| 单词 | falseness |
| 例句 | It was such a convincing illusion that even I, who knew the essential falseness of it, felt oddly comforted. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z If an art is true, if an art is free of falsenesses, it is, a priori, beautiful.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z But all the time he was laughing and going on about what he would do and how he planned to live, he was aware of a falseness in his voice. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z She spoke in a low, pacifying voice, stranger for being formal, but saved from falseness by the soberness of her face. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z But the visitor was aware of his falseness. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z When the camera pulls back, their portrait is echoed by an enormous painting, of a woman’s unreadable face, concealed by a veil of sorrow, or falseness, or maybe just distance. “The Americans” Finale Was Elegant, Potent, and Unforgettable 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Now, in a moment when many Americans are reëxamining their country’s history, the falseness—the dissonance—of that heritage is becoming harder to ignore. The Meaning of Names at Princeton and Yale 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z But when it errs, it errs on the side of literalness rather than falseness, of plainness rather than pretension. Review: ‘Bosch’ and the Art of the Pure Police Procedural 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z And a daughter, especially with the innocence and matter-of-factness of youth, will see right through falseness. Why I’m an out, bisexual dad 2014-04-10T11:50:00Z “Acting with even a trace of falseness would be exposed by the terse simplicity of Ms. Baker’s dialogue,” he wrote. Awkwardness as the Avenue to Success 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z “Westworld” has a story to tell, but it’s also about storytelling, constantly forcing us to recognize the falseness of the stories that are given to us and the stories that we tell ourselves. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 9: You Broke My Mind 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z Some find the “faux” offensive because it implies a falseness to the performance, as if their drag could not possibly be real drag. Workin’ it! How female drag queens are causing a scene 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z Acting with even a trace of falseness would be exposed by the terse simplicity of Ms. Baker’s dialogue. | 'The Aliens': At Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Two Slacker Outsiders 2010-04-23T02:31:00Z His way of attacking the falseness was a relief to me. The Dumbledore of Clowning 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z Those cracks having now become chasms, Wohl can use the falseness of Simonesque stage comedy to dramatize the falseness of her real subject, which is not divorce but marriage. Review: In ‘Grand Horizons,’ Marriage Is a Long-Running Farce 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z After all, no matter what the note says, this is what Jared will see: “The very foundation of your identity is based in falseness and lies.” ArtsBeat: ‘The Americans’ Recap: It’s All About Work/Life Balance 2014-03-13T03:00:03Z Beneath its falseness, it was somehow genuine, suggesting the possibility of a different kind of success buried within conventional failure. Review: In ‘Ms. Blakk for President,’ a Winning Losing Campaign 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z Not talking about it is also a way to avoid a falseness — the falseness of thinking poetic language can be applied to dressmaking. Azzedine Ala?a: The Master of the Female Form 2010-12-09T00:04:00Z Harbach's generosity is both that, and a lesson in the falseness of appearances. 'The Art of Fielding': Win, lose, improvise 2011-09-21T22:59:04Z How do you avoid preciousness and falseness when grown-ups tell a story from the child's point of view? "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close': hard to watch, but worth it 2012-01-19T20:41:04Z Kirch is talking about the transparent falseness as the salient feature of these essays and of reality TV, and also of the claustrophobia of the cult of personality. Have personal essays gotten too personal? 2013-03-17T17:00:00Z Bezos establishes a dichotomy between caregivers and protagonists, then sets about demonstrating the falseness of that division. The Idealized, Introverted Wives of MacKenzie Bezos’s Fiction 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z He hated insincerity, was allergic to falseness, distrusted suavity, and fled from even a whiff of like-mindedness. Review | The sourest, meanest mouth in the history of portraiture 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z "In the real world, spies are caught in a doomed web of falseness, and all for a very questionable purpose that often leads nowhere," says Fields. Spies coming in from the cold for TV shows 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z She walks that tough line of high melodrama, demanding emotional investment in stories that nakedly display their own falseness. REVIEW: Lana Del Rey's Ultraviolence Is the Album We Need Right Now 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z There is a fundamental layer of falseness and contrivance to all public images: Celebrity culture relies upon that layer not being disrupted. Team Kardashian-West, With Release of Taylor Swift Clips, Is Primed for Battle 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z In the end, the impression his film leaves is not of falseness exactly, but, eerily, of fetish. ‘The World Is Full of Secrets’ Review: Teen Tales of Terror 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Some actors go the extra mile for realism, eschewing the falseness of makeup for real, physical transformation. Patience and prosthetics: what were the most punishing actor transformations? 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Her preoccupations were nostalgia and melodrama, and strategic falseness became a kind of calling card. Review: Lana Del Rey, a Character No More 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Slices of life, however accurate, collect into a kind of glutinous falseness when shaved too thin and heaped in a pile. Review: Will Death Never Come in ‘Peace for Mary Frances’? 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z And knowing that, you can’t help feeling the falseness of the effort to wring droplets of sarcastic pride from disasters retooled as comedy. Review: John Leguizamo Goes for Easy Laughs in ‘Latin History’ 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z I think a harsh truth can be compassionate, in the sense that it speeds us along from falseness to truth. George Saunders's Humor 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z There is a kind of falseness to that. ArtsBeat: Julian Fellowes Overcomes His Scruples and Looks Back at Season 2 of 'Downton Abbey' 2012-02-20T04:47:01Z From the beginning, he wanted to rid his art of falseness and redundancy, so that what remained was not a deliberate but a “helpless statement.” Review | Seeing Jasper Johns: A seminal artist’s career is celebrated and illuminated in two cities 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z When you’re right on top of a cast, as you necessarily are at space like the Jerwood, falseness and self-consciousness register fast and damagingly. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Big Ideas in Small Spaces 2012-01-31T16:09:34Z The townspeople’s stiff, unnerving affect stresses the language and, above all, its falseness — the string of lies, gossip and conjecture that will ultimately lead to tragedy. Review: A ‘Crucible’ for the Modern Mob 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Much of the falseness comes down to the tricky process of adapting a more expansive book into a restrained runtime. Review: The new 'Hunger Games' movie sings a villainous melody 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z No matter how tenuous his story, massive crowds supported him, wanting him to win even if they could see his falseness. What Zadie Smith's new Dickensian delight tells us about the Trump base 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z Similarly, the anonymous creator left clues revealing its falseness; this is not uncommon among those who make and spread deepfakes, yet want to stay on the right side of the law. Deepfake videos are so convincing — and so easy to make — that they pose a political threat 2023-04-15T04:00:00Z In my experience, the absence of official documents generated a sense of falseness, a lack of authenticity and a kind of voided identity. A bilingual California poet honors migrants — both the living and the dead 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Questions about local social media groups, social media content moderation and the falseness of online news and information were asked to 719 registered Washington voters. Washingtonians split on social media regulation, WA poll says 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Over 15 years of experience with the military in policing roles has shown “the falseness of the paradigm that the army was going to solve the problems,” Delgadillo said. Mexico president to bypass congress to keep army in streets 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z “There’s no falseness in him. He’s a very special man.” CEO Tilden hands off a transformed Alaska Airlines as it emerges from the COVID crisis 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z A sense of virtue is intermingled with these products’ falseness; if it’s not the real thing, you don’t have to feel guilty about it. How Nothingness Became Everything We Wanted 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Here are a few assertions that shouldn’t be accepted in responsible debate because their falseness is indisputable: Vaccines cause autism. Column: I never 'agree to disagree' — I just tell you when you're wrong 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z Though “Terrace House” panelists may frame such calculations as a form of falseness, projecting the image of put-togetherness isn’t necessarily a lie. Commentary: Netflix's 'Terrace House' has 'no script,' until fans and panelists turn on its stars 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z “At 58, I find myself, for better or worse, performing,” Owens said, admitting that sometimes this shows a “falseness.” Boyhood and theatrics mark Paris Fashion Week men’s shows 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z For the images’ creators — and many in their audience — the falseness barely matters. Doctored images have become a fact of life for political campaigns. When they’re disproved, believers ‘just don’t care.’ 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z "There is no substantial falseness in any of this." Jo Swinson in court bid to stop SNP leaflet 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z I think there is something to learn about the falseness of narratives. Opinion | Meghan Markle and My Tabloid Obsession 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Colvin knew she was torn: “What is this hardness in me? This falseness?” she asks in her journal. Review | Why one correspondent gave all — including her life — to report the horrors of war 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z “It is different from the falseness of pop, and because of this, perhaps, the youth accept it.” Putin on Rap Music: It’s the Drugs, Not the Swearing, That Really Bothers Him 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z She means to get things done, no falseness, no compromises. Review: In 'Kings,' a novice politician wears incorruptibility like armor. How many dings can she take? - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Giving viewers an old cliché about what it is artists do, it calls attention to its own Hallmark-card falseness, highlighted by its goofy, peach coloration. Bruce Nauman, the Artist’s Artist 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z “All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things.” Opinion | The Earth in Sadness 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z “My client never molested Mr. Simpson, and he will not be extorted. We look forward to a trial in open court to reveal the falseness of Mr. Simpson’s allegations once and for all.” Former foster son sues ex-Mayor Ed Murray and Seattle, claiming defamation 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z “He was kind and generous and gruff and grumpy, but he did not tolerate any kind of falseness,” said his daughter Eron Hamill. Lit Life: Sam Hamill, ‘the dean of Northwest poets,’ left major mark on Northwest publishing world 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z I don't like falseness in male politicians either. Opinion | ‘They Were Never Going to Let Me Be President’ 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Then in the slinky standout “Waiting for the Break of Day,” he hits again: “You see some politicians/ You hear the things they say/ You hear the falseness in their positions.” Review: Sting and Shaggy collaborate on sunny reggae album 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Strictly Come Dancing could not have survived 15 seasons on knowing irony alone: to read camp, one must recognise how artificial so much in our lives is, and then revel in its glittering falseness. Rising camp: how an arch sensibility got political 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z The falseness, prejudice, and malice in Trump's tweets about McCabe would be subject to dissection and exposition using agressive adversarial courtroom procedures, not the lunacy of the cheering section at a Trump rally. Andrew McCabe, a Symbol of Trump’s F.B.I. Ire, Faces Possible Firing 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z “I call it the falseness of community engagement,” says Denise Johnson, her voice rising with emotion at the frustration of decades of failed promises. Roads to nowhere: how infrastructure built on American inequality 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z And it confirmed my feeling that many efforts to reach out to Trump voters fail because they are sugarcoated to the point of condescension and falseness. Opinion | One man’s moving attempt to educate his neighbors on Islam 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z But it’s a falseness—and that’s an authenticity problem—that everybody he knows is not as perfect as him because we’re all for amnesty.” The Republicans Still Look Small 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z But it’s a falseness, and that’s an authenticity problem — that everybody he knows is not as perfect as him because we’re all for amnesty. Transcript of the Main Republican Presidential Debate 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z In certain instances, the conservator will protect an image’s over-all compositional effect while also seeking to acknowledge the newness, the falseness, of what she has done. The Art of Conservation 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Pathetic,” in this context, refers to pathos, and the fallacy to something sham; the phrase might best be translated from the Victorian as “emotional falseness.” Talk About the Weather 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Novelists pride themselves on using artifice to get at the truth, but sentimentality is all falseness, emotion over-boiled by grandiosity of expression and served up rank and limp. Mary Gaitskill, Master of Desire 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Though the tone is superficially amiable, Max’s real disgust with literary falseness is felt on every page. The Diminutive Genius of Max Beerbohm 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z He described what he took to be the show’s falseness and insensitivity to nuance — before praising its first episode as the best sitcom pilot he had ever seen. Eddie Huang Against the World 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Katz has, in essence, turned that journalistic falseness into a search for onstage truth. Philip Seymour Hoffman theater prize is seeking submissions 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z And a lot of this falseness is rooted in a divide between the academic disciplines. Getting Beyond the 2-Degree Threshold on Global Warming 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z There, he also noted that falseness of Mr. Obama’s earlier claims that he saved Detroit. Michael Moore on Obama: ‘He’s been a huge disappointment’ 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z "Demonstrating the falseness of this claim, we have speakers from the Scottish alcohol industry who support this policy from an ethical position." Experts argue for drink price plan 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z We should pursue higher truths: let us shed the falseness of apparel, together, and writhe naked on this carpet. Four more New York Times columnists and Malcolm Gladwell get really high: what could possibly go wrong? 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Yet the Savoy experience illustrates the falseness of the choice between reinforcing basics for desperately struggling students and exposing them to the arts. An A for arts As soon as I say this, the falseness seems to melt away as people reveal their own best practices and insecurities. Can Honesty Save A Startup? 2013-08-30T13:12:00Z Sometimes, on the other hand, it is the lover’s falseness which drives her to enter a convent. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z He was humbled both by his falseness and his foolishness. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis 2012-04-08T02:00:21.793Z Percivale had not been neutral—he had seen, had known the falseness of the monstrous charge; Claud thought he would like to be in his place now just for four-and-twenty hours. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z But while leaving the falseness of the taste for grotesques an open question, there is something to be said for them without straining fact. The Grotesque in Church Art 2012-03-27T02:00:18.973Z But the truth or falseness of socialism does not affect the theory of history. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z Only say you forgive me my hasty belief in your falseness, only say that you love me still, and that I am not too late to make amends. It May Be True, Vol. III (of III) 2012-03-20T02:00:14.013Z But this objection opposes every step of women's progress, from the harem upwards, and every step has proved its falseness. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z She had read in his face his meanness, his falseness, his cowardice. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z In the case of Eton the historic details and educational statistics prove the falseness of the statement. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the "Pathetic fallacy." Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things 2012-02-20T03:00:15.843Z Relieved of ghostly fears, her mind quickly regained its balance, and instinctively took refuge in the falseness which had become second nature. A Little Wizard 2012-02-15T03:00:38.160Z The toothsome smile, so redolent of falseness, was gone; the hatchet lines had curled themselves up into a mask which really resembled bonhomie. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z By fainting thus inopportunely, she had accentuated the falseness of the position. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z Its total lack of privacy, its rough brutality, its dirt, its undisguised greed, its unconcealed jealousies and hatreds, its falseness, its pure selfishness, and its treachery are all painful on a close inspection. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z The falseness is in the person who states, or induces the belief, that it is a rose. Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things 2012-02-20T03:00:15.843Z In act iii all the prisoners are released by ransom, except Bertoldo, who thereupon bewails the falseness of his brother the King. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z The falseness and foolishness of our enterprise was now more apparent to me in looking at them; but were we not all in the same ridiculous position? What Shall We Do? 2012-01-29T03:00:11.167Z Lady Sweets and Dominies are respectfully being urged into the cellar, and for those who will pay to learn the falseness of this world’s shows the freight cars are receiving Ben Davises. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z Of course when the falseness is later unmasked as snake oil, the heroic reputation of the expert is shattered. Economists: A Profession at Sea 2012-01-19T07:00:14Z He knows their 'treachery and falseness,' for they only act by abuse, dissimulation, and deceit, as they have done for the last hundred years past, and will still be doing a hundred years hence. The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria 2012-01-10T03:00:13.777Z He was magnificently made up, so well that my impression of his falseness came by instinct rather than by reason. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z Recollecting my connection with the town-poor during this period, I saw that one cause which prevented me from helping them was their insincerity and falseness. What Shall We Do? 2012-01-29T03:00:11.167Z To this class also belongs all significance of mere colour, as yellow is the colour of falseness, and blue is the colour of fidelity. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z The falseness of the Indians to all their engagements, as I afterwards learned, was signally displayed towards my more fortunate comrades. The Captive in Patagonia 2011-12-27T03:00:10.803Z But an incident which occurred almost as soon as the train had passed, shewed me the falseness of this conclusion. By Right of Sword 2011-12-22T03:00:24.563Z Nothing that had happened since she entered the Grey Sisterhood had opened the girl's eyes to the cruel falseness of the woman, as I saw it. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z I realized at that moment all the falseness and absurdity of my position; I realized also how foolish it is to be afraid of prejudice and the opinion of gossips. Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 2011-12-19T03:00:39.830Z He gazed earnestly at that woman whose beauty had set his heart on fire, and tried to find in the expression of her face something that betrayed the falseness of her heart. San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams 2011-11-14T03:00:22.247Z It claimed me for a victim—and now it's freezing her life's warmth to the falseness of Orient pearl. Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-11-12T03:00:36.860Z After all, James was her husband, he had some right to accuse if he thought proper; the falseness of his accusation did not take away his right of explanation; he should be made to see. The Whirligig of Time 2011-11-04T02:00:23.063Z Then I do wish I could speak and warn my mistress of their falseness. Daisy the autobiography of a cat 2011-10-25T02:00:24.887Z And this victory he won, not by dint of clamour, or falseness, or obstrusive self-assertion, but by the force of his own intellectual powers, his unsullied integrity, his admirable character. Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ 2011-10-14T02:00:24.730Z Listen and don't get mad—the grandest woman I ever knew once trusted in falseness, and suffered. Ann Boyd 2011-09-29T02:00:14.220Z All the trouble in the world arises out of falseness. In a Mysterious Way 2011-09-25T02:00:17.377Z We may guess the distress and perplexity of the people this night; but it was somewhat alleviated when the falseness of the alarm was discovered. An Historical Narrative of the Great and Terrible Fire of London, Sept. 2nd 1666 2011-09-22T02:00:23.960Z And so for their wickedness and falseness they were punished with blindness for the rest of their days. Snowdrop and Other Tales 2011-09-12T02:00:31.553Z I danced in my grief and amazement till I could recover my breath, and then I danced and cried out against the falseness of this world; and the boatmen derided me till they fell down. The Second Jungle Book 2011-09-10T02:00:30.870Z “Tyrannically held down by a strong hand”; product, falseness and meanness. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z But I soon learned that I must take falseness and double-dealing for granted. The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z For at that moment she saw as by a flash of lightning the falseness of her marriage and her widowhood. Throckmorton 2011-07-25T02:00:15.900Z But anyhow I have found out its falseness, and I will not. The Hearts of Men 2011-07-19T02:00:20.477Z It never quite escapes this inherent falseness and confusion in its fundamental assumptions. Religion and the War 2011-07-18T02:00:22.307Z Officers spoke with hushed voices even yet of how the great heart of General Washington had been all but crushed by this man’s falseness. Peggy Owen at Yorktown 2011-07-17T02:00:35.830Z At first she declines to believe in his falseness; but when a conviction of the truth is forced upon her she refuses to drive him from her heart. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z And although it was true that Letty's desertion suddenly wrecked the hopes of her lover, it seems hardly probable that such an unstable being as Julius would have taken her falseness so seriously. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z If he did but know the terrible sacrifice she was about to make for his sake, he must surely pity her, and no longer taunt her for her seeming perfidy and falseness of heart. The Night Riders A Thrilling Story of Love, Hate and Adventure, Graphically Depicting the Tobacco Uprising in Kentucky 2011-06-23T02:00:24.513Z But if the historical record teaches us anything it is the essential falseness of this assertion. The Coming of Coal 2011-06-17T02:00:17.207Z Yet he nobly vindicates his claim as a reformer by the lash he applies with no measured hand to injustice, falseness, and hypocrisy, under whatever guise they may appear. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z Why not be content with the Elvire, who substitutes belief in truth, in your own soul, for the falseness which you fear? The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z If all the world should believe in this man's identity with Colonel Brand if I did not believe it, I would try to prove his falseness. Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z It seemed to me that there was a falseness in this ingenuous mood that sat but ill upon one so contemptuously proud. A Diplomatic Woman 2011-06-10T02:00:18.297Z But the intermediate position is essentially a false position, and nothing can long disguise its falseness. The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography 2011-05-29T02:00:07.883Z Our answer is, Chateaubriand’s writing is vitiated by a vein of unreality, of falseness, running through it. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Dejectedly he declares: “There is falseness even in the calm air and the sunshine, and I feel that happiness has no place in my lot.” Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z To me it is a torture, and the falseness of my rôle wearies me to such a degree that I must consider what measures I can take to counteract it. Royal Highness 2011-05-05T02:00:22.363Z But be undeceived; I am going to discover to you my falseness, though instead of reproaching me, I persuade myself you will shed tears of joy. Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix?d a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes 2011-04-28T02:00:15.367Z Hypocrisy, pretension, falseness—against everything which has that lack of simplicity so fatal to true life he sets his face. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z Such absurd inconsistency with the truth of things well illustrates that taint of lurking falseness which to such a degree vitiates all Chateaubriand’s work. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z But when she stooped and tried to kiss me, her falseness roused a sudden madness in my breast. First Person Paramount 2011-04-07T02:00:19.233Z Now from Greek tragedy this kind of falseness is almost entirely absent. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z No, every trace of falseness is strange to him, his attachment to her, his anxiety about her, are sincere--but---- What use to grieve over it? Asbe?n From the Life of a Virtuoso 2011-02-27T03:00:30.780Z No secular laws were concerned in this case; not the sham and falseness of society, only truth--the open truth. Withered Leaves. Vol. II. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:17.540Z She meant to fight; he recognised the falseness of their position, and felt, as he looked, exceedingly awkward. A Practical Novelist 2011-02-19T03:01:38.957Z I insisted to myself that the only ground of my sudden distaste for their society lay in vexation at their falseness. The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z The candor of your words would denote the falseness of the accusations raised against you. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z Imitation of the form of great models, without the substance of thought which underlay them, led to a general unreality and essential falseness of mental life. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z "No, dear, but hundreds, thousands, are learning in preparation for that moment of choice—the falseness and futility of material possessions." She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z The falseness of style everywhere noticeable reaches its climax in a gallery on the left near the entrance, containing two stone figures which appear to be looking down from it. Stained Glass Tours in France 2010-12-30T03:00:24.760Z Must not all such words be words from the Father of Lies, seeing that they are words of falseness? Rachel Ray The falseness and insincerity were too obvious to admit of any explanation in the world but one. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath It was the truth, yet the falseness of such speech, from her to him, appalled her while she spoke. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece He says nothing which he does not think, falseness is a vice unknown to him. The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise How is she to betray her lover's falseness? Faith and Unfaith And whoever suggests improvement, whoever shows the faultiness and falseness of what has been in vogue, must be prepared to pay the price and endure misunderstanding, calumny, opposition, and ill-usage. The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II There was falseness in his attitude, something unnatural. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath You can then judge of truth or falseness by the unerring instinct which is one of the gifts of true womanhood? Her Season in Bath A Story of Bygone Days After all, it was an exotic piece of architecture, and evoked an atmosphere of falseness, the falseness of an Indian gong in a Streatham hall. Carnival Your honesty is a blind to hide the falseness beneath. What a Man Wills Alas for the fidelity of servants when exposed to temptation; but is not falseness ever the attribute of servitude? The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West There was no falseness, no duplicity in her. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath The vanity of life, the deceitfulness of women, the falseness of love, the impossibility of happiness, the passing away of all that is lovely and of good report, are old, old, old texts of complaint. Maids Wives and Bachelors That night in bed, she thought of falseness and treachery and cried herself to sleep. Carnival But, sitting by the tumbling blue of waves, Mourn to your billows on the foamy sands The falseness of the god who grasps the storm! Blooms of the Berry "And when I am dead I charge you to take my heart and bear it to the lady Ettard in a silver dish, and tell her that her falseness has slain the faithfulest of lovers." Historic Tales, Vol. XIII (of 15), Part I The Romance of Reality. King Arthur Do you think that I am a stone," he said, violently, "that you tell me the story of your falseness so quietly, as if it were a tale that I should like to hear? Under False Pretences A Novel Foolish judges accuse such juries of "Perjury;" but it is clear enough, Gentlemen, where the falseness is. The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the ‘Pathetic Fallacy’. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century But not on that account did she meditate falseness. Lady Anna The principles laid down in that address, in the midst of much fine rhetoric, had begun to be shown in practice, and Webster employs argument and invective to lay bare the falseness of Jefferson's professions. Noah Webster American Men of Letters And I had suffered a good deal from Oliver Trent's wicked falseness. Brooke's Daughter A Novel I only wonder that so few broken heads and dislocated joints bear witness to the falseness of such philosophy. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 Tales of the man’s father, of his falseness, of his manifold perpetual treacheries, rose before me from all that I had heard and read, and joined on with what I had just experienced of himself. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) Her age, her gravity, the falseness of the position, the terrible Geoff, all floated away from her thoughts. A Country Gentleman and his Family Nor could Philip justly complain of the hollowness and falseness of these professions of friendship. Alexander the Great Makers of History Imagine Him, again, agreeing that a man shall continue to be the prey of evil tempers, of covetousness, of jealousy, of pride and falseness. The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching With regard to the latter notion, the absence of Sir Robert Peel, who is travelling in Italy, is a conclusive proof of its falseness. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III The Sultan, persuaded of the falseness and faithlessness of woman, had sworn to put every one of his wives to death in turn after the first night. Music: An Art and a Language She accepted the statement without demur, as she accepted everything—neither denying nor disputing, but apparently indifferent to its truth or falseness. The Romance of a Plain Man She felt the falseness of Jasper, and knew that he loved her himself, but she realized the impossibility of telling this to the nephew who believed in him. Tales from Dickens That is imputing falseness, and greed, and dishonour to the girl I love. Marion Fay Show them to others to prove her falseness and ingratitude. At the Crossroads The italics in the passage are mine, for they make abundantly clear the falseness of the old view, and show how much the question needs reopening from the common-sense standpoint of opportunity. The Truth About Woman It would have been so only had the recently finished foregrounds been as accurate in detail as they are abundant: they are painful, I believe, not from their finish, but their falseness. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) The falseness or deficiency of color in the works of Mr. Landseer has been remarked above. Modern Painters Volume II (of V) "This is not true," said Hampstead, who was moved beyond his control by the double falseness of the accusation. Marion Fay On the other hand, are not cowardice, falseness and meanness, etc., reproduced with quite as much certainty in other families? The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study I care nothing for wickedness or falseness either. Is He Popenjoy? When you have cleansed your eyes from the falseness of the flesh, and come face to face with truth, it is beautiful. The Soul of a People The sense, however, in which they thus use the word "wrong" is merely that of falseness or inaccuracy in � 6. Modern Painters Volume II (of V) One word from him, and the poor sad lady would have banished from her heart the long-staying, unwelcome guest—belief in his falseness, and closed it away from her forever. The First Violin A Novel This gives us no right to accuse her of falseness, for this art is natural, instinctive and imposed by custom. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study Even in her falseness there was something magnanimous. The Wild Geese I cannot help saying that I am sorry for the woman, in spite of her falseness; she is utterly crushed with her misery.' Lover or Friend Furthermore, debatable and double-edged ideas, about which the reader is in doubt whether they be false or true, fall under the same category of falseness. An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams But Miss Alison soon proved her own capabilities and the falseness of these prophecies by taking her place in the engine-room and managing its workings with the ease that a child spins a top. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III We fight for right and truth, for Kultur and civilization, and human progress, and true Christianity, against untruthfulness and hypocrisy and falseness, and un-Kultur and barbarism and brutality. Gems (?) of German Thought By every law of man he was right, and yet all the woman in her cried out against this decision as falseness to some other law imperfectly understood, but clamorous for recognition. Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker As he raised his heavy-lidded, insolent eyes to me, I thought I had never before appreciated the utter falseness of his visage as I did at that moment. The Maids of Paradise For we possess an innate love of truth and an aversion to falsehood, so that what delights us when it seems to be true becomes disagreeable and unpleasant when its falseness is made manifest. An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams Every day the falseness of her attitude towards Wallace Sutherland weighed more heavily upon her honest heart. In Orchard Glen In compensation he is hospitable, generous, sincere and averse to falseness and intrigue. My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. The Brothers Karamazov The radical falseness of the etymology is patent. Jewish Literature and Other Essays If it be to be falseness to my Lord's bed, it shall be so; if it be both, in the name of God, be it both, and where586 you will and how. The Fifth Queen Crowned Write no more trite phrases; you have been repeating them for three years, and every day proves their falseness. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) He has been false to Julia, to Valentine, to the Duke, to Thurio, one falseness leading to another, till he is in a wood of the soul, tangled in sin. William Shakespeare The lady might have romanced indeed, with glib falseness gilding picturesque invention, and he would not have detected it. Ringfield A Novel Only too soon the poet was made to understand the radical falseness of his definition. Jewish Literature and Other Essays Perhaps this obvious falseness of expression only relieves the weight of his stern earnestness of purpose and makes us the more ready to join in his constant denunciation of everything hollow and pretentious. The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) Guests were invited, and they brought handsome gifts; rancour and falseness were forgotten—they all became drunk together, and they thrust their doubled fists into each other's faces—which was a sign of good-humour. The Sand-Hills of Jutland The scenes in which the disguised Julia witnesses her lover's falseness, and the scene in which the play is brought to an end, are deeply and nobly affecting. William Shakespeare There is room for all in this large universe—room for everything, except downright lies and falseness. Life and Matter A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's 'Riddle of the Universe' What clearer evidence of the falseness of your accusations could be desired? The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura You come again to my house to scorn at me after my humiliation, and you have not the courage to own your falseness. A Tar-Heel Baron George might have declared, without any absolute falseness, that his father had borrowed no money of him. The Bertrams In the third act, before the fury of the constant has died down upon this treachery, the French King adds another falseness. William Shakespeare Her heart reproached her for the falseness of her tongue, and this had been a passionate impulse of atonement to him for the wrong that she had done. A Beautiful Alien All those who knew him can bear testimony to the falseness of the accusation. My Recollections of Lord Byron He pondered every word of his conversation with the Morgans, and fancied that he saw indisputable evidence of the Doctor's falseness in his talk about whisky. A Tar-Heel Baron What the reader sees he must see directly and without insulation, else falseness and partiality are immediately apparent. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 The falseness of the saying was clear to him in the light of his own experience. The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure You must feel the falseness of such a use of the word. A Beautiful Alien In all of these histories the King acted a part, in which his bad temper, bad judgment, falseness, and duplicity were equally conspicuous. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I She had sworn, because of his falseness, that she would never see this man again, and here he was calmly proposing a night journey into Bohemia, and she was actually listening to him. The Secret Witness But the falseness of the Mohammedan was soon revealed to them in a strange way. With Spurs of Gold Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds It seemed that, even after all these years, that time of love and falseness held some tender recollection still. A Queen's Error It is necessary to analyse the current conceptions of wealth, capital, and money—the childish conceptions of them—in order to reveal their falseness, stupidity and folly. Manhood of Humanity. She instantly understood what it meant, and upbraiding the girl with her falseness, quitted the place, and lost no time in telling her son, but first she took the precaution of hiding his gun. Wood Magic A Fable It was a merry invention of news during the siege by men who were hemmed in from all other news; and so the grosser the falseness the greater the fun. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back No wonder that it is precisely in our age that falseness itself became flesh and blood, and even genius! The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. History has exposed the falseness of the slander; but a statesman ought not to owe his vindication to research in archives. William Pitt and the Great War How natural—and amid all its falseness—how true, is that naïve and contradictory story! Robert Elsmere Anna's falseness would surely break his heart, and Alma winced at the thought of his pain. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 Thus died Brynhild who had been made a mortal woman for her disobedience to the will of Odin, and who was won to be a mortal's wife by a falseness. The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths Nothing could be more grossly or wantonly false, and we must seek, by the utmost openness and candor as to our real aims, to convince them of its falseness. In Our First Year of the War Messages and Addresses to the Congress and the People, March 5, 1917 to January 6, 1918 Besides, to taunt Pitt with falseness to his principles of the years 1782–5 is to ignore the patent facts that he advocated very moderate changes in the representation. William Pitt and the Great War Samuel refuses and has to leave, the father cursing him, Recha bewailing her lover's falseness. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas The night after the debate, he gave Brougham a heavy fall, and exposed his glaring inconsistency and falseness. The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) And he told her how forgetfulness of her had come upon him, and he begged her to forgive him for winning her in falseness. The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths The falseness of friends, the blindness of his people, the malice of their leaders,—all these things seem more than he can bear. Mornings in the College Chapel Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion The result is a confusion of all the functions of the society, and a falseness in all its mores. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Hearing of Samuel's falseness, he first swears vengeance, but, mollified by his daughter's entreaties, he only bids him marry Recha. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas You hate falseness, and you can love revenge.” Romola In the Peace Stead no crime had ever been committed, no blood had ever been shed, no falseness had ever been spoken. The Children of Odin The Book of Northern Myths She strived to impress me with the vanity and falseness of all European creeds, as well as with a sense of her own spiritual greatness. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure Anyone who knew Dad ever so slightly would testify to its falseness. The Fifth Ace When they awake from their trance and find themselves still alive and unharmed, Teut in a flash realizes Hiram's falseness and the hollowness of his religion. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas The thorough falseness of the position weighed on them both. Chance A Tale in Two Parts He felt that the odor of his utter falseness tainted the pure air about him; he had been false all round,—to himself, to his love, to his ideals,—even in a baser way here. Lodusky These paints are only fit to fling out of the window, together with the fellow who ground them, their crudeness and falseness are disgusting! The Unknown Masterpiece 1845 There could be no harm in one glance at it; a glance which would prove instantly its falseness, just as she knew it in her heart to be at best a forgery. The Fifth Ace He was not the man to remind a woman of her falseness, but something in his eyes made her falter and lower her own. Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden The minister, alarmed at the unexpected result of his own agitation, was now convinced of the falseness of the whole proceeding. The Superstitions of Witchcraft Then I seized Lorand's arm with my one hand, and with the other held before the wretch's eyes the evidence of his cursed falseness. Debts of Honor They lacked entirely the affected manner and falseness of speech and demeanour, so common among the natives who are constantly in contact with Europeans. In the Forbidden Land Jestingly though she spoke, there was in her a remembrance, as mournful as a thing so long ended could be, of that early friendship, whose falseness had been her loving, heart's first blight. Olive A Novel That mind which is with treason fraught Seeks to tame men by falseness; Men say ‘tis little that it takes such a balance to disturb.’ The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade) If two lines only be apparent, the string is free from falseness; but if a third line be produced, the contrary conclusion must be assumed. The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators Their falseness and hardness she was more ready to believe hallucinations of her own mind, rather than really glaring faults of character in them. Hubert's Wife A Story for You So may my very faults In their gross falseness prove that I am true, And by that falseness gender truth in you. Songs Of The Road If instead of "absolute goodness" we say "absolute love," the falseness and deadliness of this conception appears even more unmistakable. The Complex Vision They seem so full of lazy joy, or unutterable rapture, that they belie her belief in the falseness of all things. April's Lady A Novel Yet there was a certain falseness in his humility, for he was proud of having read the work. Clayhanger It is no longer necessary for abolitionists to contend against the blunder of pro-slavery,—that the colored people are inferior to the whites; for these people are practically demonstrating its falseness. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 When led to execution, the King of Mexico exclaimed, 'O Malinche, I have long known the falseness of your words, and have foreseen that you would give me that death which, alas! South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure Magnanimous creature, she kept their falseness a secret, and ceased to probe their shallow depths. The Promised Land The ultimate standard for a man is his own individual conscience, and neither the constraint of affection, nor the authority of numbers, can atone for falseness there. Friendship But its hollowness and falseness they feel at times most keenly. Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. He set the sword’s point till his breast, The pommel till a stone; Thorough that falseness of that lither lad These three lives were all gone. Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series Seventeen noxious qualities of the wolf are adduced—his ravenousness, his cunning, his falseness, his cowardice, his thirst for robbery, amongst others. German Culture Past and Present Despise your cowardice; condemn whate'er You note of falseness in you anywhere. Watch Yourself Go By It is to be wished that this question also could be approached free from all falseness of modern feminist sentimentality. Women's Wild Oats Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards What can you avail, coining lead for us who perceive its falseness? The Lion's Brood They seemed to him a coarseness, a crudity of the soul, and almost inevitably linked with secret falseness. The Call of the Blood Beyond Good and Evil" Nietzsche says flatly that "the falseness of an opinion is not for us any objection to it: it is here, perhaps, that our new language sounds most strangely. A Preface to Politics Then on her lips, the dear lips that know no word of falseness, he lays his kiss. The Child of Pleasure It is to be wished that this question of divorce could be approached free from the falseness of the old prejudices of religious intolerance and of sentimentality. Women's Wild Oats Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards The alarm of fire had reached Reuben's; and although the report of its falseness followed immediately, Mrs. Ducklow's inflammable fancy was so kindled by it that she could find no comfort in prolonging her visit. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 These words prove the falseness of the apocryphal ravings. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition I didn't deserve to warm my hands in its glow; but I forgot my falseness for a moment, and let whatever was good in me flow out in gratitude. Everyman's Land She had many charms, and he had seen few defects; but a motive for falseness in the matter of the telegram would suggest itself to his intelligence. The Heather-Moon Toward the close of his reign, having become convinced of the falseness of the charges made against the Christians, Aurelius became once more tolerant and philosophic. A Smaller History of Rome He began to feel the falseness of his position. The Long Night But his whole conduct showed the falseness of any such impression. James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters The falseness of the King's position was made intolerable by the dilemma in which he was now placed. The French Revolution A Short History Having thus detected the hollowness of your sympathy, and the falseness of your pretended friendship for my husband, I must request you to refrain from further meddling in this matter. Raftmates A Story of the Great River That she should waste a moment's resentment on the conduct of a person so unimportant as poor Westy, showed her in a flash the intrinsic falseness of her position at Lynbrook. The Fruit of the Tree The most cursory study of history would reveal the falseness of this contention. Secret Societies And Subversive Movements It was she who drove me out of the house and made me exile myself to the Antipodes to escape her falseness. The Silent House This history has Vanity Fair for a title, and Vanity Fair is a very vain foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falseness and pretentions. History of English Humour, Vol. 2 Presently these outside must have become acquainted with the falseness of the rumour for there was a tremendous rush into the building, until, in three minutes, it was packed to its utmost limits. The Mark of the Beast The alarm of fire had reached Reuben's; and, although the report of its falseness followed immediately, Mrs. Ducklow's inflammable fancy was so kindled by it that she could find no comfort in prolonging her visit. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) On learning this, the mind flies to hysteria, with its accompaniment of diabolical falseness, for an explanation of her adventure. Historical Mysteries The utter falseness of this statement is shown by the facts. The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 2, No. 10, March 10, 1898 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls A thousand and one reasons are assigned for failure, but never is it attributed to a falseness of the omens--anything but that. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir "I hate him for his falseness, but he's a born gentleman all the same." Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' Small, unassuming, and even frail, he gave the impression of being infinitely weary of the world and its fighting, its falseness, and its empty pomp. I Married a Ranger Standing so, she looked like a priestess of old defying all falseness and traditional wrong. The Place Beyond the Winds Many would have taken my all, and given me back only deception and falseness. Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance It is for you to prove the falseness of this charge. Model Speeches for Practise The falseness of other religions.—They have no witnesses. Pascal's Pensées All I can say is, that these people of Benares feel their joy, comfort, and satisfaction in swearing to the falseness of Mr. Hastings's representation against himself. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) Her immediate glance at the matter did not go beyond the falseness of men. Phineas Finn The Irish Member No man or woman," says Arthur Helps, "was ever cured of love by discovering the falseness of his or her lover. The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future To meet danger with courage is manly, but to be insensible of it is brutal stupidity; and to pretend insensibility where it cannot be supposed is ridiculous falseness. Dialogues of the Dead As, therefore, in things that are is found a certain non-being, so in things that are is found a degree of falseness. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition By what right do they deride the falseness of the Pagan Gods? Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense And yet only this morning he had been congratulating himself, among his other successes, upon her favour, and had laughed inwardly at his own falseness,—his falseness to Violet Effingham,—as he did so. Phineas Finn The Irish Member Nobody could tell what she was thinking of, and I felt inclined to run pins into them, and to destroy those mirrors of falseness. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3 She entered a magic circle, and was borne round the ceaseless course with a rapidity which threw a deceitful lustre on every object, and concealed the falseness of its colors. The Rivals of Acadia An Old Story of the New World It is his falseness and treason to the dead. The Ethics of George Eliot's Works I see no possible way for us to keep out, because I know the ignorance and falseness of the German leaders. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II She knew it, and falseness of it burned through, her like so much corrosive acid. 'Way Down East A Romance of New England Life The tap-root of the letter is a colossal vanity; the bitterness of it, wounded egotism; the falseness of it, a self-righteous pose of ineffable superiority as of a superman. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 2 There swept over him with bitter realism a conception of the falseness of the position into which he was permitting himself to drift. The Enchanted Canyon "Oh, if you would only try to open my cousin's eyes to his friend's falseness--I know he's false, but Adrien is so blind." Adrien Leroy He sighed and thought how strange it was that he should almost resent it, coming as it did in contrast with Gila's falseness. The Witness The falseness of his libels," says Gerbier, "he hath since acknowledged, though too late. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 Putting falseness quite on one side, quite out of sight and consideration, an honest mistaking of feeling appears wonderfully common, and no mistake has such frightful results—none can. The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 He glanced up at her, and she, conscious of her own falseness, thought he looked astonished. Come Rack! Come Rope! Every reader of taste knows the falseness of the criticism, and how heartless the polished cynicism that could dare it. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions A horror of his beauty, his deliberate fascination, the falseness of him, came over her. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Whether it were better to be alone, feeding on the bitterness of her own thoughts, or to be comforted by the fulsome flatteries and odious falsenesses of Sophie Gordeloup, she could not tell. The Claverings The falseness and the calculations!—why how can you, who are just, blame women ... when you must know what the 'system' of man is towards them,—and of men not ungenerous otherwise? The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 But when the situation arrives and has to be dealt with—what a mess, what falseness, what wrenching, what sickly smoothing, what ranting, and what terrific tediousness! Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 "I'm sitting here for grief," returned Roy; and Tynn was not sharp enough to detect the hollow falseness of his tone. Verner's Pride And well I guess it does but cover up Enmity, hanging falseness between our souls, And buy at a dishonest price the mouth True nature hath for thee, to speak thee fair. Emblems Of Love For Harry, with all his faults, and in spite of his present falseness, was a man. The Claverings And then I have a pretension to speak the truth like a Roman, even in matters of literature, where Mr. Kenyon says falseness is a fashion—and really and honestly I should not be afraid ... The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the "pathetic fallacy." Selections From the Works of John Ruskin Bourdaloue more than half a century before had taunted the free-thinkers of his day with falseness and inconsistency in taking sides with the Jansenists, whose superstitions they notoriously held in open contempt. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) The most cursory study of naval history is enough to reveal the falseness of such an assumption. Some Principles of Maritime Strategy Think of it, Harry; there can be no falseness to one who has been so false to you. The Claverings And surely loving silence was better than tinkling words of falseness. The Brimming Cup There was in his nature intense reserve, but no falseness, no insincerity, not an atom of pretense of any kind. The Laurel Bush Diderot opens ingeniously with a list of the propositions that state the supposed evils of luxury, and under each proposition he places the most striking case that he can find in history of its falseness. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) Who are the critics of the falseness of artifice in the Play? Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies Trickery and falseness were abhorrent to him, and now the woman he had worshiped stood revealed in her deterrent reality. Ranching for Sylvia She remembered Neepoosa's philippic against the white women who were coming into the land, and realized the falseness of her position and the way in which he looked upon her. A Daughter of the Snows Of women he used to say that their inconstancy was an antidote to their falseness; for if a woman could but persevere in what she undertook, all the fair works of men would be ruined. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series Browning even hints at the close that "one lesson" to be had from his work is the falseness of human estimation, fame, and speech. Robert Browning Is the element of chance, which both destroys the falseness of the evidence by means of Borachio's talk, and prevents it from being known by Dogberry's, especially fitting? Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies It was a shocking thing, accusing me with Martin, and taunting my husband with the falseness of the forthcoming entertainment. The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill But for the most part historical study seeks knowledge only; and how it attains its aim, is shown by the falseness of what passes for history. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 The case between them may, he thinks, be stated in this question, "How do we rise from falseness into truth?" A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) They are clever intriguers; send into my house newspaper articles, letters, and these good-natured people, to make me soft-hearted; act in public as my friends, to make me confide again in their falseness! The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 He thought of her desire for the life that he knew so well, and how he could, while granting every wish of her heart, yet protect her from the shams and falseness. When A Man's A Man If I married Martin and went away with him, I should always be thinking of the falseness of my position, and that would make me unhappy. The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill West had seen her, and either through deliberate falseness or his characteristic fondness for shying off from disagreeable subjects—Queed felt pretty sure it was the latter—had failed to reveal the truth. Queed I believe, on the contrary, that we often do things with a special view to the doctrine of consequence, and that our intentions are frustrated by the falseness of the doctrine. Flames It is only by reason of its falseness and inconvenience that it becomes absurd. Homes and How to Make Them In fact his very falseness and his follies seemed to make him even dearer to the infatuated woman than his loyalty and his love-making had ever done. Love Romances of the Aristocracy Tales of the man's father, of his falseness, of his manifold perpetual treacheries, rose before me from all that I had heard and read, and joined on with what I had just experienced of himself. David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona Her knowledge of his falseness stood between them like a wall; blindly she struggled to keep it staunch, not letting her rushing pity undermine and crumble it. Queed He detected in it the first note of falseness in her character. The Divine Fire And if the falseness of his wild narratives was established, was it a far cry to Betty Gallup's suspicions and accusations? Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper The preacher traces it to four sources: indecision; falseness to his own convictions; the taint of the worldly temper of his day; and that priestly bigotry which forbids inquiry, and makes doubt a crime. Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters He achieves too much of a pulpit complacency—therefore of condescendingness—therefore of falseness to the deep intimacy of good literature—when he begins to moralize about time and the universe. The Art of Letters Lord, I am faint and tired; my soul is sick Of all the falseness, all the little aims, The weary vanities, the gasping joys, The slow procession of this satiate world! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Your falseness might escape them; but if there was any truth in you, she compelled you to be true. The Divine Fire Pepys having been himself often permitted to take liberties with her, it seemed to him that her indignation with the Dutchman was "the best instance of woman's falseness in the world." Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society I find I can pardon all things in a man except purblindness, falseness of vision,—for, indeed, does not that presuppose every other kind of falseness? The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I In this view, so commonly held in our day, that knowledge is subjective and reality unknowable, we have another example of the falseness and inconsistency of abstract thinking. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher She never chided him for not replying … she never complained … but every line was flavored with the self-justification of all essential falseness. Broken to the Plow If he was bound to maintain that it had a soul when it hadn't, that was where the falseness would come in. The Divine Fire It was the assumption of woman's falseness which led the ultra-masculine Pepys into a sufficiently absurd error. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society It is a taking idea; but a little reflection will show the falseness of the analogy. Is Ulster Right? It is ungrateful to note Whitman's limitations, his lack of human passion, the falseness of many of his notions about the American people. Emerson and Other Essays They all freely forgave their comrades; for none had been so falsely accused, but that he also had accused others with equal falseness. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time But then a great longing came over me to see Alswythe once more, and learn the truth of her faith or falseness. A Thane of Wessex The public and official recognition of the falseness and injustice of the Manchester verdict was therefore hailed with intense satisfaction. The Dock and the Scaffold Nicholl tried to prove by A + B the falseness of his formulae, and he accused him of being ignorant of the rudimentary principles of ballistics. The Moon-Voyage He dare not—having decided to make the appearance, and win the impression of falseness—be natural. Quit Your Worrying! And now, to shew the falseness of the heart in both these parts of repentance, And First: As to a hearty sorrow for the sins and miscarriages of the time past. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 04 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 2 She adds, that, seeing much of Louis Philippe, she never could abide him, he was so cunning and so false, not cunning enough to hide the falseness! Yesterdays with Authors Standing, as it might be said, in the presence of their God and Judge, they one and all protested their innocence, and declared the falseness of the evidence on which they had been convicted. The Dock and the Scaffold The first quality which strikes an examiner of these exercises in English composition is their falseness. The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style Falsity, falseness.—"Falsity, in the sense of 'non-conformity to truth,' without any suggestion of blame, is preferable to falseness, since falseness usually implies blame." Practical Exercises in English She could not understand it in others, nor the falseness of the world. The Italians It is more than probable that the much-deplored laxness, to call it by no harsher name, in business circles is directly traceable to this falseness and dishonesty in standards of home life. The Cost of Shelter There was no falseness in his voice; he spoke the truth. The Morgesons This falseness of thought and feeling is but too apt to characterize the writing of the student, after he has passed from the common school to the academy or the college. The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style Two could play at this game of falseness; and there were many beautiful women in Egypt only too eager to console the great Napoleon. Love affairs of the Courts of Europe She stepped like a Queen, for all that, and 'twas feared her falseness would become evident to the King's eye. Mistress Penwick State the difference here between our separation from Rome, and the dissenters from us, and shew the falseness of what he sayeth. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 The full story of his debts he kept back, not with any predetermined falseness, but because it is so difficult for a man to own that he has absolutely ruined himself by his own folly. Mr. Scarborough's Family There seems to be no doubt that by gradually bringing these discordant instruments together, the falseness of their relation must be more and more striking, more and more intolerable. Delsarte System of Oratory But no thought of its truth nor of the falseness of Helene so much as crossed my mind. Red Axe Loving, seeking, and holding fast to the truth, he despised all falseness and affectation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 In short, between declaiming, between misrepresenting, and falseness, and charging Popish things, and independency huddled together, his whole book is employed. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 But I myself am inclined to think that there was but little of a young man's selfishness, with nothing of falseness or dishonesty; and I am therefore tempted to tell his story. Mr. Scarborough's Family But Miss Allison soon proved her capabilities and the falseness of these prophecies by taking her place in the engine room and managing its workings with perfect ease. Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 The falseness of it will soon be felt and eventually proclaimed equally loudly and openly. Essays of Schopenhauer Occasionally the falseness of his position made him unjust to the Indians; more often it forced him into league with the latter, and made him hostile to the borderers. The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 But the falseness was not of a nature to cause him to be ashamed. John Caldigate The falseness, the absence of the quality called "the real thing," made him bitter and sad. The Second Generation "Yes, I will go, and myself fling his falseness in his teeth." McClure's Magazine December, 1895 From the fundamental defect that has been stated, and all that it involves, spring falseness, faithlessness, treachery, ungratefulness, and so on. Essays of Schopenhauer "This," answered the Moorish lord; "to acknowledge once again, before us all, the falseness of your faith." Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories When she learned that her friend purposed taking to himself a wife, she made no outcry against his falseness. French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France I repented more bitterly of my momentary falseness to Beauty while I saw him so constant. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 To dream of weevils, portends loss in trade and falseness in love. Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition It recommends to him falseness, and to be the thing in outward appearance that he is not in his heart. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author In short, study carefully the animal qualities that make up your temperament and prove in your own person the falseness of Napoleon's irritating statement that a man's temperament can never be changed by himself. Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers Yet with the instinctive fear of the irrevocable, with the innate falseness of the human heart, he wanted to keep open the way of retreat. An Outcast of the Islands All memory of the past, all thought of the future, all sense of the falseness and hopelessness of my own position, lay hushed within me into deceitful rest. The Woman in White The viscount remarked, with an ironical air: "All that is perfect; but the autopsy will reveal the falseness of the accusation." Baron Trigault's Vengeance And indeed on thinking it over it would have been plausible enough if there hadn't been always the essential falseness of irresponsibility in Schomberg's chatter. Falk A Reminiscence Their very faults assist them; they are helped even by the falseness of their position in life. Memories and Portraits Isn't it hard that you should condemn me to suffer for the falseness, the treachery of others? House of Mirth I believe that if I am doing what seems so bad, it is not mere weakness and falseness. The American After that proof of your horrible falseness and cunning, I tore up my letter. The Moonstone Can you not inform them in the plainest terms Of the falseness of the accusations made? Pocahontas. A Poem Hers betrayed the rude beginnings she had tried to hide, his the falseness of his surface finish. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California Lily sat silent, taking the brunt of it quietly, letting it spend itself on her to the last drop of its accumulated falseness; then, without a word, she rose and went down to her cabin. House of Mirth Queen Sigrid, as she beheld him for the first time, had no thought of the ring that he had given her, nor of its falseness. Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age Sometimes he would break out on these raw amateur actresses with a passion of impatience at their falseness of conception, their coldness of emotion, their feebleness of delivery. Villette Now he sought only how to conceal his deception and falseness. Salted with Fire The glad promise had a diabolically mocking sound, the subtle perceptive faculty of my insensible being felt the falseness of the sweet announcement. The Bride of Dreams These last are very rare, for to speak generally, there is no one who has not some falseness in some corner of his mind or his taste. Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims Oh, God!" she pleaded to the fields that lay in the silent rapture of summer content, "strengthen me against all this falseness. Thoroughbreds By degrees the falseness of my position became clear to me, and this set me thinking. Sanine That he was not paid, and that our English barristers are paid for the work they do, makes, I think, no difference either in the innocency or the falseness of the practice. The Life of Cicero Volume One She saw something of the falseness and folly of attempting to recommend religion as not so difficult, so exclusive, so full of prohibition as our ancestors believed it. The Elect Lady We dread still more to show falseness in taste than in mind. Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims Just because she was so sure of her own love she felt that she could never betray the falseness of Millicent Chyne. With Edged Tools But lately the falseness of his position had come home to him. The Gem Collector After this Rebecca rose to take her leave, saying something of the falseness of her brother Samuel, who had promised to come for her and to take her home. Nina Balatka He resolved to leave her in ignorance of its falseness. From One Generation to Another But nearly all men are deceived in the price and in the value, and in these mistakes there is always a kind of falseness. Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims Natural cruelty, inborn perfidy and falseness, even in animals, cast lurid gleams, as it were, into that fathomless pit of Satanic perversity which is a moral reality. Amiel's Journal But she was not content; Randolph Thomson, turning his back on her and his boy, had married a young lady of fortune; so vowing vengeance against men in general for their falseness and inconstancy. The Mysteries of Montreal Being Recollections of a Female Physician Through all these the Beaux Arts student, if he is intelligent enough to perceive the falseness and worthlessness of his primary education, slowly works his way. Modern Painting Without being a Bismarck I'm equal to falseness and stupidity wherever I meet it, falseness, and Praskovya's folly. The Possessed (The Devils) Of the falseness of this there is decisive evidence. Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published Israel found out that its idol lacked higher gifts than thews and sinews, and experience taught them the falseness of their ideal. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII What had revealed the falseness of his work, what had suddenly digged a pit between himself and his past was the experience which he had had during the last six months of life. Jean-Christophe, Volume I The readers would even fail to discover the falseness of the picture, if they were presented to themselves as perfect characters. Blind Love And just as I had loved you for your truth, so then I hated you for your falseness—your unbelievable falseness…. The Vision of Desire He had suspected her of grasping this happiness without scruple, clamorously; but her sweet white lips spoke out the falseness of this accusation. The Web of Life My hand trembles for this is my first attempt in falseness. The Village Coquette The expedition against Algiers was only a glittering fire-work arranged to flatter the national pride—all glitter and falseness! O. T. a Danish Romance I am displaying all the shallowness, falseness, pettiness, all the mean, and cruel and callous character which must be truly my real self.... The Fighting Chance Linda knew she was not Norman's first love, and requited Norman, of course, by telling him something, not much, of Alaric's falseness to her. The Three Clerks Well, it is a very bad thing; it tends to frighten those about him into falseness. Friends in Council — First Series And this loveliness was of a nature that was altogether pleasing, if once the beholder of it could get over the idea of falseness which certainly Lizzie's eye was apt to convey to the beholder. The Eustace Diamonds "All his deceit; all his sham and falseness—" The boy said nothing. Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape from the Brigand's of Greece For a thing's being perceived and its being perishable does not prove the thing's falseness, but only its non- permanency. The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 Yes, and one until lately I had will nigh forgotten, for in spite of Dame Rumour's falseness I have not been the principal actor in it. A Heart-Song of To-day There is no preternatural inefficacy in it by reason of its falseness. Friends in Council — First Series Lord Fawn did not immediately recognise the falseness of every word that the woman said to him, because he was slow and could not think and hear at the same time. The Eustace Diamonds Don't you .see," she went on, very softly, and lowering her look, from the half conscious shame of half unconscious falseness, "I can't be all my life here at Lossie? Malcolm I saw the falseness of all our ideas of morality, the absurdity of placing conventions before nature and the detestable character of our dealings with women and of our attitude in such matters. A Girl Among the Anarchists He is seldom ever seen with credulity; for, knowing the falseness of the world, he hath learned to trust himself always, others so far as he may not be damaged by their disappointment. Character Writings of the 17th Century Falsehood -- N. falsehood, falseness; falsity, falsification; deception &c. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Miss Macnulty knew that worthlessness, cruelty, and falseness had to be endured by such as she. The Eustace Diamonds With these words Arthur set forth towards Wissant, making complaint of the falseness of Mordred, who had turned him away from his conquest; for the warships lay at Wissant ready for sea. Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut But now he protests against his incarceration, declares the falseness of the bond, and accuses publicly the sergeant and myself. Tales for Young and Old The interest he felt in Cais, and the deep distrust with which the falseness of the Fazareans—who were always ready for treason—inspired him, induced him to show himself. Oriental Literature The Literature of Arabia Some were called "converts," to note the newness of their Christianity; others "confessed," to tell that they had confessed the falseness of Judaism. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 The Later Renaissance: from Gutenberg to the Reformation I was not sure that I had, for my falseness had precipitated this tragedy,—how I might never know, but a knowledge of the how was not necessary to my self-condemnation. The House of the Whispering Pines To cover his falseness the deeper, Vortigern called the Romans together in council. Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut The dreams of sanguine, hopeful youth, Are chiefly dreams alone, Whose falseness often breaks the heart, Or turns it into stone. Canada and Other Poems This highland gentleman, with his courage, his sentiment, and his ingrained falseness, is known to the readers of Mr. Stevenson’s ‘Catriona.’ Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles What they did was on an unprecedented scale in England because heresy existed on an unprecedented scale; and the result was that the general conscience was awakened to the falseness of the principle. England under the Tudors The war was conducted with exceptional ferocity on both sides, and witnessed more than the usual amount of falseness and breach of faith common to Oriental struggles. China I am afraid that you cannot clear yourself from the guilt of much hypocrisy and falseness in the affair of the college…. 4th. The Emancipation of Massachusetts Another objection to that paper is, that it too easily assumes the radical falseness, of Pope, as a notorious fact needing no evidence or illustration. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 Oh, girls, this is what hurts and soils your characters,—this drawing- room insincerity, this falseness, this seeming! Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out If she speak but once, let all bear witness to the falsehood of her Invisible God by the falseness of her broken vow, and her life be forfeit! Si'Wren of the Patriarchs But I fully recognize the falseness of your presence here. Man on the Box Eventually the falseness of the itch would be deduced, and the lab coated man would disappear out of the cell and return with… God knows what. Any Coincidence Is Generally, I believe, that to a just appreciation of Pope's falseness, levity, and self-contradiction, it is almost essential that a reader should have studied him with the purpose of becoming his editor. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 You are frank and honest now, or ought to be; you have not learned to imitate the falseness of so-called proprieties. Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out You have only one failing, and the falseness of your position, and your unhappiness and your catarrh of the bowels are all due to it. Letters of Anton Chekhov Dolores, though hitherto ungracious, missed her attentions, and decided that they were 'all falseness.' The Two Sides of the Shield His lordship knew the Civil Service as well as any one living, and must have seen much of falseness and fraudulent pretence, or he could not have asked that question. Autobiography of Anthony Trollope It was impossible that she should not make comparisons, comparisons that were so distasteful to her; impossible, also, that she should not accuse herself of some falseness to that first lover. Castle Richmond The contrast was intolerable, and the sense of his falseness stung her almost to madness. Without a Home I was wary at first, but she angled for me with a skill that would have disarmed any man who did not believe in the inherent falseness of woman. Taken Alive "That is the reward of your falseness," said he, "go your way, I will not have you!" and on that he chased her home again, and she was disgraced for the rest of her life. Household Tales by Brothers Grimm That was all she knew, save the mighty sorrow of his falseness which never left her day or night. The Maid of the Whispering Hills Others, the countess and the Castle Richmond people, had frightened her into falseness; and, therefore, it became him to maintain his right by any means—almost by any means, within his power. Castle Richmond I will not deceive one so true as you are, by even a trace of falseness. Without a Home The falseness of the thing, and the injury which may come of it, did not shock her at all. The Way We Live Now No sooner did the idea cross his mind than he felt ashamed of it, and his heart smote him for having for a moment harboured a thought that involved falseness to his promise to her. A Siren There was to his thinking a fiction,—more than fiction, a falseness,—about all this which not only would but ought to bring the country prostrate to the dust. The American Senator According to what they are, does the trueness or falseness which the idea harbored come to light. Meaning of Truth I know you now, Leonard Charteris, through and through, in all your falseness, your petty spite, your cruelty and your vanity. The Philanderer The indignation in Georgiana's mind approached almost to virtue as she thought of her father's falseness. The Way We Live Now And so the comedy went on, and all the actors flirted, and ogled, and nodded, and bowed, till Madame Midas was quite sick of the falseness and frivolity of the whole thing. Madame Midas And then she prayed to be forgiven for her falseness; for having consented, even for a moment, to forget the solemn vows she had so often repeated to him. The Kellys and the O'Kellys That falseness used to rouse his indignation even before, but now it seemed inexpressibly vile and ridiculous. The Cossacks And after these hours came the nights when truth, smiling at him, flung aside its mask and stood a grinning specter, and he measured to the depths the falseness of his triumph. The River's End He had made up his mind to break his engagement before he had seen Hetta Carbury, and therefore he could not accuse himself of falseness on her account. The Way We Live Now He may have dispositions the most dark and foul—falseness, hatred and revenge; but you may prevent their growth. Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper In saying all which Captain Dale was no doubt very false; but if falseness can be forgiven to a man in any position, it may be forgiven in that which he then filled. The Small House at Allington The falseness of an opinion is not for us any objection to it: it is here, perhaps, that our new language sounds most strangely. Beyond Good and Evil In spite of herself she was a child of the new era, of the universal reaction against the falseness and egotism of the old social code. The Valley of Decision He has reduced me to a nothing by his falseness, and yet I cannot injure him! The Way We Live Now If she believed his father to be utterly irreconcilable, there could be no excuse for lingering; yet his nobler self prevailed, to her no word of falseness. A Life's Morning Should there be such a fall,—should any such fate, either by falseness or misfortune, come upon her,—no such caution could be of service to save her. The Small House at Allington She was really not aware of the falseness of this conduct; being an adept in that species of sophistry with which people persuade themselves that what they wish to do is right. Ruth Falsehood never attains to the dignity of entire falseness, but is only an inferior sort of truth; if it were more thoroughly false, it would incur danger of becoming true. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers The falseness, the fathomless untruth of it, would have been bad enough alone. The Witch of Prague It was the very falseness of the situation which misled and blinded this magistrate, naturally so kind and generous. The Widow Lerouge Where is the pleasure in the irrepressible outline, fascinating in its falseness,—in the strange color, like the taste of olives, of the Spring and the Pallas? The Psychology of Beauty |
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