There was something marvelous about the thousands of men in dark suits daily swarming down Lombard Street — I even remember a bowler hat — and something decidedly romantic about the leftover twinkle of empire that went from Threadneedle Street to the Aldwych to Piccadilly and, like tardy starlight, perpetrated a deception of time.
Considering the fact that Fahey was then as well known as his invented blues counterpart, one wonders how many people outside Fahey's immediate circle of friends 'got' the joke (or cared), or why he bothered to perpetrate such a deception in the first place.
Platt, playing an anxiety-ridden teenager so convinced of his own worthlessness that he perpetrates a horrendous deception, just to quell the pain in his own shattered heart, provides here one of those portrayals that have you laughing, and at other times choking back tears, in sheer wonderment.
So I felt betrayed and foolish when he admitted he had perpetrated an elaborate deception.
Pay money simply to perpetrate a fraud?
Personal flaws are different from deliberate moral deceptions, and if a voter knows that a candidate is capable and willing to perpetrate personal deception, doesn't it seem valid to consider that before casting a precious vote of confidence?
"Structured procrastination requires a certain amount of self-deception, because one is in effect constantly perpetrating a pyramid scheme on oneself," he writes.
Perry points out that "structured procrastination requires a certain amount of self-deception, since one is, in effect, constantly perpetrating a pyramid scheme on oneself... This is not a problem, because virtually all procrastinators have excellent self-deceptive skills.
Worse yet, they are using religion as an excuse to perpetrate lies and deception -- to swiftboat same sex couples in the name of God, when in fact they are just advancing another end-justifies-the-means political scheme.
They also perpetrated a criminal ideology.
It's almost like perpetrating a fraud.
