This leads her to hide from herself the true source of some of the beliefs involved.
BP is defending itself against an array of charges that have become almost vicious: that its succession of gizmos to halt the gusher have seemed near-comical, that it has hidden from the public the true amounts of oil leaching into the ocean, that it has tried to shift blame and that it has underplayed the environmental threat.
The city has nurtured her creative ambitions, and she said her neighborhood provided the catalyst for her second novel, "The Border of Truth" (Counterpoint, 2007), a story about a contemporary middle-aged Manhattan woman's discovery that her Upper East Side father, a Belgian refugee from Hitler's Europe, has hidden from her the true story of his passage to America.
What happens between Jack and Sally represents so much of what these stories are about: the basic human urge to rescue oneself from insignificance and the concomitant urge to hide from a true reckoning of what this kind of endeavor really takes.
BDS has effectively branded itself as a human rights movement, hiding from the public its true intentions - the destruction of Israel, the demonization of the Jewish people and the erosion of the values at the heart of America's way of life -- and obscuring the role of extremists, terrorists, and radicals in driving its agenda.
If someone wanted to dissemble or hide from others his true identity, couldn't he provide self-serving and misleading information?
And, more bizarrely, they would have engaged in a collective conspiracy to keep their true intent hidden from the public until it was discovered by conservative activists, who then used that it to challenge the law.
Some analysts, and most of the people with whom I have spoken, expect the tax to have the perverse effect of driving up the price of existing homes, as buyers will have to cover most of the tax, and pushing more of the sale into a side contract to hide both the true price and gains from the government.
