The perception of mysterious forces being at work may derive largely from outlandish claims of authenticity by people motivated by avarice.
Disputing the mayor's claims of authenticity, Wang points out that vital features of the wall's watchtowers, designed for functionality, have been altered for aesthetics.
However, the claims of authenticity, of "reconstruction", are risky and complicating, as Funder seems to acknowledge as she urgently seeks to define the enterprise, each attempt raising further questions.
Anna is frighteningly dismissive of what she calls "Britalian" food (I quaked a little, but she so kindly lied to me and declared me no culprit here) and although I know what she means - too much novelty, not enough simplicity, along with fraudulent claims of authenticity - this, although it mixes the British with the Italian, is in fact entirely authentic when you come to think of it.
I make no claim of their authenticity, except to say they are authentically good.
It argues against the prevailing and increasingly boring theory that Keith Richards is the Stones' main claim to authenticity, the soul of the band, the principal force of their sound and songcraft, and that Mick Jagger is a shallow socialite poseur.
We were suspicious of militancy, black or otherwise; suspicious of claims to authenticity, racial and otherwise.
A loosely knit collection of anecdotes centered on the earnest attempts of the young hoodlum Nicholas Santini to earn his "button" as a full-fledged member of the governing counsel of a New Jersey-based Cosa Nostra chapter, "This Thing of Ours" has a claim to authenticity that most gang movies do not.
