| 单词 | disingenuousness |
| 例句 | For all its undoubted sincerity, Oppenheimer’s letter displayed a brazen disingenuousness, perhaps its author’s chief character flaw. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This sonorous lower register gives voice to her bracing impatience with sentimentality and disingenuousness. Are Her Characters Seeing Things? Maybe. Maybe Not. 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Photograph: Prince Williams/ Getty Images Cynics may well roll their eyes at the hoopla surrounding Jay-Z's latest album, not least its disingenuousness. Jay-Z: Magna Carta Holy Grail – review 2013-07-06T23:06:33Z A bigger flaw is the disingenuousness that pervades the series. Review: ‘The Killing Season’ Examines Long Island Case 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Soon, Kelly establishes his own angle and approach, underscoring Savannah’s earnestness and Laura’s disingenuousness as the story jumps around San Francisco and then moves farther afield as the JT show goes big and then bigger. ‘J.T. LeRoy’ Review: Unpeeling the Layers of an All-American Hoax 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z His refusal to acknowledge the plain implications of what honesty on his terms demands suggests someone whose evident disingenuousness masks something even worse. Review: A Provocateur’s Recounting in ‘The Show About the Show’ 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Whatever Rule promised herself, “fact-detective stories” were her career, and the disingenuousness lingers. Too Close to Ted Bundy 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z With woman’s suffrage finally ratified, Margaret takes Nucky up on his offer to act as distaff power broker, introducing his favored mayoral candidate with an inspirational speech that’s more impressive for its utter disingenuousness. "Boardwalk Empire" recap: Women's suffrage arrives 2010-11-22T06:01:00Z Boyle is belligerent, defying Down's sufferers to picket his show, and accusing his antagonist of disingenuousness. Frankie Boyle 2010-04-20T22:00:00Z As I was reading Dominus's piece I detected some principled disingenuousness among her interviewees — I'm going to call it sexual virtue signaling. Monogamy, without the “-ish”: A humble and definitely not cool defense of the closed relationship 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z Seeing as a way of extrapolating hypocrisy, disingenuousness and doubt, she’ll notice the hydrangeas are plastic and mention it once, in passing, sorting the scene. Joan Didion Revisits the Past Once More 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z The awards-watching community is up in arms about this, with most noting a fair amount of hypocrisy and disingenuousness on both sides. The Carpetbagger: The Film With the Broken Embargo 2011-12-05T16:13:08Z Robert, whose infomercials are excerpted in the movie’s opening scenes, is the quintessential TV pitchman, at once blusteringly self-confident and transparently disingenuousness. | 'Father of Invention': ?Father of Invention,? With Kevin Spacey - Review 2011-10-13T23:24:32Z Perhaps the disingenuousness of the interview process was, ironically, leading me to honesty, to some useful detachment parenting. Motherlode Blog: The Preschool Parent Interview: An Elevator Pitch for My 2-Year-Old 2014-02-25T14:31:12Z In a way, it points to some disingenuousness on her part. This Week in Fiction: Curtis Sittenfeld on the Elegant Comedy of Hypocrisy 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z And earlier this year, Charles Spencer in the Daily Telegraph called him "bilious" "obnoxious" and "a braggart" who makes "playground barbs" with "smirking disingenuousness". Ricky Gervais 2010-07-17T23:08:00Z Between pieces, Meyer talked to the audience with an unaffected disingenuousness, getting laughs seemingly without meaning to. A firm bass: Edgar Meyer at the Kennedy Center 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Still, there are troubling passages: the handful of pages dealing with Vietnam, for instance, will remind many readers of Mr. Kissinger’s disingenuousness on that subject. In ‘World Order,’ Henry Kissinger Sums Up His Philosophy 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z The Wall Street Journal accused the novelist of disingenuousness: "He reads like a university don telling dirty jokes to astonish the groundlings while never letting them forget how well he knows his Milton." Lionel Asbo savaged, Martin Amis mauled by US media 2012-08-23T16:55:00Z Carter keeps trying to pretend he’s not really taking a side in the debates he keeps bringing up, but he’s bad at disingenuousness. The X-Files recap: Islamist terror and 'badonkadonk' 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z In a business that's so full of disingenuousness, it's comforting to have a critic you can always count on to tell the truth — a critic who will stand alone at the service to his truth. Readers respond after 'Boyhood' fails to impress critic Kenneth Turan 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z That's classic Fey: not-responding with a witty response, a drop of knowing disingenuousness that allows her to get the last laugh. You're Not the Boss of Her: Tina Fey's New Memoir 2011-04-04T10:10:00Z “Our schools are paid for by the fossil fuel industry for the most part, so there’s a little bit of disingenuousness.” Texas Weakens Climate Science Education Guidelines 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Saleh’s answer smacks of disingenuousness because “Cairo Conspiracy” paints such a bleak picture of power. Review | ‘Cairo Conspiracy’: A web of lies, spun in a world much like our own 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z To do so is the height of disingenuousness. Perspective | The sanctimonious baseball purists want to elevate Aaron Judge. Don’t let them. 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z I think there is a dishonesty, a disingenuousness, in conservatives pretending that they're just following the original meaning and not making value choices. How Justice Scalia created chaos: "Originalism" is just right-wing ideology in disguise 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z No one does disingenuousness like those who run college sports. Perspective | College athletes are learning their worth. No wonder the NCAA is concerned. 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z “Important questions about Ms. Raskin’s use of the ‘revolving door’ remain unanswered largely because of her repeated disingenuousness with the committee,” Mr. Toomey said in his statement Tuesday. Senate Republicans Stall Crucial Vote on Fed Nominees 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z “Important questions about Ms. Raskin’s use of the ‘revolving door’ remain unanswered largely because of her repeated disingenuousness,” Toomey asserted in a statement. Senate Republicans threaten to delay vote on Fed nominees 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Free of obligation, tired of the disingenuousness, Flores took his swing now. Perspective | Brian Flores is done pretending, and the NFL is losing control 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z It’s entirely appropriate that Mr. Manchin is being publicly admonished for his disingenuousness. Opinion | Mr. Manchin’s resistance 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z House Democrats, on the other hand, used that video as a jumping off point for calling out what they claimed were other examples of Big Oil's disingenuousness. Democrats seize on historic hearing with Big Oil executives 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z I fear that we don't have an adequate framework to make complete sense of the depravity and disingenuousness of what is taking place. Fascism is a mind-killer — and Trump's version is destroying Americans' grasp of reality 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z That Messi is still here, still trying, is the ultimate proof of the disingenuousness of that belief. Lionel Messi Tries to Slay His Ghosts 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z It is the height of disingenuousness for Olympic organizers to claim political purity and force it upon participants, to threaten punitive measures for those who again would — and should — use the Games to prove otherwise. Perspective | The ban on Olympic protests only empowers the protesters 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z Adversaries of the U.S. used it as proof of Washington’s disingenuousness. Trump pardon of Blackwater killers sparks outrage in Iraq 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z The same disingenuousness is at work on the Affordable Care Act. Opinion | The GOP is lying its way toward expanding the Supreme Court’s conservative majority 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z In one respect, the brazen disingenuousness and virality of the meme — and the way in which one led to the other — was unmistakably Trumpian. Donald Trump Jr. Is Ready. But for What, Exactly? 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z She also accused the president of disingenuousness in his focus on crime plaguing cities like hers, and suggested that he was campaigning against Democratic mayors to distract from his botched handling of the coronavirus response. Trump says he’ll send federal agents to Chicago and elsewhere 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z It carries a bit of disingenuousness, an unwillingness to see the issues beyond the scoreboard. N.B.A.-China Spat Shows Sports Isn’t (and Shouldn’t Be) Just About Games 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z But it seemed to me to be mostly an exercise in baiting, interruption, disingenuousness and grandstanding on the part of its writer. Bret Easton Ellis: ‘My ability to trigger millennials is insane’ 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z And to pretend the DNC’s disingenuousness and Smith’s journalistic credibility are mitigating factors here is to miss the point. Fox ‘News’ doesn’t deserve a seat at the table 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z The law in question is called the Unsafe Abortion Protection Act; an incredibly disingenuousness name as it suggests the legislation is about protecting women’s health, when it’s really about controlling women’s bodies. Brett Kavanaugh shows true colours in supreme court abortion dissent | Arwa Mahdawi 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z With that conceded and, hopefully, addressed, the left is in a far more solid place to expose and challenge the disingenuousness, hypocrisy and inadequacy of the culture-warriors on three main counts. From Trump to Boris Johnson: how the wealthy tell us what ‘real folk’ want | Gary Younge 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z Someone goes on a left-leaning site, they can see some level of disingenuousness, same way that they can on a right-leaning site. Anthony Scaramucci thinks he would have stopped Donald Trump’s attacks on the press 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z Did they not think how their disingenuousness might affect any victims? If #MeToo is to work, we must call out the men we love | Sonia Sodha 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z NBC’s righteous response to Kelly’s remarks rings of disingenuousness, seeing as the brass knew of Kelly’s past before they hired her. Megyn Kelly: how TV's $69m star fell from the top 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z Rice called Collins' speech announcing her vote a "paean to disingenuousness and incoherence." State Department provided 'clearly false' statements to derail requests for Clinton docs, 'shocked' federal judge says 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z She also retweeted a post slamming Collins' speech as a "paean to disingenuousness and incoherence." Swing-vote senators face major political blowback, and potential high-profile challengers, after casting pivotal Kavanaugh votes 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z It’s bad enough that we have to endure disingenuousness from our politicians, but when their lack of candor aims to make us second-guess our own judgments, that’s a whole new level of offensive. Opinion | What ‘Fear’ and the anonymous op-ed say about America 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z Theirs was a professionalised and systematic disingenuousness that offered a protective flank for a movement that reached its apotheosis on a murderous afternoon in Charlottesville last August. The consequences of Steve Bannon's ideas need to be interrogated, not just his words | Jason Wilson 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Mrs. Clinton’s disingenuousness about why she lost is every bit as dishonest as Mr. Trump’s disingenuousness about his inaugural crowds. Starbucks Chief Won’t Stay Hot 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z Beyond the disingenuousness, there is some hypocrisy at work here. Opinion | The Trump administration’s plan to make people disappear 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z If the government shuts down it is the fault of the Republicans 100% I am sick to death of the lies and disingenuousness of the GOP. Government Shutdown Begins as Budget Talks Falter in Senate 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z Democratic lawmakers have long recognized the disingenuousness of that argument and have introduced various bills seeking to end the industry’s tax benefit. Missed opportunity: GOP tax bill could have lowered crazy-high drug prices 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z “This attempted eleventh-hour accommodation is neither credible nor believable, and in fact is yet another example of the DOJ’s disingenuousness and obstruction.” Donald Trump’s FBI feud reignites 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z Given the widespread testimony from Rohingya refugees about what led them to flee, critics have accused the Nobel laureate of disingenuousness. Rex Tillerson Tells Myanmar Leaders to Investigate Attacks on Rohingya 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z Unless and until one of them does, their standing with protesting players is the height of disingenuousness. Perspective | NFL owners wouldn’t give Colin Kaepernick a job. Now they’ve co-opted his movement. 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z I won’t impute disingenuousness to Trump’s most angst-ridden critics; their fears are not irrational, and their expressions of alarm are, I assume, genuine. Opinion | If we’re laughing at ‘covfefe,’ things must not be so bad after all 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z For many years it was assumed to be a diatribe against Bob Dylan, the “lie-la-lie” in the song’s chorus a comment on Dylan’s artistic disingenuousness. Simon and Garfunkel – 10 of the best 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z “They are making horrible policy for naked political advantage based in disingenuousness,” he concluded. Trump Supporters Applaud Immigration Order as a ‘Welcome Change’ 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Yet, that — fining Brown for breaking its rules against how one can celebrate a touchdown, while using his celebration to promote its game — isn’t the height of the NFL’s disingenuousness. In trying to control player behavior, NFL’s hypocrisy knows no bounds 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z To liberals, this looks like hypocrisy and disingenuousness. The Other Half of America 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Thank heavens for Anthony Kennedy who was able to see through the cynicism and disingenuousness of those who were attempting to thwart the constitutional right of women to make their own reproductive decisions. Supreme Court Strikes Down Texas Abortion Restrictions 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Newton is many things, but he lacks one trait that many quarterbacks in the league possess: disingenuousness. Letters to the Editor 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z Vox’s Ezra Klein, who has earned respect as a progressive policy wonk, wrote that their argument had moved from “disingenuousness” to “farce.” Four things to watch at the final Democratic debate before Iowa 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z But GM’s puffery is also typical of an industry deeply habituated to public disingenuousness as part of its strategy to survive the relentless onslaught of politicians and their regulations. GM Speaks Untruth to Power 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z There is disingenuousness in baseball’s American-only way of comporting yourself, too. Baseball’s manufactured sensibilities 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Lowell, responding to the government’s opposition to the venue change, referred to the “disingenuousness that pervades” the government’s position and characterized part of their arguments as “grasping at straws.” Judge to decide on Menendez bid to move trial to Washington 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z His precise parsing of an argument suggested indecision or even disingenuousness and sometimes brought him ridicule. Mario Cuomo, New York Governor and Liberal Beacon, Dies at 82 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z But in Washington the word is even more irksome, combining the puffery of its common use with the disingenuousness of the politician’s claim to forthrightness. Washington’s favorite f-word Unanimity is not only spurious, it is injurious when purchased at the price of compromises that suggest disingenuousness. Unanimous Supreme Court comes at a cost The real mystery of her present disingenuousness is that there's really nothing shameful, in and of itself, about the kind of wealth the Clintons have accumulated. Hillary Clinton has an income inequality problem. It starts with her own income 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z What culture, generally, finds much more difficult is in identifying whose disingenuousness we're actually looking at, and whose violation. Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus and the rape generation 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z And public disingenuousness on trivial issues like this one compounds the tendency, especially among young people, to distrust voices of authority on everything else. Klein: War on Weed 'Ridiculous and Costly' 2014-01-04T16:50:24Z Yet McAdams’s antagonists have forever seen the story from the D.C. conference as just one sign of the disingenuousness and subterfuge they find in his work. The Kennedy Wars 2013-11-05T11:05:25Z “It is the height of disingenuousness for these same plaintiffs to now complain, like children denied dessert, that the settlement does not benefit enough the individuals who brought the lawsuit.” N.F.L. Deal on Use of Images Divides Retirees 2013-06-04T23:51:45Z The disingenuousness goes on: they chose to be political. Rogoff and Reinhart should show some remorse and reconsider austerity 2013-04-26T21:12:09Z He defines disingenuousness, and he seemed more regretful that he was caught than remorseful that he had cheated. Lance Armstrong and Oprah Winfrey: Forked tongue, meet silver tongue 2013-01-20T23:13:57Z That was a lie, obviously – but when disingenuousness is perfected to an art form, its sheer audacity is hard not to admire. Michael Heseltine: 'I would have liked to be prime minister' 2012-11-25T20:00:03Z The explanation for this festival of disingenuousness on both sides isn’t all that hard to find. A ludicrous debate on energy 2012-10-17T15:15:00Z With the disingenuousness of childhood I satisfied the rules of the school and my own conscience by carrying home these two books, and no others, on alternate Sundays for certainly two years. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z All such meetings are surrounded by hyperbole, for which my own trade shares its responsibility, disingenuousness and even dishonesty. Fiction of the EU Summit's 'Facts' 2011-12-16T00:27:05Z The draft paper should get a D rating for desperation and disingenuousness. Buttonwood: The road to self-deception 2011-11-10T09:32:56Z On the other hand, Frank, embarrassed both by the sense of disingenuousness, and a desire "not to take the thing too seriously," seemed to the Squire ungracious and thankless. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 2011-11-03T02:00:15.113Z I could not descend to that disingenuousness I had often counselled others to scorn. The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy 2011-07-22T02:00:15.747Z Tip was not only unconvinced by these unblushing assertions on the part of a friend whose word he had never doubted: he was terribly abashed and troubled by their manifest disingenuousness. The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:29.180Z It is very well done and most satisfactorily exposes Godwin's ignorance as well as his disingenuousness. Letters of David Ricardo to Thomas Robert Malthus, 1810-1823 2011-06-09T02:00:21.460Z That his Ministers were culpable, as well as unwise, in advising the prorogation, is certain; and when the next elections came on they paid the penalty of their disingenuousness. The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 2011-03-23T02:00:23.527Z But there's a world of disingenuousness locked into his statement. GOP: No government shutdown if you give us what we want 2011-02-15T17:51:00Z The last thing to have entered her mind would have been to attempt to mitigate her offence by lying; she would not even palter with disingenuousness. A Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell 2011-01-27T03:00:42.663Z There was great clarity to her statement, the kind of personal insight that made the disingenuousness of my own professed stance on the subject of hospital “perks” all the more obvious. Doctor and Patient: How Does Your Hospital Room Make You Feel? 2010-12-16T19:35:07Z If there is disingenuousness, it is in the wide-eyed tone she adopts for the enterprise. Eat, pray, cash in 2010-08-13T23:02:00Z But Reid's disingenuousness is over the top, as well, because he's rushing for a vote on a weak bill, without taking the time to hammer the GOP for their intransigence. Where is Obama on bank reform? 2010-05-19T14:42:00Z “It was compromised by, really, disingenuousness and actions of deception and manipulation,” he said, citing the secrecy surrounding the board’s findings and other issues. Cardinal Has a Mixed Record on Abuse Cases 2010-05-06T02:22:00Z In 2000 many constitutional scholars were disturbed by the court's intellectual disingenuousness in Bush v. Justice Stevens and the Benefits of a Boring Court 2010-04-10T03:19:00Z "It is—it is, Margaret," rejoined the youth, as he rose, dissatisfied at what he supposed a trait of disingenuousness or secret mystery. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 This sort of disingenuousness is so common on both sides, that it may be said to be the besetting sin of controversialists. The Church of England cleared from the charge of Schism Upon Testimonies of Councils and Fathers of the first six centuries So much for the disingenuousness of the narrator. The Death-Blow to Spiritualism Being the True Story of the Fox Sisters Yet there can be no doubt that disingenuousness is to them a second nature. Village Life in China A Study in Sociology Dear me!" said the proxy chaperon, with shameless disingenuousness; "I was really beginning to be afraid you were left. A Romance in Transit But in this flattery there was no want of sincerity and no disingenuousness. Lives of Celebrated Women But Llorente, with a disingenuousness altogether unworthy of an historian in a matter of so grave import, has given us no knowledge of the sources whence his information was derived. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 If once we admit disingenuousness into the mind, the intellectual life is no longer serene and pure. The Intellectual Life Sir,—In my first article I endeavoured to show that the charges of disingenuousness brought against me by your critic not only missed their aim, but possessed a boomerang quality. Are we Ruined by the Germans? But with singular obtuseness, or with pitiful disingenuousness, he does his best by such words to shut out from view the real question at issue,—namely, the exegetical value of Patristic Antiquity. Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford If so, there has been a foul piece of disingenuousness on the part of the writer. The Ethnology of the British Islands One of the characteristics of the discussion now going on between the advocates of gold monometallism and those of bimetallism is the disingenuousness of the former. The Arena Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897 If he affected to ignore it, as an objection already answered, there would be disingenuousness in the affectation. The Intellectual Life Can't you see how you are wasting a part of your mental energy, so to speak, on this slight disingenuousness? The Lonely Way—Intermezzo—Countess Mizzie Three Plays But disingenuousness is a charge that never could have occurred to Boswell, whose veracity is the prime quality that has made him immortal. James Boswell Famous Scots Series He was tortured by the disingenuousness of his own mind. Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange When such interpretation is forced, it becomes intellectually and morally an evil—it accustoms the religious public to logical distortions, and it nourishes a disingenuousness that easily becomes immoral. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Doctor Johnson has the disingenuousness, in his Folio Dictionary, under the word Sonnet, to cite that Sonnet at full length, as a specimen of Milton's style in this kind of Poetry. Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace The office boy prefers Captain Kidd to Strindberg; not because he is a boy, but because he is human and has not yet learned the trick of disingenuousness. When Winter Comes to Main Street There is another, and a special, explanation to be given of the disingenuousness that appears in his writings. Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply The result of great self-delusion for so long a period was a condition of mind in which she was practically unable to distinguish between candour and disingenuousness. Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange It affords an exhibition of gross disingenuousness on the part of the Boer commissioners. Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 Which of them concocted plans that brought on the suicidal wishes of another, a more indirect and sophisticated form of murder, and by its disingenuousness a worse form. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais Another point to avoid is disingenuousness, such as "accounts are opened for the convenience of customers." How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal Correspondence In saying this, I have no intention of accusing so considerable a man of that disingenuousness which is almost the characteristic mark of heresy. Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity The disingenuousness of this remark is patent to her. April's Lady A Novel Watch against any fallacies in your ideas which may arise, not from disingenuousness, but from allowing yourself in moments of feeling to think vaguely, and not to attach precise meaning to your words. Daily Thoughts selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley by his wife "I think Mr. Wilkinson spoke of having met you," the girl said carelessly; which was positive disingenuousness, for she remembered very well indeed. White Ashes Not from any disingenuousness; but he had a feeling that he liked to keep that meeting of long ago to himself. Mary Gray To accuse Jack was to confess his own disingenuousness. The Drummer Boy If Royston had known how bitterly she despised herself for disingenuousness he would have been amply avenged. Sword and Gown A Novel You must understand that a good share of papa’s anger arises from the idea, not altogether groundless, that Mr. Nicholls has behaved with disingenuousness in so long concealing his aim. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle But it is, so to speak, a generous disingenuousness; the heat and momentum of sincere admirations, not the shuffling fear and flattery of the constitutional or patriotic historian. The Victorian Age in Literature Surely this writer might have paused before indulging so freely in charges of 'discreet reserve,' of 'disingenuousness,' of 'wilful and deliberate evasion,' and the like. Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" "I did not think I should be so tired," Lucia answered, and the friendly dusk hid her blush at her own disingenuousness. A Canadian Heroine, Volume 3 A Novel In spite of all that has happened, our mistakes, our bluster, our occasional lapses from complete disingenuousness, the Afghans still like us. Essays in Liberalism Being the Lectures and Papers Which Were Delivered at the Liberal Summer School at Oxford, 1922 The gross disingenuousness, the palpable quibble in this argument, need no exposure. Rome in 1860 The example, too, on children, was most injurious; it schooled them in deceit and disingenuousness. Another World Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah Oh, my disingenuousness!—Then he talked again of 'Saul.' The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 No one could take offence at a man for laughing immoderately; he was not chargeable with disingenuousness, as in the case of one applauding to excess. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character He was an unusual man, a new type, this senator from Fraser, with his alternating candor and disingenuousness, his prompt solutions of perplexing problems. A Hoosier Chronicle He reflected, with a smile of incredulous contempt, upon what she had said about killing herself, and wondered, in his anger, how she could be so blind to her own disingenuousness. A Daughter of To-Day On the contrary, with astounding audacity and disingenuousness, he tries to make it appear that suggestions for peace were offered by Germany and rejected by Great Britain. New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index With a little ingenuity and disingenuousness one might make a douanier of them. Since Cézanne It was not exactly disingenuousness, but rather the first dawn of maidenly reserve and modesty that reddened her cheek in a manner her mother did not fail to observe. A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago There are watchful enemies who are on the look-out for proofs of disingenuousness and bad faith. The Oxford Movement Twelve Years, 1833-1845 A moment after, I heard her sustaining the reproaches of her governess, and explaining her failure to answer with an admirable lucidity and disingenuousness. Tono Bungay The same influences were exerted in the sister island, and the Protestant archbishops in Ireland issued a joint letter warning the faithful against the "disingenuousness" of the book. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom There was nothing of the artificial about her person, and very little disingenuousness in her character. The Soul of the Indian Those who were absolutely incredulous about Cosmo's prediction, and genuinely desirous of allaying the popular alarm, issued statements in which, with a disingenuousness that may have been unintentional, they tried to sidetrack his arguments. The Second Deluge But the worst of all is the Archbishop's heartless disingenuousness and moon-like nodes towards his kind old master the King. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge But for the terms in which the President has disposed of his third topic,—the Kansas difficulty,—we can scarcely characterize their disingenuousness and meanings. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 "I thought we could get him out better that way," he explained, and the doctor, who had to befriend a great many concealments in his practice, silently spared Bartley's disingenuousness. A Modern Instance She paused, blushing again at her own disingenuousness. Fan : the story of a young girl's life But to-night, with a disingenuousness which I could not condescend to be guilty of, the noble Lord has assumed that the statement referred to the condition of the Christian population. Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, Volume 1 A temperament like this might have placed a less firm man under the imputation of disingenuousness; but such an imputation could not rest upon him. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858 I sent a note to Peel to-day observing upon the disingenuousness of Grant's speech. A Political Diary 1828-1830, Volume II The quibbling, the concealment, the disingenuousness which this method of using the Bible involves are not conducive to Christian integrity. Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People His memoirs, dictated to Count Montholon and General Gourgaud, at St. Helena, have great value, after all the deduction that, it seems, is to be made from them, on account of his known disingenuousness. Representative Men To the unbeliever I can say, “Never yet in any work upon the Christian side have your difficulties been so fully and fairly stated; never yet has orthodox disingenuousness been so unsparingly exposed.” The Fair Haven I tried to smile; but as I am an incompetent actor my grimace was a proclamation of disingenuousness. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel She could not blame him, for she saw how like disingenuousness and hypocrisy her conduct must look to him. Love Me Little, Love Me Long He had taken one more step in disingenuousness—a small matter. Born in Exile On this loneliness she threw the blame of those faults which she painfully recognized in herself—her frequent insincerity, her speeches and silences calculated for effect, her pride based on disingenuousness. The Emancipated She got out of the difficulty by means of a little disingenuousness. Demos It was the introduction of simple honesty into relations commonly marked—and corrupted—by every form of disingenuousness. Our Friend the Charlatan Where are the men of spirit? the men of action? the upright, downright men, that Heaven sends to cure us of our disingenuousness? Love Me Little, Love Me Long Through amorous mists he still endeavoured to discern the real Alma; he reflected ceaselessly upon her character; yet, much as she often perplexed him, he never saw reason to suspect her of disingenuousness. The Whirlpool Now, is it in ignorance, or through disingenuousness, that Mr. Froude has penned this argument regarding exceptions? West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas It is a pity that a suspicion of disingenuousness and affectation should force itself upon one's thoughts in connection with the French enthusiasm over Moussorgsky; but it cannot be avoided. A Second Book of Operas ‘Is Lady Constantine at home?’ asked Swithin, with a disingenuousness now habitual, yet unknown to him six months before. Two on a Tower He behaved with a pusillanimity and disingenuousness which deprived him of all claim to respect or pity. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 There is no perfidy with him, no deceit, no disingenuousness, no shade. White Lies We should not then have to blush for the disingenuousness of the most devoted worshipper of speculative truth, for the servility of the boldest champion of intellectual freedom. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 But it is disingenuousness that makes him delightful. Yet Again If now we err on the side of over-suspicion, it is the German's little weakness for patriotic disingenuousness that is most to blame.... War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war The disingenuousness of this proclamation is as remarkable as its hypocrisy. A Book of Scoundrels But we cannot acquit him of that unconscious disingenuousness from which the most upright man, when strongly attached to an opinion, is seldom wholly free. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 |
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