单词 | paltering |
例句 | Which brings us to Thursday’s main event, a hearing before the Senate committee that has already seen two Democratic truth-seekers demonstrate a Trumpian zest for paltering with the truth. Opinion | There’s no such thing as rock bottom 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z The researchers asked experienced negotiators who were part of an executive education course at Harvard Business School whether they engage in paltering, and 52% admitted to doing so. When telling the truth is actually dishonest 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z But they're different, says Rogers: One is the passive failure to disclose something a negotiation counterpart doesn't know, while paltering is the active use of truthful statements to mislead. When telling the truth is actually dishonest 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Gino and Rogers wanted to see what people on both sides of the coin think about paltering from an ethical, and personal, standpoint. Distorting the Truth is Just as Bad as Lying, Research Shows 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z He began his profitable paltering with America’s past with “Killing Lincoln.” Bill O’Reilly makes a mess of history 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z They endeavored in a paltering and limping way to show that the French Government had been selfish and only selfish, and had taken every care to keep Germany properly weak and divided. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z Their research found that people doing the misleading think paltering is less wrong than telling an outright lie. When telling the truth is actually dishonest 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z But if you say "I drove it yesterday in 10-below temperatures and it drove well," even if you know it's been to the shop twice in the past month, that's paltering. When telling the truth is actually dishonest 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z In a series of experiments involving more than 1,750 participants, the researchers determined that paltering is common and recognized as a separate, third form of deception. Distorting the Truth is Just as Bad as Lying, Research Shows 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z While thus to love he gave his days In loyal worship, scorning praise, How spread their lures for him in vain Thieving ambition and paltering gain! The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z No more paltering or taking refuge in abuse. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z But they're different, says Rogers: One is the passive failure to disclose something that a negotiating counterpart doesn't know, while paltering is the active use of truthful statements to mislead. When telling the truth is actually dishonest 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Of course, classifying whether voters or negotiation counterparts will see "paltering" as ethical is vastly complicated by an election in which the usual standards for truth and political rhetoric seemed to be ignored. When telling the truth is actually dishonest 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z For all this, he had attained to a grand degree of popularity, partly from the pretence of being on the Liberal side, but more from paltering to that fiend of false patriotism—national prejudice. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z There was now not an instant's paltering between them—not a word of explanation. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z That paltering, faltering element, was not among my natural enemies. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z But if you say, "I drove it yesterday in 10-below temperatures and it drove well," even if you know it's been to the shop twice in the last month, that's paltering. When telling the truth is actually dishonest 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z The researchers asked experienced negotiators who were part of an executive education course at Harvard Business School whether they engage in paltering, and 52 percent admitted to doing so. When telling the truth is actually dishonest 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z The brave make danger opportunity;— The waverer, paltering with the chance sublime Dwarfs it to peril. The History of Company A, Second Illinois Cavalry 2011-03-28T02:00:23.133Z At length he hit on a plan, and then peace seemed to come to him, a poor paltering show of peace, and he went about no longer like a beaten and broken horse. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z But his eyes shifted, and the keen and candid gaze of the woodsmen detected his paltering. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z Of course, classifying whether voters or negotiating counterparts will see paltering as ethical is vastly complicated by an election in which the usual standards for truth and political rhetoric seemed to be ignored. When telling the truth is actually dishonest 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Though not a new term -- he says it's borrowed from the field of philosophy -- Rogers and his co-authors have co-opted the concept of paltering for the field of negotiation. When telling the truth is actually dishonest 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z He would not consent to any paltering with justice, he would drive no bargain. The Intriguers You will find, and other advanced liberals and radicals who believe as I do will also find, that you are merely paltering with skin-deep measures when you stop short of socialism. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 In his physical weakness, in the illness that was sapping his nerve, he became wistfully paltering. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z False things, paltering things, were as abhorrent to her in her own conduct as in that of another. Rose MacLeod Their research found that people doing the misleading think paltering is better than committing an outright lie. When telling the truth is actually dishonest 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z And yet, because he was an honest man, he had no thought of paltering with his duty. Hand and Ring Why this paltering with us in a double sense? Arrows of Freethought We dissent from the Rock however; and we venture to think that Carlyle's greatest fault was a paltering with himself on religious subjects. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) It was a feeble, puny grimace of love, and paltering with passion. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges The heroic heart Beats to the spiritual cognate, paltering not Fraudulent with truth once known. Legends of the Saxon Saints He gave her credit for feelings so deep and for a nature so downright, that time-serving or paltering were the last faults he looked to find in her. The Wild Geese This paltering along with two or three drinks a day is mere cowardice. Cutting It Out How to get on the waterwagon and stay there The Government, however, felt that there could be no paltering with the situation. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era It looked like paltering and peddling, like sale and barter. The Drama Of Three Hundred & Sixty-Five Days Scenes In The Great War Atheist is really "a thoroughly honest, unambiguous term," it admits of no paltering and of no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear-cut issues and unambiguous speech. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative She pursued her aim for a time, sending showers of dew-drops paltering down, and knocking off a good many blossoms, but catching nothing. The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance The Parthian glance of contempt that reached me through her tears showed that the lady understood and despised my paltering. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War But there was no paltering with the situation which arose in 724. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Byron was not above "paltering" with his readers "in a double sense." The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry While Bolingbroke and his confederates were caballing and counselling, and paltering and drinking, the Whig statesmen were maturing their plans, and when the moment came for action it found them ready to act. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I "Mr. Welles," she said, bending upon him that direct and placid regard that rendered evasion difficult and paltering impossible, "things have come to a point;" and she narrated the scene of the morning. A Philanthropist The Act of 1793 was admittedly but a compromise measure; and beneficial as it was it was a paltering with sin. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 The paltering of the king called forth the patriotism of the people. Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries I will have no paltering with traitors, and I am more inclined to deal swiftly and summarily with you since to treason you add theft and this attempt upon a woman. The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo What need of paltering with petty fiends, when backed by His omnipotence? Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity The word "paltering" I reject, as vague; as to "tentative," he must show that I was tentative in my sermons; and he has eight volumes to look through. Apologia pro Vita Sua Here was no paltering of a puny nature with great feelings and a great experience. Shadows of the Stage Thereby he brings into lurid relief the sin and the shame of paltering with, of putting to ignoble uses, the national character and influence. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays Here, as elsewhere, there is, or there may be, "a paltering with us in a double sense." The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 No paltering with this duty, and no delay. The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow This process cannot go much further, without too much paltering with obvious meanings. Practical Essays But this also assures that his struggle against temptation shall be weak and vacillating; and that when, through his paltering with it, it culminates, he shall at once fall before it. The Ethics of George Eliot's Works He urged the painful sense of unreality which clings to the whole transaction, and the injury to religion which is involved in thus paltering in a double sense with sacred forms and words. Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences But the paltering irresolution which he had at all points displayed urged him to redeem himself,—else was he lower than a criminal. Idolatry A Romance To-day the duty of the nation seems to have been so clear that we have scant patience with the paltering policy of Congress and the Executive that permitted half a century of profitable law-breaking. American Merchant Ships and Sailors She helps me to establish my mind when it thinks of too many things at once, and cannot choose for paltering and fumbling. Children of the Market Place There is no paltering with temptation, such as brings the sister so near to hopeless fall. The Ethics of George Eliot's Works I marvel, room for such a paltering mood Should be within thy mind, now so nearly Deified with the first sense of my love. Emblems Of Love But the "Arab mystic" is too near sharing the belief to act his part with ease, and while he is still paltering the devoted Anael slays the Prefect. Robert Browning For the paltering imbecility of the old Ministry they had the unconquerable courage, the iron purpose, the unwavering faith, the inextinguishable hope, of the new one. Montcalm and Wolfe Then—a fact which should never be forgotten—the tale is carried through logically and expresses, with neither paltering nor evasion, George Eliot's sense of life's tragedy. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities I acknowledge that I spoke like a paltering knave, but in truth knew not what to say. Red Axe This implies no loss of principle, no paltering with loyalty, but merely putting in practice the wisdom of the experienced statesman. The Trade Union Woman The inquisitors of the new faith would have no paltering with error. The Psychology of Revolution Therefore it is an insult to the understanding, and paltering with all the rational inductions of modern science, for an educated writer, stone blind, to say a word about light. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 07, May 14, 1870 I may say that now without paltering, since you are not the man I thought some day to love. Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship On the contrary, my spirits rose, and I declared my readiness to follow this paltering, knock-kneed Brother of Pity. Red Axe Was there ever such paltering, ever such base and stupid attempts to delude rational beings? Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1 The people are abused;—set on—this paltering Becomes not Rome: nor has Coriolanus Deserved this so dishonoured rub, laid falsely I' the plain way of his merit. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Contrast with such a revelation the cave-muttered oracles of heathenism and their paltering double sense. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah You are a very brave and foolish gentleman," she said, "who chooses to face his own achievements without any paltering. Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship But such paltering with plain commandments is as ruinous as sinful, and is not to be atoned for by outward worship. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII And then, again, intimate friends have almost reproached me with 'paltering with them in a double sense, keeping the word of promise to their ear, to break it to their hope.' Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2 He was sneaking and he knew it and no paltering self-assurance that he was handling a touchy situation with necessary tact helped his feelings in the least. All-Wool Morrison The paltering fiend keeps the word of promise to the ear, and breaks it to the hope. Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms To prevent this they took refuge in political religionism, and paltering with the disturbed consciences, or the pious fantasies, of a portion of the people, they organised them into religious sects. Coningsby In that pause, he perhaps felt some compunction at paltering with justice, which it was Rome's one virtue to administer. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII Let us be faithful to our convictions, and shun paltering in a double sense. Prisoner for Blasphemy And let there be no idle quacking and paltering! Chantecler Play in Four Acts To say that I had not resented this foul deed, which seemed to me deserving of the title of the crime of the century, would be paltering with the truth. Right Ho, Jeeves Shame! to stand paltering thus, Tricked by the balancing odds; Strike! Poems It might have implied, for example, that Victor's half-hearted and paltering distrust of Nogam had all along been only too well warranted. Red Masquerade This he risked; the emergency had grown too desperate for more paltering; the lead had been abridged to thirty yards; in two minutes more it would be nothing. Alias the Lone Wolf And, paltering villain I dare you then presume To construe, as you list, my words—and lay Your bloody meaning on them? Mary Stuart But the least preliminary paltering with the spirit of commerce is a degradation. Without Prejudice Shame! to stand paltering thus, Tricked by the balancing odds;Strike! Pike County Ballads and Other Poems He had permitted a lie to aid in prying his way out, and now he was paltering with evasions and making no progress except toward more dangerous involvement. When Egypt Went Broke She wrung her hands, paltering, pleading, trying to explain, trying more desperately to postpone that settlement he was demanding. The Landloper Can't you see into yourself far enough to know that you are paltering with necessity? The Emancipated Then she rode back eagerly and required that thing of the King, and would listen to no paltering and no excuses. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 2 Henceforward, there was to be no paltering with that dangerous spirit of independence—was it not almost Gallicanism which possessed the Old Catholic families of England? Eminent Victorians He did not foresee, till too late, that by paltering with the Presbyterians, he should put both them and himself into the power of a fiercer and more daring party. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 So he walked to and fro on the heath outside the town, paltering with himself, struggling with himself, eating out his heart with eagerness, trying to believe that he was waiting for the night. The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable Loving you, he should, in the name of common sense, be doing something that would give him the right to marry, instead of paltering around with those stories of his and with childish dreams. Martin Eden |
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