| 单词 | prevarication |
| 例句 | By the time Linda drove me to the airport she had long since seen through my prevarications. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z When he started another joke I looked at John’s face and began to realize it was he who had started me telling all these prevarications. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z The ad is for “customer service” work, a type of job I tend to avoid because it normally involves a resume, which in turn would involve levels of prevarication I am not prepared to attempt. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was why I only ever voiced my thoughts indirectly,” Akhtar writes, “through that particular prevarication called art.” Dread, War and Ambivalence: Literature Since the Towers Fell 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z A devotee of prevarication and double-dealing, Molière would have made the most, in three acts, of stories like these. Review: At ‘Tartuffe’ in the Park, Hypocrisy Is No Picnic 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z At exam time and during university, the atmosphere can foster a tendency towards perfectionism – the setting of impossible targets, often accompanied by self-beration, prevarication, and impostor syndrome. 'You will have an emotional reboot': the ultimate guide to stress at every age 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z This is how Fox persuaded millions of viewers that it is fair and balanced despite its obvious skew, and that was before its primetime lineup's slide into the land of outright nativism and prevarication. Watching Newsmax, the Fox News challenger: Like home shopping TV for dangerous far-right fantasies 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z And after this moment, like a violinist picking up his bow, he returned to the same point in the scene, first beat of the bar, pitch, tempo and intensity perfect, no shuffling, no prevarication. 'This is the best moment of my life,' he said, lying in the bath: Ian Holm remembered 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z It’s one thing feeling frustrated by Olivia and Fitz yearning to be together, but it’s quite another to be bored by their prevarications. Death by boldness: has Scandal got itself in a crisis even Olivia Pope couldn't fix? 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z If you scythe away the thickets of Hendrickson’s alluringly presented prevarications, his assertion comes down to this: In his “Autobiography,” Wright confessed “shame” and “remorse” at some of his more egregious conduct. Architecture’s Most Irredeemable Cad 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z What he’s really asking is whether art is of any use, with its unstable meanings and prevarications, to shape history at all, never mind in a positive way. Walid Raad’s Unreality Show Spins Middle Eastern History as Art 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z But Thomas's prevarication got the better of him once more, and though conscription had yet to be introduced, he told Frost of the equal pull of the war in France. Edward Thomas, Robert Frost and the road to war 2011-07-29T21:57:01Z But his is one of the most striking stories of individual action triumphing over powerful vested interests and political prevarication. I predict a riot 2011-03-05T00:07:24Z But Norris is inviting us to see them in all their dimensions, even if prevarication is their first language, and even if, as Ivy says, they all view themselves as victims. ‘Downstate’ Review: A Foulness in the Very Air They Breathe 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z But more than anything, it is Falstaff’s relish for language — his unstemmed and unstemmable gift for elaborate prevarication, for colorful excoriation, for creative ingratiation — that Mr. Sher brings to buoyant life. ‘Henry IV’ Plays, With Antony Sher as Falstaff, in London 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Releasing twin albums a year apart might seem like excessive prevarication, but in the context of Earth's lugubrious pace, that's practically a simultaneous release. Earth: Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II ? review 2012-02-09T22:59:00Z The Washington Post’s Fact Checker has relentlessly catalogued the president’s prevarications. Perspective | Here’s a sword, General Kelly. Use it on the White House lies. 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z During an English class, Mamere learns about “the good lie” — prevarication for a higher purpose — while studying “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” In ‘The Good Lie,’ Sudanese Refugees Adjust to America 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z That first clause is a prevarication, and the second I hope is untrue. Books of The Times: ?[sic]: A Memoir,? by Joshua Cody - Review 2011-12-20T22:40:00Z This habit of avoidance leads to a series of prevarications for both protagonists — most disturbingly, in their relations with women. Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z Could a child be more swiftly thrust into the world of adult pretense, adult prevarication? A Dark Ride 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z “Chalk,” by Joshua Rivkin, is what happens when your quarry happens to be a maniac for privacy and prevarication, a one-time army cryptographer whose art rejoices in gnomic ideograms, illegible phrases and inside jokes. ‘Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly’ Hunts for Big — and Elusive — Game 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z Egg freezing could enable further male prevarication over whether or when to have children. We need to talk about egg freezing 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z Until then, Susan meets the interested parties and is greeted with the requisite hostility, evasiveness and prevarication. One Whodunit Nests Inside Another in ‘Moonflower Murders’ 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z Expanded from his Gifford lectures, it is, as one might expect of the author of A History of Christianity and Reformation, intellectually robust, and without the prevarications and self-qualifications that sometimes stymie academic prose. Silence: A Christian History by Diarmaid MacCulloch – review 2013-03-29T08:01:01Z For a band who always pushed the envelope, prevarication is understandable. Severed Heads - review 2013-03-14T08:11:25Z Green or not, Chris calmly walks Cybil into a corner with Mia's assistance, following a barrage of prevarication: "In the interest of transparency, was I hired for a permanent anchor position because I am black?" The stunning, rude awakening of Nicole Beharie's Chris Hunter on "The Morning Show" 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z In the midst of this muck of doublespeak and prevarication, her own words rise, anthemic. ‘Lakota America’ Puts the Tribe of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse Front and Center 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Another reason, I suspect, is that Wallace’s appraisal is something of an oasis of clarity in a coverage environment clouded by spin, prevarication and "whataboutism." The impeachment party is in full swing with the media as its unprepared host 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z The source who alerted The Times to VOA’s decision feared it suggested prevarication by the administration. U.S. government’s Voice of America orders reporters not to call Hamas ‘terrorists’ 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z A real professional prosecutor went to work on Trump; there were no political prevarications. "The Trump empire ... will fold like a stack of cards," says former prosecutor 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z The children's commissioner also said there had been "a year and a half of prevarication and delay" over the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Nicola Sturgeon 'absolutely failed' Scottish children - commissioner 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z That in itself is because of the prevarication around improving the stadium, which is likely to cost £1bn. Seconds out, round three - what is happening with Man Utd sale? 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z But Mr. Trump’s own conduct as president — his prolific prevarication, his attacks on immigrants, his efforts to overturn democracy — has softened views of Mr. Bush among those who once despised him. Bush Doesn’t Second-Guess Himself on Iraq. Even if Everyone Else Does. 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z "The signatories to this letter demand that Church authorities act immediately and without prevarication in order to repair the damage to the reputation of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland". Presbyterian Church: Members challenge next moderator's women ordination remarks 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z All these forces were at play before Donald Trump became president, but he relentlessly exploited and exacerbated them with constant prevarications and attacks on the news media. New research shows that Donald Trump's fascist attacks on democracy may have backfired 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Alpine's mishandling of their driver situation - losing not only Alonso but also their protege Oscar Piastri after their prevarications annoyed both of them - led to their interest in Gasly. Verstappen eyes perfect race as second title looms 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z But Alpine have been made to pay for their prevarication. F1 is back - what should you look out for? 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z Ms Truss said 7 and then after some prevarication Mr Sunak came out with 10/10 for delivering Brexit - to some applause. Tory leadership debate: Five key moments from Truss-Sunak clash 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z His prevarications over a series of scandals — coronavirus lockdown parties, the refurbishment of his official apartment and the appointment of an ally accused of sexual misconduct. Boris Johnson blames ‘the herd,’ resigns to make way for new U.K. leader 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z In their resignation letters and speeches in the House of Commons, ministers said they were fed up with Johnson and his self-inflicted scandals, stoked by his prevarications, with one former official saying “enough is enough.” Boris Johnson defies calls to resign amid mass exodus from his government 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z I tracked Simpson’s prevarications for years in print, eventually receiving a bilious email from him in which he simply repeated the lies I had debunked. Column: Why is this foul-mouthed enemy of Social Security receiving a presidential honor? 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z Ribeiro is accused of influence peddling, corruption, prevarication, and administrative advocacy – meaning under Brazilian law he could have used his ministerial job to promote private interests. Former education minister in Brazil is jailed in graft probe 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z If Trump decides McCarthy must pay for his prevarications — or for the truths he tried to hide — the price still could be high. For Trump’s GOP, crossing lines has few consequences 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z Karsnitz suggested Wood’s participation in lawsuits in Georgia and Wisconsin challenging the 2020 election results demonstrated “a toxic stew of mendacity, prevarication and surprising incompetence.” Delaware court upholds dismissal of Candace Owens lawsuit 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z But this prevarication strikes me as a strange place to make an ethical stand. Opinion | Earth to GOP: All of Biden’s top Supreme Court candidates are qualified 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z In a Facebook post, he added the public deserved "clarity, honesty and contrition", instead of "obfuscation, prevarication and evasion". Downing Street party: My constituents are 60 to one against Boris Johnson, says Conservative 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z In a Facebook post, he added the public deserved "clarity, honesty and contrition" instead of "obfuscation, prevarication and evasion". Boris Johnson not in danger over parties, says Nadhim Zahawi 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z Matched against the bigotry that lost Gruden his job would be the peculiar prevarications of the Packers' once exemplary quarterback, Aaron Rodgers. How the age of Trump has changed fandom 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Such prevarications offer an updated version of Chief Justice Roger Taney's infamous statement in the Dred Scott case that Black people have no rights that the white man is bound to respect. Ahmaud Arbery and America: This fragile moment of justice doesn't mean "the system works" 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z While Pope Francis has also criticized the world’s elites, he has taken to task those who “in this modern age … can see nothing but prevarication and ruin.” Opinion | A fragile truce in Catholic bishops’ war over Biden 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z I would feel different if I thought her prevarication was at the expense of those children, but I see no reason this would have to be so. As a Doctor, May I Refuse to See Unvaccinated Patients? 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z Prosecutors will investigate whether Bolsonaro committed the crime of “prevarication,” which entails delaying or refraining from action required as part of a public official’s duty for reasons of personal interest. Court OK’s probe of Brazil’s Bolsonaro, who faces protests 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z A last telling instance of Hill's prevarications that I'll offer here highlights the dangers of entangling a state's public discourse with a university's teaching of the liberal arts. What "politics" does to history: The saga of Henry Kissinger and George Shultz's right-hand man 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z The Republican Party, its leadership and elected officials fully embraced and consistently supported Trump's policy agenda — no matter what degree of deflection or prevarication they may wish to offer. How is Marjorie Taylor Greene's failed "America First" caucus any different from the GOP? 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z A Superior Court judge ruled Monday that L. Lin Wood’s actions in election-related lawsuits in Georgia and Wisconsin “exhibited a toxic stew of mendacity, prevarication, and surprising incompetence.” Judge boots Trump attorney from Carter Page defamation suit 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z He wrapped that lie in layers of other prevarications about supposed Georgia electoral wrongdoing — like his claim that he had hundreds of thousands of additional votes. Perspective | The riot happened because the Senate acquitted Trump 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z A majority of senators on the investigating committee previously told the AP that, once their inquest concludes, they would vote to recommend Bolsonaro be indicted for prevarication. Court OK’s probe of Brazil’s Bolsonaro, who faces protests 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z Like others, Mr. Jenkins pointed to an episode-by-episode analysis by Hugo Vickers, a royal historian, which found whoppers large and small in the series and has become Exhibit A for its prevarications. ‘The Crown’ Stokes an Uproar Over Fact vs. Entertainment 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z Environmentalists say the need for action is so pressing that more months of prevarication and delay is not acceptable. Summit aims for clean-up of shipping industry 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z There is, of course, a long history of presidential prevarication. Dishonesty Has Defined the Trump Presidency. The Consequences Could Be Lasting. 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z The ministry said the arrested individuals were being investigated for alleged embezzlement, prevarication and money laundering. Spain: Police arrest 21 in raids on Catalan separatists 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z But as with many of Mr. Trump’s prevarications, there was a nugget of truth to his assertions Thursday night. Trump Tried to Blur Responsibility for His Family Separation Policy in Final Debate 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z “So it is indeed ironic that our first reality-TV-star-turned-president, abetted by his party, would bury truth in an avalanche of prevarications about current cataclysms and his role in them.” In prime time, GOP’s alternate reality bolsters a flagging campaign 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z How do you handle a situation where it’s not just the president who has lied but his counsel, in the course of a trial over the president’s own prevarications? Perspective | The moment impeachment managers realized how corrupt Trump’s defense was 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z If every other country in our economic class is controlling the virus while Americans continue to die, no amount of presidential prevarication will distract voters from that essential fact. Opinion | Trump’s Jedi mind tricks aren’t working anymore 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z In two essays this year, he said that official delay and prevarication had stoked the coronavirus outbreak that emerged in China late last year. Outspoken Chinese Professor Is Said to Be Released From Detention 2020-07-12T04:00:00Z After weeks of prevarication and days of confused messaging, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government said that masks will be required in stores starting July 24. In reversal, UK says it will make masks mandatory in shops 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z No need here to rehash the painful story of delay and prevarication; endless recriminations and postmortems are their own form of parochialism. Covid-19 is now a truly global health crisis – the solutions must be too | Adam Tooze 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Defoe is particularly strong on the unpreparedness and prevarication that made the impact of the plague more severe. The end of coronavirus: what plague literature tells us about our future 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z It’s beyond reasonable dispute that his coronavirus posturing, preening, prevarication and paranoia fatally hindered the early US response. Trump is playing a deadly game in deflecting Covid-19 blame to China 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z Asked about DeSantis’s prevarication, Adams responded by quoting Trump’s extension of social distancing measures the night before: “My advice to America would be that these guidelines are a national stay-at-home order.” Florida's slow response: How the sunshine state got it so wrong 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z The pandemonium that ensued neatly encapsulated a pattern now repeating itself across the US – prolonged prevarication, followed by precipitous action, prompting mass anxiety, culminating in a drastic shutdown. Unprepared America wakes up to coronavirus, gradually then all at once 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z This is not an accident or just a matter of bad luck: Trump’s brand is uncertainty, volatility and prevarication, whereas trust, stability, and confidence are essential for growth. Donald Trump is a good president … but only for the top 1% 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z President Trump routinely engages in cruelty, dividing the nation with his demagoguery, prevarications and attacks on anyone he considers deficient in loyalty to him. Opinion | A split among evangelicals 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z It is little wonder that pro-Brexit voters in such seats felt scant loyalty to a party committed, after much agonized prevarication, to a second referendum. Opinion | Boris Johnson Will Change Britain Forever 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z The prevarication might’ve worked, too, except multiple outlets responded by confirming SI’s account. SNYDER: Smart, analytical Astros? How about dumb, caveman Astros 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z "But then the game-playing returns almost immediately with a vote for yet more prevarication and delay." Welsh MPs reject PM's Brexit deal timetable 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z As for Trump, his paranoia expands with his prevarications. Opinion | Mick Mulvaney, there may soon be a spot for you under the bus 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z For Labour, at its Brighton conference next weekend, Swinson has opened up a golden opportunity, a chance to forget past prevarications. Swinson’s remain extremism has given Labour a golden opportunity | Polly Toynbee 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z The minister warned that the EU’s patience over the UK’s prevarication would not last forever given the impact on the bloc’s ability to steer its own way forward. EU is losing patience with Britain, warns Dutch minister 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z Even as he welcomed these developments as necessary and humane, Marías saw new prevarications behind them. Spain’s Most Celebrated Writer Believes the Fascist Past Is Still Present 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z The United Nations’ prevarication in the case thus far only weakens the institution. Opinion | Saudi Arabia is making the world complicit in a miscarriage of justice 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z The session transcript reveals a seven-hour exercise in prevarication as White House lawyers steered Hicks away from answering questions 155 times. Hope Hicks: Trump adviser's testimony offers 7-hour exercise in prevarication 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z All of that, along with the endless prevarication and triangulation of the Democrats, was part of a larger global pattern of decay that has spread through most of the Western-style democracies. Beware Joe Biden's "national unity" campaign: Win or lose, it's a bad idea 2019-06-09T04:00:00Z During the investigation, he wanted to speak out, to put the lie to Nixon’s prevarications. Past special prosecutors explained themselves – and they all faced the same problems. What would Mueller say? 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z The obfuscation and indirection continued Wednesday when Democrats tried to pin Barr down on his prevarication. Opinion | William Barr has shamelessly corrupted the debate over the Mueller report 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z It has cut through the anti-Trump coalition on the so-called left like a hot knife through a brick of lard, exposing hypocrisy, uncertainty and prevarication on all sides. Julian Assange and the future of democracy: Is this a turning point in World War IV? 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z And George Conway responded on Twitter, posting, “Needless to say, there’s a huge difference between an isolated slip of the tongue and ceaseless, shameless, and witless prevarication on virtually all topics, large and small.” Four of George Conway’s most memorable attacks on President Donald Trump 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z The plan to close Futenma and move to Henoko was born out of that vote but was later beset by delays, prevarication and legal challenges. In Japan’s Okinawa, voters deliver a resounding no to new U.S. military base 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Aside from Mr. Trump’s by-now familiar prevarications, it is breathtaking to see him so at odds with the intelligence community. Opinion | Trump says the intelligence community is wrong. Actually, he is. 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z After: After three months of prevarications behind the closed doors of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the president came down decisively on the side near the exits. Has Trump delivered on his promises? 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z The judge was not upset only about Mr. Flynn’s sneaky prevarication. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Yet the difference in Trump’s prevarication seems to be found not in the quantity or enormity of his lies, but in the way that Trump uses his lies in service to a proto-authoritarian political ideology. Lies, damn lies and post-truth 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z Mr. Trump’s penchant for prevarication has been a well-documented hallmark of his presidency. Inside What Even an Ally Calls Trump’s ‘Reality Distortion Field’ 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z She added: “I urge the Saudi authorities to reveal the whereabouts of his body without further delay or prevarication.” The Latest: UN rights chief asks Saudis to tell site of body 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z He cited their support for military spending and their opposition or prevarication on broadly popular programs like free public college or Medicare for All. Can the “blue wave” save Democrats from themselves? Progressive activists see hard work ahead 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z “The crocodile tears of the crown prince and other Saudi officials are probably for deception and prevarication,” Bruce Riedel, a former C.I.A., Did the Saudis Murder Jamal Khashoggi? 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Moon seems happy to accept and even defend North Korea’s prevarications because his priority is improving relations across the Korean border. Opinion | Trump sees ‘tremendous progress’ on the Koreas where none exists 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z And the one who has the longer track record of prevarication on this topic. Opinion | Giuliani said Cohen has no credibility. What about the president? 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z But what to make of Trump’s prevarications over Russia’s involvement was the question that hung in the air here, largely unanswered. As the national security elite gather in Aspen, the subject is, of course, Trump 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Trump's prevarications about Putin upon his return to the U.S. remind us that his own pacts last no longer than a news cycle. Donald Trump’s Helsinki sellout, ranked among the biggest sellouts of history 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z But unlike Richard M. Nixon and Bill Clinton — our previous standard-bearers in presidential prevarication — Trump’s lies are not a defensive response to protect a political legacy. Opinion | When it comes to lying, Trump is nonstop 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z But it’s also useless to slice and dice the degrees of prevarication in a way that sort of, kind of, almost shoehorns Trump into the admittedly debased tradition of democratic discourse. Is Donald Trump a liar? Maybe not — and that’s when it really gets scary 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z Zuckerman is Roth by any other name, despite the author’s regular denials and prevarications. ‘Savagely funny and bitingly honest’ – 12 writers on their favourite Philip Roth novels 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Past British bluster and prevarication weaken this country’s hand. If the case against Russia is proved, charge Putin with the attempted murder of Sergei Skripal| Simon Tisdall 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z Then in the late 1950s the duchy began to lobby the government to relax the rules, and after some prevarication the Treasury agreed. The Queen was once barred from investing overseas. She can be again | David McClure 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z "Welsh supply teachers are fed up with delays, prevarication, inquiries and reports," said a spokesman. Supply teachers 'quitting over low pay' 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Basic civility and respect speak louder than name-calling, trolling, shaming and prevarication. Opinion | What we can all learn from John McCain 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z Sadly for Americans, Trump’s requirement that his underlings praise him is not the only way the president is prodding Washington towards Beijing-like levels of obeisance, opacity, prevarication and corruption. Emperor Trump's sycophantic cabinet meeting stinks of Beijing-like obeisance | Isaac Stone Fish 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z The Flynn story is obviously heating up again, but let’s pause to ponder how Trump’s genius at evasion, diversion and prevarication helped him to keep the Russia story at bay. Opinion | Trump’s greatest single achievement is almost never mentioned 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z In the age of Trumpian perpetual prevarication, ignorance fuels his power and corruption. Depressed by Politics? Just Let Go 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Long ago, his desperate plot flips, his costume-jewelry makeup baubles and his predictable prevarications became exhausted; and, once you disengaged from them, bizarre. Now’s the time: Redskins fans should give their hearts to the other local teams 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z The saving grace of democracies is the existence of neutral, politically-independent institutions capable of safeguarding truth from the politics of prevarication. Why Trump wants to disempower institutions that protect the truth | Lawrence Douglas 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z The price Mr. Trump paid for this record of prevarication was modest and manageable. ‘Up Is Down’: Trump’s Unreality Show Echoes His Business Past 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z Lanhee J. Chen, a foreign policy adviser to Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential campaign, said that Mr. Trump’s previous prevarications about numbers did not necessarily reflect what he would do in office. The Numbers Game of Donald Trump 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z In the age of Trumpian perpetual prevarication, ignorance fuels his power and corruption. Depressed by Politics? Just Let Go 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z "We don't expect from them today anything more than prevarication and procrastination," Hadi was quoted as saying after meeting the American and British ambassadors. Yemen conflict: UN-brokered three-day ceasefire begins - BBC News 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Trump is a role model for antipathy, envy, calumny, mendacity, prevarication, stupidity in the face of challenge, not being prepared for his goal, and bullying. What Our Sons Are Learning From Donald Trump 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z And it did damage her politically, exposing her sense of above-the-law entitlement and — in her dodges and prevarications, her parsing and evasions — demonstrating her arm’s-length relationship with the truth. The bribery standard 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Sarcasm is part of Trump’s appeal, and I would rather hear that than prevarication, obfuscation and deception. Sarcasm is part of Donald Trump's appeal 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z And do so specifically in response to his greatest rhetorical vulnerability, which isn’t his exhaustively documented passion for prevarication, but his eagerness to traffic in vagary and insinuation. How to beat Donald Trump: The simple playbook that will lead to his political demise 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z The fact is, Trump hasn’t needed any help in exposing his prevarications, exaggerations and just plain awful behavior. Trump demonizes the media, again 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z Her public prevarications included the preposterous notion that more than 50 percent of children enrolled in Texas public schools are in a special education program. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z So that got us at MSNBC.com to thinking: What would we ask Trump if he had to give us a direct answer to the question — no wiggling, no prevarication, no promises of “winning” without offering details. The questions Donald Trump should answer 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Whatever, it all sounds like mere prevarication to this observer. The long view shows the fight for female members at Muirfield isn't over - Golf Digest 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Facebook Twitter Pinterest If being a New Yorker means missing what New York used to be, then Sanders is the apotheosis of what New York used to be: gritty, unrefined, without pretense or prevarication. I'm campaignin' here! Just how New York are the presidential candidates? 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z It can sometimes seem as though Donald J. Trump defies the laws of political physics — that his provocations, prevarications and flip-flops simply slough off his branded baseball cap. Wisconsin Takeaways: Donald Trump Stumbles and Bernie Sanders Soars, for Now 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z As for the six justices who comprised the majority in the decision, the Texas senator said, "They are lawless, and they hide their prevarication in legalese." Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles Grassley on Tuesday warned Chief Justice John Roberts to stay out of the Senate's fight over the Supreme Court's vacancy, accusing the current court of being overly political 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z Frankly, they also don’t seem the prevarications of somebody seriously seeking the U.S. presidency, though they do seem useful if you are riding a wave and want to keep riding it. Does Donald Want to Be President? 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Analysts say that Zambia's - and sub-Saharan Africa's - energy crisis is caused by a lack of planning, a lack of investment as a result of low tariffs, prevarication by politicians and poor management of resources. Zambia power cuts leave most of the country in darkness - BBC News 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z There was no room for standing on the sidelines or prevarication, and those who spread "lies and slander" about the reform process must be firmly rejected, it added. China army paper warns of lost wars and shame if no reform 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z So Joe Biden’s prevarication about joining the Democratic race always made it unlikely that he would, notwithstanding his occasional flashes of ankle. Joe says no 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z And in doing so, she congenitally lies and prevaricates — and gets caught in those lies and prevarications,” Mr. Klein says. Inside the Beltway: Ed Klein says Hillary Clinton is like Houdini 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z I met one man who, fed up with the charges and prevarications of the Turkish people smugglers, swam the whole way from Bodrum to Kos. Find Azam: The boy who disappeared in the migration through Europe - BBC News 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Mas is under investigation for grave disobedience, abuse of public funds, prevarication, usurping powers and obstructing justice. Spain: Thousands support Catalan leader as he is questioned by court over secession poll 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Prosecutors accuse him of disobedience, abuse of public funds, prevarication, usurpation of powers and obstructing justice. Spain: Catalan president placed under investigation for 2014 independence referendum 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z Foreign, uncompromisingly independent, Frank loathed the provincial prevarications of nostalgia. The Man Who Saw America 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z As for the six justices who comprised the majority in the decision, he said, "They are lawless, and they hide their prevarication in legalese." CAPITOL HILL BUZZ: Ted Cruz slams 'rogue justices' 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Iran's prevarications should remind us that while we would welcome the enterprise and creativity of the Iranian people in the community of nations, the regime is certainly repressive. 5 Key Issues in Nuclear Negotiations With Iran 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z The message to Athens is pretty clear: it is time to decide, no more prevarication. Greece debt crisis: Tsipras's impossible position - BBC News 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z On her last official visit to Spain as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton repeated the usual platitudes and prevarications, even when informed of a secret U.S. dump discovered in Palomares in 2008. The Nuclear Disaster You Never Heard of 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z The extent of the prevarication leads one to wonder whether anything Hayden said that day was true. Taking Responsibility for Torture 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z As a result, his inventions weren’t just scientific discoveries, but also prevarications. How Edison Invented the Light Bulb — And Lots of Myths About Himself 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z I have sat down with ministers and senior Israeli politicians and urged peaceful negotiations and a proportionate response to prevarication, and I thought that they were listening. A British Friend of Israel Speaks Out 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z Instead, it got caught up in the prevarication of President Hamid Karzai, and then in the wrangle over the election of his successor. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z But that is no reason to prolong the prime minister’s prevarication. David Cameron’s half-cocked war 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z That would help avoid a repeat of the Obama administration’s prevarication on Egypt. Don’t pass the ‘coup clause’ with a national security waiver Indeed, the game, so far, is reminiscent of the Blair camp in 1997: prevarication and stringing everyone along behind a show of impartial, genuine interest. You can't wriggle out of a TV debate now, Mr Cameron 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z They also accused him of "deliberate prevarication in order to mislead the committee". Phone hacking: Met had the evidence. How will it explain five years of failure? 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z What is unusual about China’s bubble is not its persistence but its prevarication. Double bubble trouble 2014-03-20T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, the prevarications, ignorance and feet-dragging in that party reflect poorly on the entire political establishment. House Science Committee Turning Into a National Embarrassment 2014-03-31T14:19:58Z The cumulative effect of treatment also left me bereft of the prevarications and censors that ease everyday interactions. Well: Living With Cancer: Life of the Party 2014-01-23T19:56:29Z Xinhua said that the U.S. prevarications about the spying accusations was deeply hypocritical, especially considering the allegations about hacking thrown Beijing's way by Washington. China's Xinhua says "Peeping Tom" U.S. risks own security by spying on allies 2013-11-01T10:10:16Z In many ways, the prevarication highlights the inconsistencies in international and Western intervention. U.S. caution on Syria raises regional questions 2013-09-03T18:03:35Z With combat continuing on the ground in the affected areas, there is clearly scope for prevarication and delay, although Western patience is short. Syria attack may force search for peace 2013-08-25T09:11:23Z The move follows months of prevarication by and carefully worded denials. Lynton Crosby: I have never discussed tobacco issues with Cameron 2013-07-23T14:33:26Z In South Africa, too, there was a coolness after her death as its new, democratic leaders recalled her prevarication on apartheid. "Iron Lady" Thatcher mourned, but critics speak out 2013-04-09T10:27:30Z The prevarication and U-turns that burden important issues such as airport capacity risk damaging the competitiveness and attractiveness of the UK to overseas investors. Budget 2013: If there's one thing George Osborne should do … 2013-03-17T00:06:15Z This, however, is too serious an issue for such parsing and prevarication. With non-response, Obama continues war on weed 2013-01-09T13:03:00Z They skulked into the spin room late and tried to dress up a clear loss with complaints about Romney’s prevarications. Obama Campaign Bullish After Strong Second Debate 2012-10-17T19:35:23Z But the meeting is overshadowed by deadlock in Athens, and prevarication in Madrid. Eurozone crisis live: Finance ministers meet as Greek talks drag on 2012-10-08T07:13:53Z Cheating or Not So were there any prevarications, or minor data manipulations with the Friday morning announcements. Statistics Don't Lie, But The People Who Publish Them Might 2012-10-07T13:29:29Z After examining those claims and consulting independent fact-checking websites, we selected some of the most prominent falsehoods and prevarications of the 2012 campaign*—at least so far. Who Lies More, Obama or Romney? Another Close Contest 2012-10-03T21:05:42Z There is a cost to delay and prevarication. Charlemagne: The other moral hazard 2012-09-27T15:09:28Z A midnight assignation and a duel are among the subsequent results of Dorante’s glib prevarications. | New Jersey: A Review of ‘The Liar,’ at the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey 2012-07-14T05:11:44Z “My transferral ... would provoke profound loss and discouragement in those who believed it was possible to clean up many situations of corruption and prevarication,” he wrote. Secrets Of The Vatican 2012-07-09T05:00:00Z But mark me--no attempt at delay, no prevarication, no hesitation! The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale 2012-04-26T02:00:10.260Z But on this occasion he stooped to a moderate prevarication. Mariquita A Novel 2012-04-24T02:00:19.737Z When a criminal judge has a right crafty knave before him, one well versed in the arts of prevarication, his main object is to wring a confession from the culprit by a few skilful questions. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z I am convinced that his suggestion was honest, as prevarication is altogether foreign to English nature. My Mission to London 1912-1914 2012-04-17T02:00:14.497Z I am willing to believe, Miss Neville, it is as you say; but there must be no more trifling or prevarication, matters have become too serious for that. It May Be True, Vol. II (of III) 2012-03-20T02:00:12.527Z We ought to utter truth always, without exaggeration or prevarication, leaving consequences with God. The Iron Furnace Slavery and Secession 2012-02-14T03:00:24.963Z It is only reasonable to assume that other and larger prevarications concerning the North Sea battle may be ascribed to "naval reasons." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 14, 1916 2012-02-11T03:03:42.797Z With regard to this piece of cruelty, all that I can say, but which on no account do I offer as an excuse, is, that the negroes are very stubborn, and given to prevarication. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z This is so replete with prevarication and misrepresentation, that I cannot accord to the General that candor which I once supposed him to possess. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:35.370Z But on the slightest evasion, prevarication, or default, the blow descends. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z “You always was the boy with a little prevarication on the end of your tongue!” suggested Alex. The River Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence The Lost Channel 2012-01-02T03:00:21.167Z Of course, that statement itself relies on the same tenuous semantics that made “Republicans voted to end Medicare” 2011′s top prevarication in the first place. PolitiFact's Semantic Distinction of the Year: Ending Medicare 2011-12-21T10:05:33Z As the violence continued on Monday, with several people reported killed, the Arab League said it was not ready to lift economic sanctions it imposed to cut short Syrian prevarication. Syria to Let in Monitors, Opposition Skeptical 2011-12-19T16:16:26Z At that time I learned to hold obstinately to my conjectures until I had overcome the patient's prevarications and had forced him to confirm my suppositions. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z I have accused the Romish church and her priests of treachery, prevarication, and fraud, in all their dealings with Protestants. Popery! As it Was and as it Is Also, Auricular Confession; And Popish Nunneries 2011-10-12T02:00:50.077Z Evasion, prevarication and disguise are the inseparable concomitants of guilt. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z The dread he had evinced at mention of the housekeeper’s name proved that, and his prevarications and evasions were further evidence. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z The fellow blinked his ferret eyes viciously, but began a futile attempt at prevarication. The Duke Decides 2011-09-14T02:00:47.307Z And we have to seek for a meaning of this awful statement—inadequate no doubt, for all our thoughts must come short of such a reality, but free from prevarication and evasion. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z For all their prevarication, that means next to none. Ravi Bopara will bat at six for England in Test against India 2011-08-09T14:59:44Z These preliminary steps must be taken before he can avoid absurdity or the imputation of wilful prevarication. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z But the pope was not thus turned off, and after a little more of prevarication the man was obliged to confess. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z Against the burden of such a fate, no parade of sophistry, no petty concealments or prevarications will be of avail. The Chief Justice A Novel 2011-07-27T02:00:28.873Z Indeed, it is Tito's awe of his grand, noble wife, and his dread of her judgment, which first of all incite him to prevarication and lies. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z This has led to a practice of public prevarication, that of persons saying a thing and not meaning it, or meaning something else. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z Over the past several weeks, interviews with dozens of Chinese store owners, restaurateurs and street vendors yielded prevarications, obfuscations and otherwise fraught conversations. Sale of Illegal Wine Flourishes in Chinese Enclaves 2011-07-19T21:20:02Z Sancho coolly counted the pieces that were put into his hand, and, finding them greatly to exceed his hopes, he had no longer any motive for prevarication. Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay 2011-06-14T02:00:24.670Z And when directly after it she said good night, he had drawn her out into the passage and solemnly adjured her, while the hall-porter pretended he was out of ear-shot, to have done with prevarications. The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z Rotha had no skill whatever in prevarication, nor understood the art. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z As it enters the election season, San Francisco finds itself with a clutch of political figures who, like Mr. Mirkarimi, seem determined to turn prevarication into a comical art form. The Bay Citizen: Big Deal. I Just Said It. I Didn?t Say It Was True. 2011-05-14T20:56:53Z Then, again, there is a temptation to concealment, and even to prevarication, over mere trifles. Courtship and Marriage And the Gentle Art of Home-Making 2011-04-27T02:00:20.023Z It would be difficult to charge any one with deliberate prevarication. The Man Who Pleases and the Woman Who Charms 2011-04-05T02:00:10.347Z "This," he then said with severity, "is prevarication." The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z Fancy Jenny being offered twenty pounds for a day’s prevarication and refusing it! The Late Tenant 2011-03-28T02:00:25.153Z This string of prevarications ran on for about twenty pages more, repeating, ad nauseam, the same falsehoods with all legal alliteration and more than legal license. The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z Of course the five old members felt this was downright prevarication, but it seemed the easiest way to rid themselves of unpleasant explanations to the other girls. The Woodcraft Girls in the City 2011-03-27T02:00:11.007Z Behold what tissues of prevarication and perfidy, of violence and of ruse! The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z The prevarications of Lane were said to have produced this result. The Middle Period 1817-1858 2011-03-14T03:01:05.737Z But that she should come secretly, trembling like a guilty creature,—compromising herself and me by a midnight visit,—afraid to confess why she wanted the money,—answering my straight questions by hesitation and prevarication! The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z Again and again Mr. Huntington urged the necessity of this falsehood being told, childishly forgetting the fact that such prevarications would have been useless, as all Californians knew the truth. The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z This wretched prevarication, this double dealing, could not go on any longer. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z In the face of the indisputable fact that neither husband nor child approved of the change she had made in her coiffure, Regina entered upon a course of what can only be called complete prevarication. The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker A Novel 2011-03-01T03:00:46.487Z A lie of any sort is base, and a prevarication is only a mean lie. Mrs. Geoffrey 2011-02-27T03:00:29.460Z It has saved him some prevarication, and me some passion. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. 2011-02-18T03:00:19.343Z I allow nothing for prevarication, and I spare no sin or weakness, however plausible may be the excuse which the sinner offers. Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 2 of 3) 2011-02-17T03:00:19.937Z "Mr. Sidney, long ago you were proud of being straightforward in your speech—of telling the plain truth, without prevarication." Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 3 of 3) 2011-02-16T03:00:37.273Z So Regina entered upon a course of what I may call harmless prevarication. The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker A Novel 2011-03-01T03:00:46.487Z Her pride would not stoop to a denial or a prevarication; and, indeed, neither would have availed. Under a Charm, Vol. II. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-14T03:00:34.173Z "A poor Candidate has no means wherewith to dress himself elegantly," Pigglewitch replied, colouring in spite of himself at the girl's reproof, the truth of which he could not deny, and taking refuge in prevarication. Quicksands 2011-01-15T03:00:33.213Z This disappearance seemed to him an act of prevarication, almost a piece of rudeness. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z In matters where your Church is concerned, Mr. Carmel, I have heard that prevarication is a merit. Willing to Die 2010-12-20T17:12:00.040Z The moment Sativex goes on the market, the need for medical dispensaries, caregivers and growers—and all the confusions and prevarications that attend them—disappears. How Marijuana Got Mainstreamed 2010-12-01T16:55:00Z Osborne looks set to spin the payout as an example of coalition compassion, in contrast to Labour prevarication. Equitable Life's policyholders will get ?1.5bn. But is that fair when the axe is falling elsewhere? 2010-10-16T23:08:00Z He could not possibly say this, and again he had recourse to prevarication. Quicksands 2011-01-15T03:00:33.213Z Someone’s lying here, man on the platform or the company that has practiced prevarication from Alaska to Louisiana. The three causes of BP's oil disaster 2010-05-10T18:59:00Z I don't say that you have any certainty of recovering a place in your uncle's esteem, but the slightest prevarication in matters of this kind would be simply suicidal. Willing to Die 2010-12-20T17:12:00.040Z The main thing investors are looking for, after months of prevarication in Europe, is if Greece gets the money. Euro Slides Again; BP Sends London Lower 2010-05-04T13:01:00Z The time for horse-trading, prevarication and posturing is over. Greek debt crisis: Euro leaders call emergency summit to avert meltdown 2010-04-28T20:57:00Z But delays and prevarication, boycotts and legal challenges are the weapons being used by him. Trying patience 2010-02-28T21:36:00Z She had not supposed that matters would have gone so far in so short a time, and resented the prevarication on Caroline's account and on her own. Capricious Caroline Open and avowed principles—fully proclaimed and strictly carried out were frankly and without prevarication or disguise submitted to the people by him. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution If their system of morality makes virtues of "prevarication, perjury, and every crime, when it serves ghostly purposes," the reproach is fatal. The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion Go into the cemetery and there you will find them mingling with the dust, but striving still to perpetuate their business by marking their tombs with a gentle prevarication, chiseled in enduring stone. Cordwood They were 'dark and cunning adepts at prevarication, children in the conduct of affairs.' The Unveiling of Lhasa "Ruth Annersley," he answers, without hesitation, feeling that any prevarication at this moment will only make matters worse for the unhappy girl. Faith and Unfaith Therefore, like many another in a like difficulty, he took refuge in prevarication—to use which well requires, in a man, much practice and considerable solidity of treatment. The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion There was so much obscurely said of "larceny, simony, prevarication"! Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 This task was further complicated by the parsimony and prevarication of Elizabeth. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" Which was all a prevarication, Tabby, though to the letter true. Tried for Her Life A Sequel to "Cruel As the Grave" "I ask, sir,—and I mean you to understand that I will suffer no prevarication,—is that document in your writing?" A Day's Ride A Life's Romance The latter confessed, without any prevarication, the commerce that her aunt, herself, and the others had had with the provincial of the Carmelites, the prior of Lerma, and other friars of the first rank. Priests, Women, and Families The faults of these persons are trickery in business affairs, prevarication, and laziness. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 She has not," said he, "told an absolute falsehood, but in what she said there was prevarication, there was pride, there was passion. Coelebs In Search of a Wife Shorty," said the officer with a smile, "I admire your talents for prevarication more than I can express. Si Klegg, Book 5 (of 6) The Deacon's Adventures At Chattanooga In Caring For The Boys It will be remembered that General C. was sent to Newgate for prevarication on that account, not having recollected in time this circumstance. Old and New London Volume I His “Nay, nay,” and “Yea, yea,” will outlast and outshine their double-tongued prevarication and flattery. Talkers With Illustrations This is all useless prevarication, you know—we have some very important questions to ask you. I'll Leave It To You A Light Comedy In Three Acts "The thing is a trifle in itself," replied he, "but infant prevarication unnoticed, and unchecked, is the prolific seed of subterfuge, of expediency, of deceit, of falsehood, of hypocrisy." Coelebs In Search of a Wife Please reply to this question, yes or no, without prevarication. Miss Cayley's Adventures Even a white-ribboner would call mulled claret delicious or get a black mark from the recording angel for prevarication. Breakfasts and Teas Novel Suggestions for Social Occasions He speaks the truth in everything, everywhere, and to every one, without equivocation, prevarication, or unjust hyperbolism. Talkers With Illustrations Then there was the sickness, the ophthalmia, the fevers; and the failed harvest, the groping inexperience, and the fight against a narrow-minded administration—always putting off its prevarications. Letters from my Windmill But when one treats of a crime against society, the pardon is not an act of clemency, it is a downright prevarication.... The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. This was a prevarication which she instantly repented. Money Magic A Novel By trying to tell Claude's story without including his own he was, for the first time since the days of school-boy escapades, making a deliberate attempt at prevarication. The Side Of The Angels A Novel The art of prevarication was unknown to her; though, as has been seen, she could lie upon occasion, with a large and primitive simplicity. Kildares of Storm Balaam gave a straightforward reply, for he doubtless knew that prevarication and subterfuge were useless with God. Bible Romances First Series I detest pitiful prevarication, sir,” cried the Vicar warmly. The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam The earl havered to the end of his breath and his prevarications, like a clock which had run down. Graham of Claverhouse It was the second rash, together with Henry's emphatic and positive statement that he was perfectly well, which had finally urged his relatives to a desperate step—a step involving intrigue and prevarication. A Great Man A Frolic For prevarication was an accomplishment Diana knew nothing of. Diana The particular color of this stupendous prevarication I am still unable to determine.... The Cruise of the Shining Light "An elder brother, let me tell you, Miss Manvers, is the best possible preceptor in prevarication." Nobody If he happens to be guilty of anything and says he isn’t and cuts the fowl’s koko off,––he is sure to die for his prevarication. The Spoilers of the Valley No, we are not to be done out of our Russians by any mere Under-Secretary for War; certainly not one who is capable of such prevarication. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 25, 1914 If you declare that the people of one city cannot be composed to peace, what should we make of the whole world's universe were it deceived by our prevarication? The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I "You'll tell us—when there's anything to tell?" begged his mother, as they went down to dinner; and Eric felt that he might have saved his elaborate prevarications for a more gullible audience. The Education of Eric Lane Any hard name will be too soft for such a moral prevarication. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 He was generally hated for his subtle malicious ways, and for an inveterate habit of prevarication which won for him also the title of “prince of lies.” Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas His honor is the only witness to which we appeal; and should he be even capable of prevarication or falsehood, we admit no proof of the fact. Patrician and Plebeian Or The Origin and Development of the Social Classes of the Old Dominion My dear Conrad, you know as well as I do that is a mere prevarication. Somehow Good But Warwick often asked much blunter ones, always told the naked truth without prevarication or delay, and straightway answered— "The thought of the woman whom I hope to make my wife." Moods This prevarication, which was equal to a refusal, offended the Bretaks, as it was an infringement of the Sakai custom of sharing like brothers all they possessed. My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) As to Samuel's prevarications, there is only one explanation that will fit, now that the rest is made clear. The Red Triangle Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator The quick threatening manner in which the speaker grasped his gun, told Stebbins that prevarication would be idle. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness "Oh, let us see the roses," says Mrs. Steele, calmly ignoring the wretch's prevarication, for I know to the first question he said "Yes." Under the Southern Cross So answer the questions I put to you without concealment or prevarication.” The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley Cicily continued, following blindly an instinct of prevarication that had been suddenly born within her brain. Making People Happy So for this reason, and not only because it is considered wrong, prevarication is never practised on Mars. To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story First I want you to answer a question or two, straightly, without prevarication. Captain Desmond, V.C. Gentlemen, I would willingly forget all his prevarications, but I must take notice of them in short, to come to the truth. State Trials, Political and Social Volume 1 (of 2) His prevarication and double-dealing as a popular leader in the pay of the king had long been known. Lectures on the French Revolution Or what a piacular prevarication is it to borrow from any other church which was less reformed, a pattern of policy for this church which was more reformed. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) He had so ingenious a manner of prevarication that he actually believed his own tales. A Pirate of Parts One or the other of them had not told the truth, and he was inclined to believe that the prevarication had its source in the pomegranate lips of the Calabrian. The Place of Honeymoons But, as he was waiting to be answered, I had to collect my thoughts and admit, not without a little bashfulness, that my first account of my exploit had contained a slight prevarication. The Light of Scarthey From misrepresentation of the words of Christ, he passed to prevarication and direct falsehood, accusing the Son of God of a design to humiliate him before the inhabitants of heaven. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan The hardest point of all is, so to embrace and follow reformation as to be ashamed of former prevarications and pollutions. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) Indeed he can do both so perfectly that he actually lives in the characters he temporarily creates and believes his own prevarications, and that, it must be admitted, is some achievement. A Dixie School Girl "I don't know" he said, and from the prevarication seconds of silence ensued with the discomfort of it, like the sweat, humidity, and filth of the open air clinging to his skin. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais After a little prevarication, the woman signed a written confession that she was an impostor, and had "occasionally taken sustenance for the last six years." Fasting Girls Their Physiology and Pathology The club does not permit the slightest vestige of prevarication. Betty Vivian A Story of Haddo Court School He certainly would not have been a party to a lying and wicked prevarication. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography Let no one deceive the brotherhood by a falsehood; let no one corrupt the truth by a perfidious prevarication. A Source Book for Ancient Church History "What did he say to explain it?" inquired Polly, with maiden's curiosity in learning to what extent of prevarication a deacon would go in order to make three hundred dollars. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Yet she colored as if it was a prevarication. The Girls at Mount Morris Women, like men, often do not know that the big prizes gravitate where they belong; instead, they set traps for them, lie in wait and consider prevarication and duplicity better than truth. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 His own subsequent contradiction of the issue to him of any commission from the French Crown has been represented by modern writers as a dishonest prevarication. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography The practically unanimous condemnation which Clive's countrymen then and since have passed upon his action with regard to the Red Treaty is the best answer to all such pitiful prevarications. A History of the Four Georges, Volume II But mixed up with this religious obstinacy is a goodly jigger of secretiveness, and in order to gain his own point the religion of the owner does not prevent him from prevarication. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers "I don't know that I have any," replied Steering, with wretched prevarication. Sally of Missouri That Kant was not above a little pious prevarication is shown by a story he himself tells. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 It is useless for you to attempt any further prevarication. The Albert Gate Mystery Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective There was no prevarication or difficulty with the only witness examined. Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1) From the Original Family Documents I scorn a lie—my prayer is to leave every prevarication behind. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers "If the Queen should come to Chicago she would live here," and I comforted myself by saying, "You shall have your hour of wonder and romance, even at the expense of a prevarication." A Daughter of the Middle Border Legend is enriched by the picturesque fates of those who have historically affronted Heaven with prevarications no more flagrant than this. Little Miss Grouch A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage I never knew another man so fertile in the art of prevarication. The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice But long ere this the culprit had appeared before a tribunal which admits of no prevarication, and the pretty boy with the golden curls had become lord of Dangerfield Hall. Kate Coventry An Autobiography If there is anything that annoys, irritates, or makes me dissatisfied with the men—the gentlemen under my command, it is evasion, shuffling, shirking, or prevarication.” Trapped by Malays A Tale of Bayonet and Kris There is something degrading in a falsehood or prevarication, which must injure the self-respect of a man of proper feeling. Manco, the Peruvian Chief An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas I’ll have a straightforward statement, without any prevarication, or I give you over at once into custody. Frank Oldfield Lost and Found His arm tightened over her hand, but he made no attempt at prevarication. Big Game A Story for Girls Fraud, conscious or unconscious, seems ubiquitous throughout the range of physical phenomena of spiritism, and false pretence, prevarication and fishing for clues are ubiquitous in the mental manifestations of mediums. Memories and Studies Generals, magistrates, bishops, all crimes, all prevarications, all degrees of complicity, seek refuge for their ignominy behind this vote. Napoleon the Little Tell me, without prevarication,—were you, or were you not in the Park, walking with a gentleman, on the morning you left for Mrs. Brahan's? Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author Yet these fair blossoms were always nipped in the bud: for want of constancy we soon fell back into our former sloth and disorders, adding to our other prevarications that of base infidelity. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March He was more than a good judge of character: hollow prevarication was useless with him, and bluff—though, when he liked, he was himself a master of it—a dangerous policy. The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry "My dear Benny, an unconvincing prevarication is of less practical value than—" he began, but he was interrupted by the appearance of a young lady who came through the doorway. White Ashes The principle of State regulation, against the adoption of which in America every art of prevarication has been employed, that principle is fully accepted by the English medical profession to-day. An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals "I simply hold you, under pain of being convicted of the grossest prevarication, to the strict sense of what you said ten minutes ago." The Tragic Muse The protracted course of fraud and prevarication practiced by Mr. Lincoln's Administration in the months of March and April has been fully exhibited. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government He was sold to unsuspecting farmers, who, when his evil traits cropped out, swapped him unceremoniously and with ingenious prevarication by the roadside. Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle It was a case for a slight prevarication. The Red Horizon But there is another, much more subtle form of prevarication. The Patient Observer And His Friends "Who am I that I should know the secrets of another woman's soul?" she replied, with unhesitating prevarication. The Mummy and Miss Nitocris A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension These efforts had been met, not by an open avowal of coercive purposes, but by evasion, prevarication, and perfidy. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government It does not appear that Stoughton doubted as much as one syllable of this remarkable set of prevarications. Rebel Raider Their prevarication and procrastination are at times almost maddening. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. He therefore skips the ignoble interlude of prevarication, quibble, and intrigue, and gives us Uncle Sam happy at last in his recovered simplicity. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers The deliberate policy of subterfuge and prevarication by which they had sought to deceive us, as to the progress of the case, was so raw as to require little comment. A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium Also, in the same nonchalant fashion, he produced from time to time the necessary materials, weaving a fairy web of prevarication when questioned too closely as to their source. Flood Tide In this way only do the Moors shine as politicians, unless prevarication and procrastination be included, Machiavellian arts in which they easily excel. Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond I doubted if young Susan had attained the years of prevarication as yet. The Heart's Kingdom The mysteries and prevarications necessary to keep an unimportant secret, were, she reasoned, worse for them than a little anxiety. Gypsy's Cousin Joy "We've had enough of your prevarications—" Then, suddenly, without the faintest shadow of warning, from the centre of the lake a vast geyser of water towered a hundred feet in the air. Police!!! While Charles showed his native disposition by prevarication, Buckingham showed his by an impatience that soon led to anger and insolence. Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) The Romance of Reality I had hitherto preserved my lips untainted by prevarication or falsehood. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 In this case no innocent prevarication would serve. The Second Latchkey This, my Lords, is to be one of the set-offs against all the crimes, against the multiplied frauds, cruelties, and oppressions, all the corrupt practices, prevarications, and swindlings, that we have alleged against him. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) I will not listen to any more of your prevarications. Tales from the Hindu Dramatists He is let into various contradictory secrets, and becomes acquainted with innumerable frauds, falsehoods, and prevarications. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) There were no motives to reserve or prevarication. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 You aren't used to prevarication, and that is what is demanded at this time. Coffee and Repartee I shall then take notice of the juridical constructions upon which he justifies his acting in this extraordinary manner; and lastly, show you the concealments, prevarications, and falsehoods with which he endeavors to cover it. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) He was instantly ashamed of the innocent prevarication. An Alabaster Box There is in this such a complication of ingratitude and fraud, prevarication and perverseness, philosophical hypocrisy and perfidious moderation, that on the instant we rally round the decrees and around yourselves. History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution His speech is a tissue of falsehoods and prevarications: if he uses a fact, it is only to twist it into a form of self-justification. An Introduction to the Study of Browning With what prevarications have not the greatest philosophers guarded themselves even at the risk of being absurd, inconsistent, and unintelligible whenever their ideas did not correspond with the principles of theology! Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense The order of the proceeding, as far as I am able to trace such a scene of prevarication, direct fraud, falsehood, and falsification of the public accounts, was this. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) That was simply a little prevarication to worry you, my uncle, after the manner in which you have worried me. The Princess Elopes How could she accuse her own father of prevarication? Sunrise Mr. Biggs claimed to have got his hurt by a fall from his horse, pride leading him to clothe the facts in prevarication. A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy "I insist upon it," the Duke said sternly, "that you tell me what you know at once and without further prevarication." The Betrayal Now do you want an instance of prevarication and trickery in an account? The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) You will marry—marry Jerrold," gasped Mr. Stillinghast; "but do—not—forget—that your prevarications—may ruin his soul—with your own. May Brooke "But I cannot tell a falsehood," she replied; "my religion differs from yours; it forbids prevarication, and had you stood by me with your knife raised, I could not have said what you suggest." Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons It may take the form of exaggerated speech, of courteous or cowardly prevarication, or of downright falsehood, but, in whatever guise, it is a curse to the owner thereof as well as to his family. The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) But the next moment she smiled a trifle bitterly, for she had reminded herself of her husband's proved facility of prevarication, which she felt certain would already have been usefully employed. A Comedy of Masks A Novel I have stated the series of frauds, prevarications, concealments, and all that mystery of iniquity, which I waded through with pain to myself, I am sure, and with infinite pain, I fear, to your Lordships. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) He reflected that the few hundreds that the loss of the ancient Dobson called for lifted this statement out of the cheap level of prevarication. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul He was getting deeper and deeper into the mire of deceit and prevarication, and there seemed to be no escape. Square Deal Sanderson A messenger was sent to the governor to arrange the capitulation, but when he was met by prevarication and pleas for delay the bombardment was once more resumed. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India To adduce such inaccuracies as evidence of prevarication is itself an insincere act and puts the claimant by right in the Ananias Club. Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation What a strange medley of evasion, pretended discovery, real concealment, fraud, and prevarication appears in every part of this letter! The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) But he turned away, fearing that the brisk steward might read prevarication in his face. Idolatry A Romance "What!" cried the young man, with some warmth, "is not the word of Eveline sufficient to outweigh the prevarications of a thousand tricksters like this Spikeman?" The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance "Oh, what a prevarication, Fabian Rockharrt, when every word, every deed, every look you bestowed on me went to assure me that you loved me and wished to marry me!" For Woman's Love The emperor seems now to have become involved in an inextricable maze of prevarication and duplicity, striving in one court to accomplish purposes which in other courts he was denying that he wished to accomplish. The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power Such a system of cogging, such a system of fraud, such a system of prevarication, such a system of falsehood, never was, I believe, before exhibited in the world. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) His invariable course as a diplomatist has been to leave the way open to prevarication, to keep his opinions in a cloud, and to confound sense with ambiguity. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 In such a case it gave him a reputation for candor under which he could, with more safety, avail himself of his disingenuity and prevarication. The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One But his grand, simple, truthful spirit perceived no prevarication in her words. For Woman's Love And such a thrashing as I received, at her hand, would have made the blackest villain out of purgatory confess his sins without prevarication! The Fatal Glove I am almost ashamed to remark upon the tergiversations and prevarications perpetually ringing the changes in this declaration. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) This total change of language and prevarication in principle is enough, if it stood alone, to fix the presumption of unfair dealing. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) Whoever has the patience to go through the French memorials, in their procedure with our commissaries, may see such instances of their pitiful prevarications, petty-fogging chicanery, quirks, and evasions, as would nauseate one. An Account of the Customs and Manners of the Micmakis and Maricheets Savage Nations, Now Dependent on the Government of Cape-Breton "You must come now!" she replied, in a peremptory tone, which admitted of no prevarication. Heiress of Haddon I did not tell her what I thought of the old auntie, though I could not repress a smile at her frankness, which pleased me more than prevarication would have done. Bessie's Fortune A Novel But that prevarication, at least, had been for no purpose of self gain. Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod The poor wretch, who still had the goat by the horns, denied the story, but in such a way that we feared he would only injure his conscience by other prevarications if we encouraged him. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 If not a lie, it was a prevarication. A Noble Life In the face of such evasion and prevarication it was out of the question to let the matter drop. Ulster's Stand For Union He claims a privilege of systematic inconstancy, a privilege of prevarication, a privilege of contradiction,—a privilege of not only changing his conduct, but the principles of his conduct, whenever it suits his occasions. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12) With considerable misgiving she discerned that another occasion for prevarication was unavoidable, and something like a sigh escaped her lips; but as suddenly fear gave way to a feeling of elation. Nedra He had made her realize the utter futility of prevarication. Rosa Mundi and Other Stories I question whether the great preponderance of the Chinese people speak six consecutive sentences without misrepresentation or exaggeration, tantamount to prevarication. Across China on Foot Antonyms: See indecent. deception, n. imposition, craft, duplicity, deceit, hoax, fallacy, ruse, imposture, artifice, illusion, prevarication, finesse, dissimulation, cozenage, sophistry, coggery. Putnam's Word Book The man of fraud falls into contradiction, prevarication, confusion. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12) The prevarication had been uttered, and Grace felt as if she had committed a crime and punishment was at hand. Nedra When I speak of sin I will be understood to mean the venial offences of prevarication and sleeping in church. Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series In respect of prevarication, it seems to be absolutely universal; the poor copy the vice from the rich. Across China on Foot What a mixture of impudence and prevarication is this! The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 04 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 2 "It's a beautiful late Monday morn, Hilda," she said in the hope that from placating words and prevarications the noxious mood would disperse and vanish into air like smoke. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America "You scoundrel," said Legrand, hissing out the syllables from between his clenched teeth, "you infernal black villain! speak, I tell you! answer me this instant, without prevarication! which—which is your left eye?" Short-Stories He is a covenanted servant here, having passed an examination in gang robbery accompanied by violence and prevarication. Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series If the authorities attempt to elicit the facts by a course of examination, they only obtain subterfuges and prevarications, and seek in vain by threats or promises to shake the constancy of the witnesses. A Voyage Round the World, Volume I Including Travels in Africa, Asia, Australasia, America, etc., etc., from 1827 to 1832 It would have been mere cowardly prevarication to lock it away under circumstances which took the matter out of the dominion of "luck" altogether. What I Remember, Volume 2 From this time at the clothesline she learned that everything was a myth or prevarication and the only kind of reality that existed was her own self and the natural forces that beamed onto her. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America Mr. Wayne, this prevarication is as useless as it is unseemly. Fort Lafayette or, Love and Secession But this presumption ought not to have been allowed to excuse prevarication about testimony. The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, Including the Ladrones, Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico The Eldorado of the Orient She hated prevarications and concealments, but if she must conceal something, she should have concealed more. The Adventures of Captain Horn Her conscience was not troubled by the prevarication. Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 But, she argued in solitary inward dialogues within herself, which she found to be the most engaging form of companionship, that did not necessarily mean that her quiet tiptoeing prevarications were lies. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America Arthur handed him the letter, somewhat to the other's surprise, for he had certainly been watching for an attempt at its destruction, or at least was prepared for prevarication and stratagem. Fort Lafayette or, Love and Secession He called things by their right names; and what others styled prevarication, exaggeration, misstatement or hyperbole, he called a lie. Forty Years in South China The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D. And Ethel disguised her newly wedded state by a series of ingenious prevarications. Love and Mr. Lewisham Since lately we have had a great deal of prevarication in our courts of justice about receiving the oaths of deists, &c., The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 286, December 8, 1827 By their mere arrangement, their emphasis, and their plausibility, deceit was done without the need for prevarications, obfuscations, mendacities, and outright lies. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America I said I'd a treat for you; now tell me without prevarication--will you have sleeve-links with a cipher or a monogram? M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." After a great deal of prevarication on all parts but his own, it was declared that he must die under his former sentence, now fifteen years old. A Child's History of England Yet such was the consequence of his prevarication that he could not obey the call. Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories As a young child his mother had to correct him much for prevarications. Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology In commenting on the trial the following day, the Times stigmatised as "feeble" the prevarications by which Mrs. Dyson tried to explain away her intimacy with Peace. A Book of Remarkable Criminals And first let us inquire whether this at least singular idea of original prevarication had not, somewhere in the Christian theology, its correlative. System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery In a confusion of ideas, probably not intending a wilful prevarication, she answered hurriedly— 'If he's dead, how can you meet him?' A Pair of Blue Eyes Sue had not the art of prevarication, and, after admitting several facts as to their late difficulties and wanderings, she was startled by the landlady saying suddenly: "Are you really a married woman?" Jude the Obscure All told, there was nothing so striking about this whole case as the extravagant tendencies towards prevarication. Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology When a child resorts to prevarication he is already old enough to know the difference between a truthful statement and a false statement. Your Child: Today and Tomorrow Vignan, after a good deal of prevarication, confessed that his story was false, and that what the Indian chief had stated was a simple fact. Canadian Notabilities, Volume 1 Enid hesitated; the prevarication did not come so easily as she had expected. The Crimson Blind The old policy of prevarication was resorted to. The Beautiful and Damned His habits of prevarication have been kept up steadily, so it is stated. Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology One type of lying that is very irritating and very hard to meet is that known as prevarication. Your Child: Today and Tomorrow Here was no concealment; no prevarication respecting the whole truth; and how much better was this than any attempt at evasion or dishonesty! Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I Calendar, he believed, was capable of prevarication, polite and impolite. The Black Bag "My dear cousin," Pao-yü said to her smilingly, "tell me without any prevarication which of the three characters is the best written?" Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books One trouble in gauging his memory is, of course, the boy's prevarications, but one might argue that if his memory processes were as good as his other abilities he would make equal use of them. Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology The nice distinction of simulation and dissimulation depends but on the trick of a syllable; palliation and extenuation are universally allowable in self-defence; prevarication inevitably follows, and falsehood "is but in the next degree." Tales and Novels — Volume 04 "Now, I consider that sort of thing worse than a direct prevarication." In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories Cosmo had said nothing of the kind, but Blank's prevarication had its intended effect, and fortunately, before the lapse of another six hours, there was news from under the sea. The Second Deluge I must ask you to look me full in the face, Miss Wilmot," he added, laughingly, drawing her towards him as he spoke; "for I begin to fancy you're addicted to prevarication. Henry Dunbar A Novel The mental conditions leading to purposeless prevarication which supervene in the real hysterical mental states, or during the course of traumatic psychoneurosis are well known. Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology Do you think I am to be put off by feminine prevarication—by womanly trickery? Lady Audley's Secret Faith heard him without betraying any of her ordinary waywardness, and answered with as little prevarication as the subject seemed to demand. The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish The difficulty of telling the whole had increased to Lady Cecilia, even from the hesitation and prevarication she had now made. Tales and Novels — Volume 10 I know—some of you do not personally indulge in the general prevarication, but you tolerate it in your colleagues. The Saint We have heard it suggested in several cases by relatives that the menstrual period, for instance, brings about an access of tendency to prevarication. Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology There was no room for flight, or ambiguity, or prevarication. Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker If she could but speak frankly and show all her difficulty to the friend who had never yet failed in love and sympathy——She sought refuge in prevarication. The Shadow of the East There seemed no great temptation to prevarication either, for the general's question was not of a formidable nature, not what the lawyers call a leading question, rather one that led to nothing. Tales and Novels — Volume 10 Billy Dawson used to say that there were three degrees of comparison—a prevarication, a lie, and an official account. The Mystery of Cloomber But beyond this we would insist that a combination of verbal ability with proportionate mental defects in other fields gives a make-up which finds the paths of least resistance directly along the lines of prevarication. Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology It was from Frey Miguel, after a thousand prevarications and tergiversations, that the full truth—known to himself alone—was extracted by the rack. The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series "By the way, South," he suggested after the commonplaces had been disposed of, "you'll pardon my little prevarication the other evening about having met you at the Manhattan Club?" The Call of the Cumberlands Serenely objective, he discards those subterfuges which are the usual safeguard of youth or inexperience—the evasions, reservations and prevarications that defend the shallow, the weak, the self-conscious. Alone The only time he gave me a thrashing was for prevarication. The Early Life of Mark Rutherford (W. Hale White) Anything like a complete account of Gertrude's prevarications, even as we know them, would require much space. Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology No prevarication, sir,’ he added, as the only too familiar look of consternation and bewilderment came over Clarence’s face. Chantry House "That will be the truth?" she questioned, with the prevarication of her sex inborn. The Lincoln Story Book A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Form "I shall accept no prevarication whatever," said I; "I demand a square answer, and it is your duty to give it; did I do right or wrong in that case?" A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences Witnesses examined under these rules are supposed to receive from them a strong stimulus in veracity and explicitness, while they at once expose prevarication or concealment. Reflections and Comments 1865-1895 Her word on even important points was absolutely unreliable and her own interests were frequently thwarted by her prevarications. Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology The fairy tribes appear to have been every where distinguished for their patronage of truth, simplicity and industry, and their abhorrence of sensuality and prevarication. Lives of the Necromancers Kedzie heard, in the polite lie he told, a certain tang of prevarication, and that frightened her. We Can't Have Everything The critics were dithyrambic in their discourses concerning the new "Dona Sol," but the casual reporters were, as always, indiscreet, and disguised the truth under little prevarications, fantastic and suggestive. The Idol of Paris But it appeared to him very remarkable that so much could happen, in so short a time, as the result of a mere momentary impulsive prevarication. Buried Alive: a Tale of These Days We were keen to know if Janet could remember her own prevarications and so asked her if she could recall what she had written to her mother. Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology Almost half a century of lies and hypocricies and prevarications and meannesses! Phantom Fortune, a Novel But, as it is, when the performance will follow the promise this very day, I feel entirely confident not only of avoiding any shame for prevarication but of surpassing all mankind in good repute. Dio's Rome, Volume 4 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form He was early accustomed to accuracy in all his statements, and to speak of his faults and omissions without prevarication or disguise. De La Salle Fifth Reader This challenge was met with prevarication, which enraged Don Quixote, and clapping spurs to Rozinante he bore down upon the company with his lance couched. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 02 — Fiction For that matter, she also fails to learn by experience, for very frequently she has suffered from her own prevarications. Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology The free use of tobacco by young people dulls the acuteness of the moral senses, often leads to prevarication and deceit in the indulgence, and is apt to draw one downward to bad associates. A Practical Physiology All biographies consist of prevarications and all autobiographies of fiction. The Glands Regulating Personality But the death of Fingal must be accounted for; and, let the consequence be what it might, it must be accounted for truly, and without prevarication. The Pilgrims of New England A Tale of the Early American Settlers Nothing seemed to be safe from the curiosity of this man, no secret secure, no prevarication of the slightest avail. The Sowers A home for delinquent girls, where she was once placed on account of her general bad behavior, would not put up with her, so much trouble arose from her prevarications. Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology I knew that I had been detected in some slip or prevarication. The House of the Whispering Pines Anything in the world, but prevarication, I can endure, with patience. Tenterhooks It was not that she at any one instant entertained an idea of the possibility of prevarication—it was the natural hesitation to extinguish the last spark of hope that remained for her sister. The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 One of Mark Twain's favourite themes for the display of his humour was the subject of prevarication. Mark Twain In the school for girls, where this unfortunate child remained for four years, it is stated that her tendencies to prevarication were mitigated, but never entirely checked. Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication. Lectures and Essays No prevarication, no shuffling would do here; if he said anything, if he answered at all, it must be the truth and nothing but the truth. Bessie Bradford's Prize Mary drew in her head with the quickness of conscious guilt; and whilst a color stained her face, which of itself might have betrayed her prevarication, she asked, "Who?" Thaddeus of Warsaw The memory of Paine was for many years covered beneath the garbage of prevarication. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers It would often be very hard to discern a purpose in it, and over and over again she has defeated her own ends by further indulgence in prevarications. Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology When we find a person in downright lying we cover the falsehood with the finely-spun cloak of the word prevarication. How to Speak and Write Correctly And then when things did begin to look bad for her, how she brazened it out, and what a desperate business it was to bring her shifts and prevarications to book! The Note-Books of Samuel Butler I told them, as gently as I could, the bare facts, deeming it wise to make no prevarication. Vicky Van Your merchant of that time was a peripatetic rogue who reduced prevarication to a system. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers I remember one instance as showing how particularly uncalled for his prevarications were. Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology You have simply discovered that I have not a leaning toward prevarication. A Day of Fate Mrs. Halliss opened the dcor to him respectfully, and after a faint attempt at innocent prevarication, felt bound to let out all the pitiful little secret without further preamble. Philistia These prevarications, this violence will not help you. The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca The splenetic capacity, the calumnious credulity, the pleasures of prevarication and of rolling falsehoods like a sweet morsel under the tongue, have made those thirty thousand Cromwell pamphlets possible. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers One sister was noted for her tendency to prevarication. Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology Without any prevarication as far as his own feelings were concerned, he had quite honestly chosen to serve Mammon. Winding Paths Tannis understood something of piano playing, something less of grammar and Latin, and something less still of social prevarications. Further Chronicles of Avonlea They are so accustomed to act upon inference that, finding themselves unable to substantiate their assertion by any sufficient reason, they become irritated, "show fight," and seek refuge in prevarication. Courts and Criminals He was so true to himself that he did not understand that there should be with her even that violet-coloured tinge of prevarication which women assume as an additional charm. The Way We Live Now At our last interview with Hazel before she was sent away, an interview which she prefaced by saying, ``I want to apologize for everything I did,'' the girl showed herself unable to avoid prevarications. Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology "No. He's -" Hall stopped short, considering the advantages of prevarication. Winding Paths It was sufficient to me then that my safety was secured by his own guilty consciousness and the prevarications into which it led him. Dark Hollow Any prevarication or attempt at mystification fell to the ground at once under the Senator's tremendous powers of inquiry. The American Senator Successful prevarication, e.g. in the case of Odysseus, was put at altogether too high a premium. A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life He proved to be willingly introspective and stated that his inclination to lie was a puzzle to him, and that while he was engaged in prevarications he believed in them. Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology She seemed suddenly to have nothing to say, and she knew herself to be no good at prevarication. Winding Paths Mr. Converse had rather keen vision in matters of prevarication, even when the lying was done adroitly with figures. The Landloper Excuses lead to prevarications, and prevarications to—what I will not insult you by imagining possible in your case. Basil The question was too precisely put to allow of any prevarication. The Clique of Gold The Spanish government, with characteristic double dealing, resorted to procrastination, prevarication and trickery, and thus gained time, until new issues effaced in the American mind the memory of old wrongs unavenged. Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom She had the cruel courage to conceal the truth by prevarication. Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends The old offender's assurance was sensibly diminished by this proof of her prevarication. Monsieur Lecoq If, however, it is not possible, and if a definite negative answer is given, let me know at once and without any prevarication; then I shall know where I am. Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1 On many occasions I have resorted to prevarication; but on great occasions I have always told the truth. Overruled |
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