The hirer simply asserts that the employee presented a Green Card that "seemed genuine enough .The extent of physical smuggling of workers is widespread, but impossible to count.
One thinks, for instance, of the Academy Award that went in 1999 to Judi Dench for eight minutes of screen time in "Shakespeare in Love," a trophy that seemed genuine, generous payback for the decades that Ms. Dench has devoted to the Bard on stage.
I am confounded, frustrated and at times downright despondent at our inability to clearly present our case to the American people in a way that seems genuine and commonsensical on its face.
Fake Facebook, Twitter, etc. accounts can be used to present a front that seems genuine, only to disappear when the fraud has been committed, no traces left.
"The people who get sanctions are wilfully rejecting support for no good reason and if there were a reason … there is something known as 'good cause', so if that seemed true and genuine you'd have good cause there to not have a sanction, plus there is a process in place just to ensure we are getting it right".
But the vandalism Coetzee commits upon the easily checked facts of his own life ultimately serves to sharpen a question that does seem genuine, and genuinely self-indicting: Doesn't being a great artist demand, or at least imply, a certain greatness of spirit as well?
By virtue of a composer's subtle interventions, folk dance and melody in "Jenufa" represent a synthesis that seems more genuine than the "real thing".
You may have to practice a pretty, convincing smile that makes you seem genuine.
I'm going to miss his saying "By God," the stodgy Midwesternness that seemed both genuine and intentional.
"And now," he says, with a tenderness that seems as genuine as it is comic, "well now we're very happy together".
