hypocrisy
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“If you only talk about whether it’s offensive you can miss what it’s saying about hypocrisy and religion, and institutions and power.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
Basic hypocrisy is the simplest answer; it comes as easily to some of us as breathing.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
Earlier this week, Israel's football governing body accused Republic of Ireland head coach Heimir Hallgrimmson of "ignorance, hypocrisy and stupidity" regarding comments he made about facing Israel.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
The head of the Norwegian Refugee Council aid group, Jan Egeland, criticised on Thursday what he called the "hypocrisy" of countries demanding rights for Afghan women while cutting humanitarian assistance.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
He brooded at length over what he perceived to be his father’s moral shortcomings, the hypocrisy of his parents' lifestyle, the tyranny of their conditional love.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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There are many prejudices exhibited in the story—some Hemingway’s own and some intended to reveal the characters’ hypocrisies and flaws.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
That these sort of games, with their duplicity, hypocrisies and teary moments of tenderness, are popular is beyond question, and that is certainly how viewers are invited to watch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Through her fierce exposure of her ugly travails, Ms. Williams’s Anna seems to grow in stature and radiance—becoming a truth-teller who isn’t afraid to risk love, or life, to expose men’s hypocrisies and double standards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025
He was also an enslaver, blind, as so many others, to his own hypocrisies.
From Slate ● May 9, 2025
In the dark, in the moonless jungle, the fissures are not so visible, the hypocrisies and lies less disturbing.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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