify institutional deceit.
They use words of deceit, subtilty and ambiguity.
People are capable of deceit in their everyday lives, which is why evolution has also fitted us with ways of recognizing deceit in others.
On the other hand, they have been recognized as prone to deceit and manipulation.
Or else appearance may be blamed as inherently deceitful, and the condition of the knower is then seen as constituting that deceit, as well as being constituted by it.
