Rather that take responsibility for their own actions, the "centrist" crowd prefers to promote the deceptive illusion that both the overall Federal deficit and Social Security's problems were caused by middle-class Americans themselves.
As we move through time, the future offers prospects upon which habit, prejudice or the illusions of desire confer a deceptive fixity.
As he interprets the view, it would follow that intuitive cognitions cannot guarantee their own certitude: sensory illusions and the possibility of a deceptive God preclude this.
The case, which was dismissed before trial in the lower courts, involved an accusation of a deceptive arrangement between a cable television company and two suppliers that gave the company's books the illusion of an additional $17 million in revenue.
Brooklyn is a deceptive affair.
It was a deceptive opening.
In that world, a deceptive calm prevails.
Yet this is a deceptive comparison.
West led a deceptive club deuce.
But this is a deceptive calm.
A deceptive day, sunny but bitingly cold.
