Sentence examples for false mask from inspiring English sources

It's the voice of the teacher or the analyst or the self-restraining parent whose blank false mask of benevolent authority and patient tolerance is actually filled with attitudinizing judgment and narrowly normative limits of acceptable, admissible feelings and actions.

There is nothing to prove to anyone or to yourself or hide behind a false mask of 'courage.' Breakdowns are seen as stepping stones to a breakthrough, something g that was not predictable.

Although childhood trauma and other vulnerabilities can certainly make us more susceptible to being in abusive relationships, the truth is, anyone can be a victim because narcissists and sociopaths deliberately deceive others with a false mask in the early stages of a relationship.

And our new closeness is stripping away the false masks, the illusion of differences which is the root of injustice and of hate and of war.

But some children are more like animals or like demons some children don't have the false masks that nearly everyone wears his whole life.

The Iroquois False Face mask, for example, must be carved from the trunk of a living tree hence the term live mask.

But I see the ending of "Fever Pitch" as false cheer masking bitter irony: even after confronting his addiction, Steve is still heavily in debt.

The status quo, which is little better than an armed truce and lulls everyone involved into a sense of false security, masks the failure of all sides to accept the impossibility of achieving their idealistic objectives and face up to the realities around them.

I had this very happy persona – a false self, a mask.

He lied to the state and his staff in concocting a false trail to mask his trysting.

Also, diluting the true positive incident cases with false positives could mask underlying associations between incident conditions and other variables.