He tries to dissemble but is useless: "Yeah… I don't think… um".
They had not tried to dissemble or smooth out their rough edges in order to make themselves more popular or acceptable.
But commission sources, keen to strike a deal, believed the hawks on the creditor side were dissembling, trying to spoil a breakthrough.
The German film "Barbara" (winner of the top prize in Berlin this year) and "No," from Chile, are more modest with respect to production design but in other ways more ambitious than their American counterparts, revisiting painful moments from recent history and trying to drag suppressed or dissembled truths into the light.
She wrote that Brian Murphy, an executive vice president of the city's Economic Development Corporation, dissembled and tried to "counteract his subordinates' credible testimony and his own documents," and that the city must put the lease back up for bids.
"L'Etourdi" or "The Bungler," an early Moliere comedy, his first in verse, is a hoot, a nutty 17th-century sitcom about a manservant, proud of his gift for dissembling and manipulation, trying to help his dimwitted master win the girl of his dreams away from the rich old man to whom she is indentured, as well as a variety of other suitors.
He dissembled throughout, having few coherent responses, just trying to fill space and hogging airtime, which in my one major criticism of Lester Holt he should have forcefully halted.
Law enforcement officials say Mr. Montesinos has tried to manipulate the 15 judges and prosecutors who are interviewing him with dissembling narratives that mix half-truths with baldfaced lies and to charm his guards by recalling their nicknames from the days when he was their boss.
The challenge he made to an Italian journalist about trying to read in the dark on Friday made him seem dissembling and aggressive, and on Saturday he ridiculed a question about the emotional impact of three successive days of matches by blurting: "I have many emotional problems but they weren't caused by having to go on court three days in a row".
Always, it's the attempt to avoid, to hide, and to dissemble that precipitates the final undoing.
