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Back home, Putin's lies are not meant to truly fool anyone "but to create a bond of willing ignorance with Russians, who were meant to understand that Putin was lying but to believe him anyway," Snyder writes.
Can it be called a false document, and thus gain some credibility as a work of art? "If the author wants to truly fool his or her audience, it's not a false document," said Eileen Pollack, an English professor at the University of Michigan.
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We are told that these suitors were truly fooled by a shipmate in drag -- that is, until the woman revealed her secret.
We doubt the two truly fooled everyone, but their performance shows that even preoccupied New Yorkers love to be entertained, regardless of whether it's in a hot and sweaty subway station.
One thing for certain, seeking clarity and insight from this fart joke of a movie is truly a fool's errand.
Then again, in his world, in which people apparently write negative reviews only to put their names "on the map" and not because they have a long devotion to fiction or to literary meaning, reviewing may truly be a fool's game.
Once you see Deepak Chopra saying "I'm a PC," the reasoning goes, you're less likely to accept that the affable fool John Hodgman truly represents the Windows PC market.
That only a fool would truly surrender.
Fools! Fools!
The problem is that symbolic actions often substitute for truly effective actions by fooling ourselves into thinking we are doing something meaningful about a problem when we are not.
When "loser" doesn't work — because it clangs against our sense of who is doing well enough, who has influence — Trump reaches for the sense that the truly knowledgeable are not fooled by the appearance of success.
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