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Updated: May 21, 2025
The moment one begins to talk for effect, or to hedge flippantly, he is talking insincerely. And when a good converser runs against this sort of talker, his heart calls out, with Carlyle, for an empty room, his tobacco, and his pipe.
She seemed to know all about you, my boy." "Well, but she couldn't know all about me," said George insincerely. "Well, if you want to know then, she suggested I should ask you." "But she'd never seen me!" "She's heard of you. Mrs. Orgreave, I expect." "Odd!... Odd!" George now pretended to be academically assessing an announcement that had no intrinsic interest for him.
Each party profited by the offices when in power, and when in opposition each party insincerely denounced its opponents for doing exactly what it itself had done and intended again to do. It was necessary, in order to remedy the evil, both gradually to change the average citizen's mental attitude toward the question, and also to secure proper laws and proper administration of the laws.
He could not divest his own heart of a conviction that the Earl was acting insincerely; that there was some object in view which it was impossible for him to divine; some purpose more than mere kindness to a relation whom he had never known or acknowledged for so many years of their mutual life.
Heaven knows what the Germans had hoped or intended by their remarkable coup; the amazing thing to note is that they were not prepared to fight, they had not even the necessary money ready and they could not get it; they had perhaps never intended to fight, and the autumn saw the danger disperse again into diplomatic bickerings and insincerely pacific professions.
"They don't lash about and shake the cage," said Jim, who seemed pleased with his analogy; "and it's at feeding-time that they're quietest. But they always get there." "They do indeed they always get there!" Strether replied with a laugh that justified his confession of nervousness. He disliked to be talking sincerely of Mrs. Newsome with Pocock; he could have talked insincerely.
I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.... The bullet is in me now, so that I cannot make a very long speech, but I will try my best.... First of all, I want to say this about myself; I have altogether too important things to think of to feel any concern over my own death; and now I cannot speak insincerely to you within five minutes of being shot.
"Just tell me, have you any trouble of that kind, or did you merely invent it as an excuse for any failure you made from time to time?" "I used it insincerely as an excuse. But I really do suffer from time to time physically. But physical suffering is nothing. Why should we waste a thought on such nonsense?"
Flood and Lucas, the commanders in the real battle, did not dream of giving the Roman Catholics a political existence, but to their own constituents they performed an honourable service and gave a great boon. Those, who had insincerely supported the measure, became the dupes of their own insincerity.
"If you will say such things and then run into the dark corners," he muttered. But when Solomon appeared with a water-pitcher they were ready for him. "Now what has kept you all this time?" glared Glover, insincerely. "I couldn't find any ice-water." "Ice-water!" "Every pipe is froze solid, but I chopped up some ice and brought that." "Ice-water, you double-dyed idiot! Go get your candle."
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