"Every street closure, every false alarm, every pronouncement by officials has an effect," Congress was told two weeks ago by William A. Hanbury, chief executive of the Washington Convention and Tourism Corporation.
It was, he concluded, "a deliberate attempt by Naipaul to kebab himself on pooterish pronouncements and false histories".
Making naïve pronouncements of false landings and ignoring an overwhelming mountain of evidence they say its all a lie... and then offer absolutely no proof of their claims.
These include the lack of experience of the military judges, even though many of them displayed a "remarkable independence," and refused to "serve as little more than an 'amen chorus,' witlessly endorsing every pronouncement, however thin, false, or ill-conceived," that was put forward by the prosecution, and the inadequate provision of resources to the defense.
Religious pronouncements, true or false, have become an easy path to power and consequence.
Such pronouncements in fiction can be obvious and off-putting, false and over-determined.
You did not mention the principal reason John Kerry lost the election: his pronouncement that despite knowledge that the Iraq war was based on false premises, he would still have voted to give President Bush the absolute power to initiate and conduct the war.
His most enduring, endearing films are about life's more quotidian dramas, and his pronouncements were rather like his taste for spectacle -- forced, false, ultimately self-destructive.
"Recent pronouncements that the M.T.A.'s books and finances elude public scrutiny are false, baseless and belie reality," Peter S. Kalikow, the authority's chairman, said in a statement yesterday.
