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deceptive
«Looks are so deceptive that people should be done up like food packages with the ingredients clearly labeled»
Author: Helen Hudson
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deceptive, done up, ingredients, labeled, packaged, packages, packaging
«Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.»
Author: Jonathan Raban
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by fits and starts, contingencies, contingency, deceptive, embraces, fits, fragmentation, insists, rehearse, rehearsed, rehearses, rehearsing, simulation, simulations, the novel
«Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constraining influences of life disappear among graceful women and poetical men; they are the most deceptive beings in creation; distrust and doubt cannot stand before them; they create what they imagine; if they do not lie to others, they do to their own hearts; for illusion is their element, fiction their vocation, and pleasures in appearance their happiness. Beware of grace in woman, and poetry in man -- weapons the more dangerous because the least dreaded!»
Author: Marquis De Custine
(Writer)
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constrain, constraining, deceptive, distrust, dreaded, graceful, influences, poetical, rude, shocks, uncomfortably, vocation
«Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.»
«MACHINATION, n. The method employed by one's opponents in baffling one's open and honorable efforts to do the right thing.So plain the advantages of machination It constitutes a moral obligation, And honest wolves who think upon't with loathing Feel bound to don the sheep's deceptive clothing. So prospers still the diplomatic art, And Satan bows, with hand upon his heart. --R.S.K.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
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Silence
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arduous, clearer, clearness, crystal, crystals, crystal clear, deceptive, elusive, finds, quest, questing, quest after, resolves, resolving, the Crystal, The Path
«Meditate on the Immaculate Lord, and saturate your mind with Him. Why, O Yogi, do you make so many false and deceptive claims?»