Their roles aren't put-ons, but they do put them on: they don their roles like costumes while continuing, manifestly and even brazenly, to be — themselves.
The 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide disinterred some terrible acts, by warlords and technocrats, and also raised the spectre of Tony Blair, normally so quiet that when you hear a rumour that he's moved to Jerusalem, it sounds atmospherically true, even while being manifestly not true.
The French position is that arms inspections should continue, while they are manifestly making progress.
Van Aelst's critics regularly noted a certain bipolarity in his paintings: while they were manifestly objects of extraordinary artifice, the viewer experiences the things they depict as uncannily present, as if they were hallucinated.
It's a dangerous and unnerving movie because, while they are manifestly defending civilised values, Fincher and company involve us at a visceral level in the seductive attractions of what the film attacks.
I was a guest on his show during the fourth Ashes Test, and was startled by his knowledge and love of cricket – he has never really struck me as a cricket man – while he is manifestly as well-equipped as anyone on 5 Live to handle news and current affairs.
Similarly, while the majority were manifestly not impressed by Anselmo's behaviour, there were still plenty of racist simpletons expressing support for him online this week, in much the same way that Jeremy Clarkson never suffers from a lack of effusive support when he drops yet another off-colour clanger.
While this network is manifestly undirected, it is weighted.
The campaign isn't claiming that Mr. Kerry's policies favor the rich -- they manifestly don't, while Mr. Bush's manifestly do.
Texting while driving is not only manifestly dangerous; in forty-one states, it is also illegal.
