Staples is on his own team and avoids any false feel-good opportunities.
Team medical staffs are shown on national television every week examining downed players, creating the illusion that the doctors are on top of every head injury after a big hit, but that just provides a false "feel-good" sense of security for fans. .
Since we know that this is false, we feel the falsity, and the pathos of the falsity.
Other details in this novel also ring false or feel unworthy of a writer with as prodigal an imagination as Mr. Pynchon's.
Mary Howe, of the Homeless Youth Alliance, says claims of increasing crime and disorder are false: "I feel like I have seen a decrease in crime and a definite decrease in hard drug use in the last couple of years".
"What's out there is this horrible requirement of having to market yourself, often in ways that are false, to feel like you can 'compete.' It's all based on objectification, shopping, and rating each other.
Is it union?" Paul admitted that it was, and Rick inhaled with a show — slightly false, Paul felt — of admiration.
She argues that the false security felt by Jews in Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire resulted from their lack of "concern for the political realities of their times".
Back then, the word in question had been "truthiness," a term that has since entered the lexicon as meaning roughly something false that feels true in one's gut.
Shown their recollections [years later] they insisted their "own" false memories felt true while their actual accounts at the time seemed false, or at least devoid of any emotional or intellectual connection to themselves.
Both sections consisted of six true-false items: "Feel tired of living" (item 1), "Think that for you, for your family and friends, it would better to be dead" (item 2), "Think about physically hurting yourself" (item 3), "Think about taking your own life" (item 4), "Have planned a way of taking your own life" (item 5), and "Have tried to take your own life" (item 6).
