This latter term denotes social conditions in which crime, deceit, harassment, strife, and military aggression are absent, people cooperate with and assist each other, those without family to support them are cared for, and individuals manifest the virtues appropriate to their roles as rulers, subjects, fathers, sons, and brothers.
Re "Guilt and Atonement on the Path to Adulthood" (Findings, Aug. 25): John Tierney describes experiments in which psychologists, using deceit, induce guilt in toddlers and then observe them squirm and suffer for 60 seconds before "absolving" them.
The movie becomes a complex dance of desire and deceit in which people behave badly.
The world of fragments and divisive shards is fostering a culture of deceit, in which, as no one can be trusted, everyone is a deceiver.
The investigation revealed a web of deceit in which reviewers in Bangladesh, the Philippines and Eastern Europe produced, for as little as a dollar a rave, buckets of praise for places they had never seen in countries where they had never been.
Mr Justice Scott Baker told Aitken: "For nearly four years you wove a web of deceit in which you entangled yourself and from which there was no way out unless you were prepared to come clean and tell the truth.
For the time being, it would appear that Texas and Vermont will probably remain under the jurisdiction of what Naylor calls "the Empire" — "a global system of dominance and deceit in which ostensibly free individuals allow transnational megacompanies and big government to control their lives" and so on.
Top climate scientist James Hansen warns of the "Paris deceit" in which leaders will make promises they don't believe in or commitments they can't deliver politically.
We live in a pervasive culture of deceit in which the real news is not another cheating or plagiarism scandal, but rather, the guy who makes it from one end of the day to another without so much as fudging on his marathon time.
