Sentence examples for deceptive character from inspiring English sources

He thus overcame what he called the deceptive character of the terms square, rectangle, and cube as used by the ancients and came to identify geometric curves as depictions of relationships defined algebraically.

(1992: 411) Ultimate truth is described as ultimate, not because it is absolute or higher than conventional truth, but simply because of its consistent character, therefore non-deceptive its mode of appearanon-deceptive itsof being are the samoden coftrappearancehe inconsistent (therefore deceptive) chandcter of conventitsal truth.

I've evolved to this role". As a younger actress, she says, she might have been taken in by an intentionally deceptive character like Kathleen.

There is enough tension in the fabrication to keep the reader turning the pages, but it is a tension which is deceptive in character.

Pheby's writing is elegant and straightforward, but the discontinuous structure of the book is not, and the clarity of the prose can be deceptive: certain characters and events presented as real turn out not to be; others we are left to wonder about.

With deceptive simplicity, the characters are presented, rather than analysed.

Ibragimova's E major Partita had the deceptive simplicity and vivid character – bordering on insouciance in this case – that are this violinist's hallmarks in Bach.

But where Steinhauer's fiction succeeds masterfully is in the portrayal of one reality from different, deceptive angles, transferring his characters' indecision and uncertainty to the page.

More an ancient mariner than a biblical Noah, Shotover (Mark Lambert) initially seems to be approaching rum-fuelled senility, but, as with every other character, appearances are deceptive.

Stories can and often do build surprises by encouraging audiences to attribute certain assertions, presuppositions, and evaluations to an "objective" or base-level perspective, only to reveal later on that these elements should be attributed only to the mistaken or deceptive viewpoint of a particular character.

And she tells her characters' stories with deceptive simplicity.