| Her play-acting is what got the band slapped with the charges of shallow insincerity in the first place. |
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| The cardinal sin was insincerity, two-facedness, of appearing to be one thing while actually being another. |
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| Susan ran back to Ian, but her insincerity to Ian, and to herself, was soapily palpable. |
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| Their insincerity is overshadowed only by their maddening desire for success. |
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| This single line from the 1967 film The Graduate came to signify a generation's contempt for insincerity, conformity, and wastefulness. |
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| Evidence of the speaker's unreliability or insincerity may defeat or override his prima facie warrant for acceptance. |
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| The actor brings his trademarked brand of suave insincerity to the role of the soap actor who plays Betty's true love. |
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| Never mind that as he reads from the monitor, Springer radiates smarmy insincerity. |
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| This column can even take credit for regularly defending him against the charge of insincerity. |
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| What seems to plague both of these films and so many like them is their patent insincerity. |
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| Voters sense such insincerity and then see no reason to support parties that are indistinguishable from each other. |
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| Never would the gate of heaven be opened to the knock of any inearthed spirit, did not himself make honest the falseness and insincerity of our desires. |
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| The vaunted Apple user-friendliness was exposed, before my eyes, as bossiness and insincerity. |
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| The fashion business is, after all, a part of the entertainment industry, where sycophancy, exaggeration and gushing insincerity are not unknown. |
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| He happily chats about his eccentricities but is not sure about his talent for insincerity, partly because he never watches himself in his films. |
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| Time and again in negotiations over Iran's nuclear programme, America and its allies assumed Iranian duplicity and insincerity. |
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| It shows their total insincerity and refusal to show any sign of remorse or an attitude conducive to reconciliation. |
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| My deep disapproval is due to the incredible insincerity of the document concerned. |
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| While he can be charming, funny and entertaining, occasionally he gives the impression of insincerity. |
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| While she can be charming, funny and entertaining, occasionally she gives the impression of insincerity. |
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| In general, what I stated was that the entire pursuit was an opiate, faulty in fundamental respects and smacking of deception, insincerity and bogusness. |
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| The doctrine of insincerity is most fully elaborated in Dorian Gray. |
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| Certainly the howls of denial have all the ring of outraged insincerity. |
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| Aware of their own insincerity, they did not trust each other. |
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| If she were such an abyss of insincerity as to dissemble distrust under such frankness, she must at least be more subtle than to bring her doubts to her rival for solution. |
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| Even the more polished, informed, self-possessed Romney seems cursed with an Eddie Haskell air of insincerity and deceitfulness. |
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| I share his concern, but clearly not his insincerity. |
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| Similarly, the Coens, for all their blithe insincerity, can't help but acknowledge the strange archaic power of the culture they have made a career of travestying. |
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| But he agrees they may help convey insincerity. |
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| He remembered that the politeness seemed too elaborate, too florid, altiloquent to the extent of insincerity. |
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| Such shifts, when performed by public figures such as politicians, are sometimes criticized as signalling inauthenticity or insincerity. |
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| The insincerity of Crawford's feelings towards Price is demonstrated when he runs off with newly married Mrs. |
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| It took two weeks for him to address the issue publicly, while his wife Patience was accused of melodrama smacking of insincerity when she met mothers of the kidnapped girls. |
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| Pharisaical pride and a spirit of ingratitude, insincerity, and formalism. |
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| With it, we have long passed the stage of laziness, languidness or insincerity. |
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| During the course of a meeting, the GTAA concluded that the grievor exhibited inconsistent behaviour and insincerity about her injury and absence. |
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| Half-heartedness, superficiality, a lack of courage, and complacency, indeed, insincerity about many of the key issues on the Community's agenda shape the picture. |
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| In any event, the careful inquiry conducted by the Council of Europe observers convinced them of the obvious insincerity of the chairman of the polling station committee and the town hall representatives. |
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| I challenge her to do so, but instead I fear we will hear the usual Sinn Féin empty, pious, weasel words that reek of insincerity, with hypocrisy dripping from every syllable. |
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| It also points, however, to the insincerity of politicians who outwardly declare support for equality between women and men but, in practice, do not observe it, and this is why expectations are not as we would wish. |
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