Characters come and go, dissemble and re-dissemble, with a tireless resourcefulness meant to make heads spin.
Dissembling with comic transparency and cavorting drunkenly with his equally dissolute neighbor, Joxer Daly, he manufactures shooting pains in his legs to keep potential employment at bay.
Blass was five, and he dates from that time both a "budding genius for avoiding anything unpleasant or ugly" and a lifelong preoccupation, the strain of which was always stoically dissembled, with "keeping up appearances".
And we Democrats are not dissembling with our claims of successful post 2008 economic rescue and gains in the 1990s.
Blood Orange, Solange, Bon Iver, Kanye West, Maxwell, Drake and James Blake all made albums that took soul and R&B songwriting and dissembled it with a jazz arranger's toolkit.
The band have advertised Dissemble in Leeds with billboards that suggest a comic, self-debunking gravity that is also very Leeds: at once mournful and mocking of the very notion of grievous solemnity.
And Chinese officials often dissemble when confronted with evidence of such behaviors.
Just focus and dissemble this shell With your quaking, gleaming knife.
Wolff's first novel, which greatly resembles his life as he has told it in two books of memoirs, concerns a prep school boy, his lower-middle, partly Jewish background disguised, who is obsessed both with writing and with dissembling -- activities that have a great deal in common.
Law enforcement officials say Mr. Montesinos has tried to manipulate the 15 judges and prosecutors who are interviewing him with dissembling narratives that mix half-truths with baldfaced lies and to charm his guards by recalling their nicknames from the days when he was their boss.
