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.
He happily chats about his eccentricities but is not sure about his talent for insincerity, partly because he never watches himself in his films.
But he agrees they may help convey insincerity.
On stage, it had added significantly to his air of menace and deceit; he was treating the beaming Mrs W with wheedling charm while another side of his face was twitching with twisted insincerity.
Both novels have a self-serving politicking clergyman (the Reverend Isaac Blakey has much of the unctuous insincerity of the Reverend Reginald Bacon), strong-willed and opinionated judges, politicised lawyers and macho bankers.
Time and again in negotiations over Iran's nuclear programme, America and its allies assumed Iranian duplicity and insincerity.
The Dalai is still, officially, "a national splittist with a religious overcoat"; his nine-day trip to the United States, which began on November 5th, and the "international clamours" it is generating, provide further proof of his "insincerity", it is said in Beijing.
This allows filmmakers to have their own digital distribution channel with a far higher profit margin besids the higher-fee storefronts of Amazon, Apple and Walmart, among others.But what was remarkable throughout the event, even when the bosses of firms like Etsy and Kickstarter spoke, was the near utter lack of insincerity, marketing talk of "effectuating the paradigms" or hyperbole.
It showed a photograph of a bedraggled clown smoking a cigarette, with the words: "in the deep still of the night, we take off our mask of insincerity and say to our real selves, we are sorry".
But the insincerity of his gestures towards secular parties, which often to be fair to him seemed like a disorganised rabble, rendered meaningful reconciliation unlikely.
North Korea walked out of the talks, accusing the Japanese of insincerity.
