The question is what led an intelligent and certainly not disadvantaged young man into his deception in the first place, and after reading Mr. Carrère's account one does feel that one understands at least as much as it is possible to do so.
Considering the fact that Fahey was then as well known as his invented blues counterpart, one wonders how many people outside Fahey's immediate circle of friends 'got' the joke (or cared), or why he bothered to perpetrate such a deception in the first place.
David Stubbs One of the more ingenious acts of deception in the second world war, The Ghost Army were a unit with a very particular brief: to fool Nazi intelligence into believing huge pockets of US forces in France were in a different location than they actually were.
An estrangement between the South and the rest of the country would bring out the worst in both — dangerous insularity in the first, smug self-deception in the second.
Although the intelligence about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction has been shown to have been flimsy and, with hindsight, wrong, Saddam's record of deception in the 12 years since the first Gulf war meant that it was right not to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Her next film was Deception (1946), the first of her films to lose money.
The authority has been widely criticized over the last several months for insularity and deception in the way it approved the increases, the first in almost eight years.
Bernhard Schlink's weathered private detective, Gerhard Self, makes for pretty good company in "Self's Deception," the third book in Schlink's Self series, translated here by Peter Constantine.
Vaccine program workers, who sometimes struggle to gain public trust and governmental cooperation in the first place, are furious about the deception.
"If I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation because there has never been so many lies, so much deception," Mr. Trump said in the second debate.
Because intensity of deception is signalled by decreases in the frequencies of some words, word rates are mapped to z-scores, and those in the first two categories are then multiplied by −1 so that increasing magnitude is consistently associated with increasing deception.
