In this way, the spinner of patently absurd fabrications becomes accepted by millions as a trusted truth-teller.
Curtis's latest documentary finds moment after moment where lies have become codified and accepted, where Western leaders have built simplistic, patently false narratives.
For most of the noughties, the majority of British politicians, economists and voters were just as gullible as that viewing couple: we accepted as real and glorious what was patently fake and plastic.
Chancellor Philip Hammond may have accepted May's sensible decision to stop chasing George Osborne's patently unachievable deficit reduction targets but that does not make him an overnight convert to neo-Keynesianism.
The media of the "international community" have, till recently, had no qualms at accepting the patently mendacious excuses for the western invasion of Iraq with its slaughter of hundreds of thousands and the uprooting of millions, the tearing up the Geneva conventions and the impudent western adoption of torture and kidnapping as instruments of government.
Beliefs that are debatable or even patently false may be repeated so often that at some point they come to be accepted as fact.
Since he has accepted that this would involve possessing the art of generalship (541e2, techne kai episteme), his claim is patently indefensible, and Socrates charges that he has failed to make good on his assertion to be "wonderfully wise … about Homer" (542a1).
And even someone as successful and patently talented as Maxine Peake tells me how she was turned down by Manchester Metropolitan University's theatre school three times and Guildhall School of Music and Drama three times before finally being accepted by Rada.
The membership in their antipathy to New Labour turned to someone who had never accepted the latter, who was the polar opposite in almost every respect of Blair, and embodying an authenticity and decency which Blair patently did not.
(a) Applications which are determined to be patently not in accordance with the FCC rules, regulations, or other requirements, unless accompanied by an appropriate request for waiver, will be considered defective and will not be accepted for filing or if inadvertently accepted for filing will be dismissed.
Most patently, it applies to any philosophy accepting the notion of an infinite, personal God, the immortality of the soul, or the immateriality of the intellect and will.
