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  • Trying to seize the initiative, he continued, "I can't anticipate all your tricks, but even with the sun, perhaps your despicable illusionist can still somehow make the deception seem real.†   (source)
  • This pattern of deception has to do with cultural pressure.†   (source)
  • The bright blue sky was deceptive, and the frozen sidewalk crunched beneath their feet.†   (source)
  • Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging.†   (source)
  • Life in the county was deceptively green and quiet—but he soon discovered that the hood came in different shapes and sizes.†   (source)
  • It was deceptive, the sunshine—it promised more than it could actually deliver.†   (source)
  • Deception upon deception, the thing in the pit mused aloud.†   (source)
  • And with the deception, all hope had vanished.†   (source)
  • The Professor, Part Two The Morrie I knew, the Morrie so many others knew, would not have been the man he was without the years he spent working at a mental hospital just outside Washington, D.C., a place with the deceptively peaceful name of Chestnut Lodge.†   (source)
  • The principal, unable to prove the deception, but certain that it had happened, finally let me go.†   (source)
  • There has been no deception, only the withholding of a few facts.†   (source)
  • I assume you realize her deceptions were another aspect of the testing?†   (source)
  • Stephano looked back at all these people silently, his face fluttering as he tried to decide whether to come clean, a phrase which here means "admit that he's really Count Olaf and up to no good," or perpetuate his deception, a phrase which here means "lie, lie, lie."†   (source)
  • For in Georgian Bay it is possible to imagine North America as it was—before the United States began the murderous deceptions and the unthinking carelessness that have all but spoiled it!†   (source)
  • On the morrow he would leave the road and strike out overland through field and bush and stream to throw off pursuit, but for the moment speed was more important than deception.†   (source)
  • To escape the wolf pack which all the other players became he created reverses and deceptions and acts of sheer mass hypnotism which were so extraordinary that they surprised even him; after some of these plays I would notice him chuckling quietly to himself, in a kind of happy disbelief.†   (source)
  • Together with my brother, Prince Tiberias the Seventh, of House Calore and House Jacos, you are accused of many violent and deplorable offenses against the crown, including deception, treason, terrorism, and murder.†   (source)
  • Then there's Peeta, who will be my partner in this deception, but how do I begin that conversation?†   (source)
  • The agreeable nullity of Leon's life was a polished artifact, its ease deceptive, its limitations achieved by invisible hard work and the accidents of character, none of which she could hope to rival.†   (source)
  • He said, "You don't look dangerous, but you are, and you blend with nature like a green snake, deceptive and deadly when you want to be."†   (source)
  • I follow him as we skirt the perimeter of the cove, being careful to avoid the marshland; it looks deceptively like grass, especially in the dark, but you can get sucked down almost knee deep before you realize the difference.†   (source)
  • But when you looked him in the eye you realized that his frailty was deceptive.†   (source)
  • Let's not have any deception here!†   (source)
  • The Germans find the documents; the deception wins the war.†   (source)
  • 'Now,' he said, his voice deceptively calm.†   (source)
  • As for people seeing through his deceptions, they'll believe whatever he wants them to.†   (source)
  • Alice stood straight, deceptively motionless.†   (source)
  • I hadn't told Kim, either, so it wasn't like Adam was getting special deception treatment.†   (source)
  • The deception had worked.†   (source)
  • I was in a panic because I'm not built for subterfuge and deception.†   (source)
  • From where Kassad hung, twisting with the lurch and tumble of the ship, he could see a score or more of bodies, naked and torn, each moving with the deceptive underwater-ballet grace of the zero-gravity dead.†   (source)
  • This was a time when "benevolent deception" was a common practice—doctors often withheld even the most fundamental information from their patients, sometimes not giving them any diagnosis at all.†   (source)
  • Part of me laughed knowingly; the ads were comical in their deception.†   (source)
  • We know that the world is not all sleight of hand and deception because here we are in it, we are part of it.†   (source)
  • But I told him that I needed his help because our report would require a certain degree of deception if we were to avoid any suspicion from the officials.†   (source)
  • Toward the back of the room, in deceptively clean clothes, August, Georgia, and some of the other Northern rebels sat at a table by themselves.†   (source)
  • Except for a car parked at the street curb directly in front, everything looked deceptively normal.†   (source)
  • The people lying in wait would run out of the doorways, hastily snatch up the loot, retreat indoors again, and a deceptive silence, full of expectation, nervousness and secret whispering would fall over the street once more, for minutes on end.†   (source)
  • Michael's body was indeed wide, but deceptively so.†   (source)
  • Perhaps this is just more self-deception, yet another attempt to prove to myself that I'm not worthless.†   (source)
  • Long, heavy lashes made Denver's eyes seem busier than they were; deceptive, even when she held a steady gaze as she did now on Paul D. "No," she said.†   (source)
  • I'm sorry for its deception and your disappointment, but you need to leave.†   (source)
  • Maybe another of my deceptions is thinking I have the constitution and patience to work in the mental health field full-time.†   (source)
  • The October's size was deceptive.†   (source)
  • Luma gave her players their positions— Josiah, the tall, slightly bowlegged Liberian with deceptive speed at left forward; Jeremiah Ziaty on the right.†   (source)
  • If he were not picking the pocket of a dead man in an alley, he was at the greatest gambling tables in the richest salons of the city, using his vampire keenness to suck gold and dollars and deeds of property from young planters' sons who found him deceptive in his friendship and alluring in his charm.†   (source)
  • The plainclothesman's self-conscious walk might be as deliberately deceptive as his sleepy look.†   (source)
  • It was a calm that made Clary think of the deceptive hard sheen of ice just before it cracked under your weight.†   (source)
  • She got to be so sincere in the deception that she ended up by consoling herself with her own lies.†   (source)
  • There's deception in his words, Jessica thought.†   (source)
  • But under the deceptively clean and level slate the topography was the same, and instead of San Francisco or Europe or Mars I would be learning the old landscape, brook and hill and tree.†   (source)
  • Suppose he robbed you through deception.†   (source)
  • The way it made the community look bad "I am embarrased [sic] that this girl is getting this much press for something that does nothing for the community except renforce [sic] that fact that in the Yakima County there is a high number of hispanic [sic] girls who get pregnant ...She is a cruel and selfish little girl who needs to learn that her actions not only affect her but her family and ultimently [sic] her entire community" The deception "I mean COME ON who did she really help?†   (source)
  • The library was a work in progress, but first impressions were deceptive.†   (source)
  • 'This is not the story of a wife's deception.†   (source)
  • He had caused Norah pain; his deception had made her suffer in ways he had never imagined or intended.†   (source)
  • It is, of course, generally accepted today that Herr Ribbentrop was a trickster: that it was Hitler's plan throughout those years to deceive England for as long as possible concerning his true intentions, and that Herr Ribbentrop's sole mission in our country was to orchestrate this deception.†   (source)
  • His touch was deceptively soft, which made it all the more painful to endure.†   (source)
  • IN 1995, THE American Academy of Pediatrics declared that "advertising directed at children is inherently deceptive and exploits children under eight years of age?'†   (source)
  • (Not much of a deceptive type) Fine, Mis' Johnson, h'you†   (source)
  • It was deceptively smooth, but it had the strength to drag a man under in a heartbeat.†   (source)
  • but it's also deceptive.†   (source)
  • The Monster Loves to Talk He jumps into your head and opens your mouth, making it spout your deepest darkest deceptions.†   (source)
  • Technically, trafficking is often defined as taking someone (by force or deception) across an international border.†   (source)
  • She is reaching out to me with a touch deceptive as down, with hands and fingers that wave like grass around my feet, and her hair falls and falls and falls from her head like streamers of paper rain.†   (source)
  • Five years after the amputation, the hand looked deceptively normal, though on closer study the index finger was missing.†   (source)
  • Etta and Mattie had taken totally different roads that with all of their deceptive winding had both ended up on Brewster Place.†   (source)
  • I could hear the deceptively normal sound of their voices as they laughed and talked.†   (source)
  • You know the call's deceptive.†   (source)
  • It can be a deceptive monster.†   (source)
  • Not that the photo necessarily is a photo of yourself; it may well be some betterlooking stranger, but such deception would obviously backfire in time.†   (source)
  • He's a survival artist, an expert in disguise and deception.†   (source)
  • I had thought my deception would be for only a few weeks.†   (source)
  • And I said to myself, Doubtless this is some other deception.†   (source)
  • All the evidence — the hair, the jacket, the champagne had been an incredible deception.†   (source)
  • I am broad-shouldered and well over six feet, while she is smaller than a Scholar woman, even, with a deceptively willowy form.†   (source)
  • Moody gradually succumbed to the deception, for he wanted to believe that normality lay upon the horizon.†   (source)
  • It just goes to show you how white folks can be deceived by their own deception.†   (source)
  • But as much as I wanted to, as deceptions and confrontations continued to mount up, I could never trust the one person I wanted to love.†   (source)
  • Yossarian often thought of scheming with some pilot he trusted to fake a crippled engine and then destroy the evidence of deception with a belly landing, but the only pilot he really trusted was McWatt, who was happiest where he was and still got a big boot out of buzzing his plane over Yossarian's tent or roaring in so low over the bathers at the beach that the fierce wind from his propellers slashed dark furrows in the water and whipped sheets of spray flapping back for seconds afterward.†   (source)
  • Certainly the distances had now all become hazy and deceptive, but there could be no doubt that the Downs were coming to an end.†   (source)
  • As they drove north through the unelectrified city, Kabul seemed deceptively peaceful.†   (source)
  • It's deceptive because we'd fight over a beer, insult each other's sister, but then we were ready to risk our lives for each other.†   (source)
  • —and opened the door to the Deception.†   (source)
  • It's all but certain that he had something to do with the deception of the Clockwork Parliament.†   (source)
  • Rebecca Bloomwood is the journalist who uncovered this story—Rebecca, do you think this kind of deception is commonplace?†   (source)
  • The deception had made her angry and suspicious, as was still readily evident.†   (source)
  • But once I began to focus on her weaknesses, a pattern of deceit, deception, and betrayal began to emerge.†   (source)
  • The promises made to guest workers and their families were acruel ruse, an evil deception.†   (source)
  • Though each has a personality as distinctive as the waterman who owns it, they look deceptively alike—a small cabin toward the bow, washboards wide enough for a man to stand on running from the point of the bow to the stern.†   (source)
  • Almost three years of the most carefully constructed deception in our records.†   (source)
  • Shedu were bred to guard, to detect deceptions and illusions of all kinds.†   (source)
  • They became silent, their faces clouding over, their features becoming soft and negative, their eyes bland and deceptive.†   (source)
  • "Deceptive," Leavitt said.†   (source)
  • Smith carried the deception to the stable area.†   (source)
  • You, on the other hand, went beyond the harmless in your deception.†   (source)
  • I believe it was this moment of naming that allowed both my mother and me to eventually face our deepest demons and deceptions and become free.†   (source)
  • I knew all the time somewhere that my happiness was temporary, my love a deception.†   (source)
  • If he were leading someone to his death he would employ deception.†   (source)
  • Well, this is all that's left of us-and I want no self-deception about it.†   (source)
  • The barbarian could use his unrivaled strength more effectively than deceptive feints and twists.†   (source)
  • You see that even her own friends did not know of her deception.†   (source)
  • If anything, I think my father would choose to see my deceptions in a rigidly practical light, as if they were similar to that daily survival he came to endure, the need to adapt, assume an advantageous shape.†   (source)
  • Cliff faces, rock chimneys, small glaciers, and snowbound plateaux seemed deceptively close or deceptively wide apart, depending upon one's vantage point.†   (source)
  • Deception.†   (source)
  • We did not, and because we did not, we had no positive — we were condemned to negatives, to not revealing ourselves, to not speaking when we would, to not using what we knew, to not being found out — to a life of perpetual deception, concealment, and lying.†   (source)
  • GEORGE: (Still deceptively bland) All right ....I want to know about your wife's money because ....well, because I'm fascinated by the methodology ....by the pragmatic accommodation by which you wave-of-the-future boys are going to take over.†   (source)
  • It's not a matter of premeditated deception.†   (source)
  • But the mare stumbled and threw him hard against the saddle horn, and he realized how deceptive the moonlight was; exposed root tips and dark rocks waited in deep shadows cast by the moon.†   (source)
  • His enemies made much of the deception, labeling Lincoln a coward and refusing to believe that such a plot existed in the first place.†   (source)
  • Till Lionel Wendt accidentally told his father of the deception.†   (source)
  • And the deception must be obvious to justify forced compulsion.†   (source)
  • He could not have become a four-star general without mastering the governmental art of deception.†   (source)
  • For him, deception is first a matter of self-defense.†   (source)
  • "And he was deceptively strong," Cate added.†   (source)
  • You and Safia were a feint, a deception.†   (source)
  • The wine had forced a passage through all the carefully built barriers and defenses and deceptions, and she didn't care.†   (source)
  • The mountains stood in deceptive ranks, scattered but looking like successive ranges, each with its own degree of shadow and distance.†   (source)
  • This great surge of concern was important but it was also deceptive.†   (source)
  • On that Saturday, Indian summer had descended over the eastern seaboard, bringing shirt-sleeve weather, flies, a renascence of Good Humor men, and to most people that absurdly deceptive feeling that the onset of winter is a wicked illusion.†   (source)
  • But the bright opening paragraphs were deceptive; the articles weren't exactly shop-time, afternoon reading.†   (source)
  • He tried to tell himself that it was some freak of the long-dead volcano, but soon abandoned this attempt at self-deception.†   (source)
  • In slippers and dragon-blazoned shantung robe—his implacable gray eyes shadowed and softened by the indistinct lighting and horn-rimmed glasses, cottony hair like a halo—he appeared fragile; a deception.†   (source)
  • When someone reads a text, wants to discover its meaning, he will not scorn the symbols and letters and call them deceptions, coincidence, and worthless hull, but he will read them, he will study and love them, letter by letter.†   (source)
  • The Harvester Avenue cemetery was older than the one to the east of town, where Hubbard had been buried, and it was larger, three blocks long and at least a block deep—it was hard to say exactly how deep: the hills and trees threw you off, and then there was the irregular back boundary of what looked from here (deceptively) like woods.†   (source)
  • For somebody without much practice, she was getting to be expert at deception.†   (source)
  • Injections of alum solutions rejuvenated them, giving them a deceptive roundness.†   (source)
  • At the same time that he became less sure, he became more sure, but that confused and troubled him, and the more sure he was that all this apparent kindness was merely deception and meanness, the more eagerly he studied their faces in the hope that this time they really meant it.†   (source)
  • When she was still, there was a passivity about her, or a deception of passivity, that was not really passive at all.†   (source)
  • He was known in the Senate as a man who never broke an agreement, who never compromised his deeply felt Republican principles, who never practiced political deception.†   (source)
  • I said, wouldn't that be a deception and a cheat?†   (source)
  • You know," I teased halfheartedly, "this whole secrecy and deception thing is kind of a pain."†   (source)
  • He was, after all, the god of deception.†   (source)
  • But size was deceptive with mountains, Piper knew.†   (source)
  • Dworakowski had destroyed the structure of self-deception I had so arduously maintained.†   (source)
  • Yes, it does feel deceptively safer with two; but Thou is a slippery character.†   (source)
  • His father's mustache also was part of the deception.†   (source)
  • A variation in a glowglobe's brilliance, a deceptive shadow.†   (source)
  • The bird's deceptively dark color was the result of Rome's pollution tarnishing the original bronze.†   (source)
  • Somehow, he'd been caught up in so many layers of deception: Willow Chance wasn't a cheater.†   (source)
  • She must think one of us took part in the deception.†   (source)
  • He thought quickly, trying to invent a deception that would conceal his ignorance.†   (source)
  • I know how deceptive such monsters can be.†   (source)
  • Deception, not brute force, was the key.†   (source)
  • But even in our self-deception, we become gods.†   (source)
  • The sound of voices from the TV had been part of the deception, and Mal'akh had yet to turn it off.†   (source)
  • Instead I put on apleasant face, thanked everyone for their kindness and continued the deception.†   (source)
  • "The sides of the hole cave in and make the distances deceptive," Kynes said.†   (source)
  • One of his small deceptions, or vanities; his need for them makes her breath catch.†   (source)
  • His next words were deceptively calm, like those of a man concealing a terrible passion.†   (source)
  • He was amazed at the deceptions that had been carried on by his parents through the years.†   (source)
  • Was not their very presence on the island a deception?†   (source)
  • Jessica's motion started as a slumping, deceptive faint to the ground.†   (source)
  • A shield would repel too fast a blow, admit only the slowly deceptive counter.†   (source)
  • I am used to seeing through masks and deceptions.†   (source)
  • If the Freys had seen through your deception ...†   (source)
  • "The real trick," Doc Peret was saying softly to Eddie, "is deception.†   (source)
  • It was given me by a holy man to fend the lies and deceptions of Satan.†   (source)
  • I blew her kisses through the air, my faithful partner in deception, and she beamed at me.†   (source)
  • Have you noticed how deceptive the distances are?†   (source)
  • "Yes, but," he replied, pulling out another pretzel, "you're still participating in a deception.†   (source)
  • They were three days out of the way station; the mountains were deceptively clear now.†   (source)
  • Are such suspicions founded, or do I see deceit and deception around every corner now?†   (source)
  • The sides of the valley were deceptively steep, and treacherous with loose scree.†   (source)
  • Yeah, sure, she says, and she does, apparently used to such deception.†   (source)
  • You may be blood of the pharaohs, but Isis is a deceptive, power-hungry—†   (source)
  • Artkin asked, that deceptive gentleness in his voice again, a voice that would haunt her dreams.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately for you, I no longer find your deceptions interesting.†   (source)
  • The children who were born after the Great Deception took the names of their fathers.†   (source)
  • Not to know after all these years that deception can hide in plain sight?†   (source)
  • He knew the deception was necessary, but it still made him uncomfortable to lie to his family.†   (source)
  • I would like to look at the one that deals with the Great Deception.†   (source)
  • But that was deceptive, Jon realized as they drew closer.†   (source)
  • They are using me to cloak their deception, putting mine own face on their lie.†   (source)
  • After that her other deceptions were harder to pull off.†   (source)
  • But her letters were the greatest deception of all.†   (source)
  • Was his the face of deception or the face of grace?†   (source)
  • Opponents are deliberately using fraud and deception.†   (source)
  • Harrenhal was deceptive from afar, because it was so huge.†   (source)
  • She Is My Real Angel And the only one who understands the depth of Daddy's deceptions.†   (source)
  • So right, the scent of deception so accurate, so irresistible!†   (source)
  • Instead I am reduced to plotting, backstabbing, deception, betrayal.†   (source)
  • However, he could no longer afford to indulge in such self-deception.†   (source)
  • The officers of Alpha Group were skilled practitioners in the art of deception.†   (source)
  • I'm living in the histories, before the Great Deception, trying to stop the Raison Strain.†   (source)
  • Regis drew the wizard fully into the deception.†   (source)
  • Such deceptions, however, were to little avail.†   (source)
  • Do know anything about the Great Deception?†   (source)
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