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But this story also tugs on anyone who suspects himself in the presence of hypocrisy — because everyone is a hypocrite, it is delicious to catch hypocrisy in others.
That he already suspects himself of an exaggeration, though, seems confirmed by the second line's amplifications ("Dull would he be of soul …") And yet the hyperbole conveys neither dishonesty nor irony.
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He who no longer suspected himself on insincerity, of being a carping suspicious actor of life . . . could afford to go naked.
Otherwise it was just "talk" — and talking too much, he once cautioned Sorensen, would only bore the public (and, one suspects, Kennedy himself).
The third, in Copenhagen, belongs to the suspect himself.
He immediately calls the police to tell them, and inadvertently becomes a suspect himself.
But it is unusual for the suspect himself to be given direct access to such documents.
Dr. Heine said he had been treated as a suspect himself at one point and understood the pressure Dr. Ivins was under.
Sample role: Robert Telford, whose son, the school bully, is the initial suspect in the murder of another teenager; Telford eventually becomes a suspect himself.
"How can we expect justice from a king who is the prime suspect himself?" asked a protester who was relaxing on a pile of bamboo poles.
"It is important for the future investigation that the suspect himself does not know more than necessary before he is interrogated by the Swedish police," he said.
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