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At other points, tragedy stems from deliberate duplicity– as when a case of mistaken identity leads to yet more bloodshed.
It says a lot for the power of the performances, and the strength of the characters in the novel that, despite the duplicity of Magnus, one cannot help but feel closer to Magnus and Axel than to Jack Brotherhood and the slimy Grant Lederer of U.S. Intelligence.
The duplicity, hypocrisy and sexual aberrance of the fanatically religious makes them fodder for gargantuan quantities of side splitting hilarity.
In this battle horsemen, steel, and an ideology of duplicity won the day over a naive other world whose innocence is now virtually unimaginable.
How then to deal with the duplicity of Melquiades in telling Pete about his non-existent family in Jimenez?
Except for the romance being unlikely, the rest of the movie is well done- his staff is played to the hilt- including their duplicity when things start working.
If there were any doubts about Pakistan’s duplicity, they should have been eliminated in 2011, when Osama bin Laden was killed in a military garrison town near the country’s capital.
Here we are, at the centenary of the outbreak of World War I, and we find ourselves surrounded by cascading violence, duplicity, and cynicism of the very sort that brought the world to disaster in 1914.
Such duplicity has pervaded US foreign policy.
After all, an earlier nuclear deal that the US brokered with his father, Kim Jong-il, was derailed by duplicity.
The country’s establishment was blamed for duplicity in the American war effort in Afghanistan, backing both sides – the United States and the Taliban – at the same time.
This theme of apparent Pakistani duplicity was picked up by Cameron.
It operates both passively and actively in Palestinian culture, demanding stubbornness and tolerating ruthlessness, violence, and duplicity.
Given China’s Libyan duplicity, the world should now determine whether it is a country that obeys international rules only when doing so suits its interests.
Closer to home, the Kingdom despises Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for his alliance with Iran and duplicity in Lebanon.
The duplicity surrounding the marketing of anti-depressant drugs underscores just how corrupt the profession has become.
More than that, the US will need to punish Pakistan for its duplicity.
Economists typically describe people’s rational, honest side, but ignore their duplicity.
And duplicity pays handsomely.
As in other Latin or Mediterranean countries with a strong Catholic tradition, Italian society long ago learned to accept serenely a life of duplicity: on the one hand, a strong attachment to church and family values, and on the other a second life – often lived in plain sight – composed of mistresses and other “dubious” connections.
Facing the temptation of duplicity, they may become concerned, or even suspicious, that their partners – facing the same temptation – are betraying them.
This duplicity is also evident in the crackdown on freedom of speech, assembly, association, and movement now unfolding in China.
But not even enlightened populists are free from the risks of duplicity; they, too, are frequently forced to betray their voters.
For the brave and charismatic dissident Wei Jingsheng, Mao “cast virtually the whole of China into a state of violence, duplicity, and poverty.”
Although economic progress is visible across Romania, and a gradual renewal of a civic conscience through the arrival of democracy has appeared, Romania’s burlesque of a political life – despite its European Union membership – shows how persistent its bad old habits of duplicity, inconsistency, fatalism, inertia, and corruption are.
As if that were not enough, the government’s chronic duplicity was highlighted during the first round of the election, when a large number of Romanians living abroad were blocked from voting.
Trump prefers top-down decision-making, so it remains to be seen how he will respond to intelligence reports about the North’s duplicity.
Trump may not like it, but he must call out Kim’s duplicity, especially given the latest intelligence.
Daily life under totalitarianism, be it communist or fascist, was routinely based on a deep duplicity whose effects are longstanding.
A sad lesson of the West’s duplicity with regard to democratic reform in the Arab world, which both Syria and Iran have been happy to embrace, is that pro-Western moderate leaders who gave ground to pro-democracy protesters ended up being swept away, while those who brutally crushed their opponents are hanging on.