duplicity
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Despite his layered duplicity, Jonathan understands and defines himself by courting risk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2026
The truth hovers tantalizingly out of focus, and the characters’ duplicity becomes its adversary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
It’s harder for audiences to approach spousal duplicity with a shrug when thousands of lives are at stake.
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2025
The UK, it appears, can't get enough of betrayal, backstabbing and all-out duplicity.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2025
When he looked past the immediate delays and Ulrich’s duplicity, he saw progress.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Through their eyes, this thoughtful and deeply humane novel exposes some of the contradictions and quiet duplicities of ordinary life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
He led us through the hallways of our insane asylums, the passions and duplicities our courtrooms, and into the blur of flying hair, free love, tie-dye and peace signs that marked our 1960s antiwar protests.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2018
Nguyen leaves us with a harrowing vision of the sprawling tragedies of wartime, and of the moral duplicities of which we are capable.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 5, 2017
You could guess le Carré believes that the betrayals and duplicities throughout his 23 books are an integral part of human nature and likely to remain so.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2016
With fine subtlety the author depicts the schemes, duplicities, worries, and disappointments which follow the Folletts in their efforts to scramble into society and make aristocratic marriages.
From Blackie & Sons Catalogue - 1891 Books for Young People by Various
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