| Central to such psychic self-preservation is a strategy of ambiguity, dissemblance, and porosity. |
| He conjured up a dissemblance of his own, a side-show of Powell being sent to the area of Sharon's crime against humanity to arrange a cease-fire. |
| Such dissemblance, at any rate, is not a temptation at this exhibition. |
| Bush's national security adviser and later as secretary of state was marked by deception, dissemblance and incompetence. |
| Today, many Yemeni Twelvers still dissemble about their adherence to that school, following the doctrine of taqiyya, or religiously permissible dissemblance. |
| In this respect the US nuclear policy has been one of dissemblance and equivocation. |
