Blackmail and corruption had haunted the double lives of Dorian Gray and Sir Robert Chiltern ( in An Ideal Husband ), but in Earnest the protagonists ' duplicity ( Algernon's " bunburying " and Worthing's double life as Jack and Ernest ) is undertaken for more innocent purposes – largely to avoid unwelcome social obligations.

Berlin Alexanderplatz centers on Franz Biberkopff, a former convict and minor pimp, who tries to stay out of trouble but is dragged down by crime, poverty and the duplicity of those around him.

While acknowledging that " the politics of Underground have been assailed and dissected by international audiences ", she feels that " this debate is largely specious as there's no hidden agenda to this robust and not terribly subtle tale of duplicity with Mr. Kusturica's central idea being a daringly blunt representation of political chicanery that fools an entire society, and of the corruption that lets one man thrive at the expense of his dearest friend ".

They believe so much in the integrity of his character that they do not suspect him of any duplicity in what has passed, but his conduct has been marked by such deplorable weakness as shows how unfit he is for the situation he occupies.

The duplicity of an adaptive mechanism that is at once " strict " and " flexible " at differing levels of plant physiology, or structure, has granted Pachypodium the ability to evolve within the landscape into variations that fulfill an ecological niche as various species.

Perfidious Albion is a pejorative phrase used within the context of international relations and diplomacy to refer to acts of duplicity, treachery and hence infidelity ( with respect to promises made to or alliances formed with other nation states ) by monarchs or governments of Britain ( or England ) in their pursuit of self-interest and the requirements of realpolitik.

In a few cases deliberate duplicity is alleged, whereby secret agreements or intentions are claimed to have existed in conflict with understandings given publicly.

Sokar sends a bounty hunter after him after discovering his duplicity, although he is eventually able to escape after SG-1 convinces the bounty hunter to release him.

He is kind-hearted and does not stomach the games or duplicity of others.

Giulia reveals that she has long suspected that Marcello was involved in the murders, but her sorrow is more for their own safety than for Marcello ’ s victims or his duplicity.

It is unknown who ordered the killing but most feel Kabila's allies were to blame as they were tired of his duplicity, in particular his failure to implement a detailed timetable for the introduction of a new democratic constitution leading to free and fair elections.

Aware of Lord Orville's arrival, Evelina tries to distance herself from him because of his impertinent letter, but his gentle manners work their spell until she is torn between attraction to him and her belief in his past duplicity.

This is only expected as we know from accounts as to how the saint was got incarnate out to destroy the excessive wickedness and duplicity perpetrated by rogue creeds. Sambandar is clear about his hatred for the evil and duplicity of the obsure communal creeds and the same opinion is expressed in the works of other divine incarnates of that period of both saiva and vaishnava path way.

Bad faith ( Latin: mala fides ) is double mindedness or double heartedness in duplicity, fraud, or deception.

Ogun is considered one of the most powerful deities but on a more fundamental level, he represents the duplicity of man.

Ogun's many contradictory personality traits come out as a major theme within the novel, namely the duplicity of man and nature, which is exemplified in the struggle of the native Africans to carry out their ritual, while the British try as they might to stop them.

WHEREAS an unprovoked, inhuman, and sanguinary war, waged by the hostile Creeks against the United States, hath been repelled, prosecuted and determined, successfully, on the part of the said States, in conformity with principles of national justice and honorable warfare — And whereas consideration is due to the rectitude of proceeding dictated by instructions relating to the re-establishment of peace: Be it remembered, that prior to the conquest of that part of the Creek nation hostile to the United States, numberless aggressions had been committed against the peace, the property, and the lives of citizens of the United States, and those of the Creek nation in amity with her, at the mouth of Duck river, Fort Mimms, and elsewhere, contrary to national faith, and the regard due to an article of the treaty concluded at New-York, in the year seventeen hundred ninety, between the two nations: That the United States, previously to the perpetration of such outrages, did, in order to ensure future amity and concord between the Creek nation and the said states, in conformity with the stipulations of former treaties, fulfill, with punctuality and good faith, her engagements to the said nation: that more than two-thirds of the whole number of chiefs and warriors of the Creek nation, disregarding the genuine spirit of existing treaties, suffered themselves to be instigated to violations of their national honor, and the respect due to a part of their own nation faithful to the United States and the principles of humanity, by impostures denominating themselves Prophets, and by the duplicity and misrepresentation of foreign emissaries, whose governments are at war, open or understood, with the United States.

" He is " both Spenser's textual exploration of the kinds of duplicity that inhabit all metaphoric imitation, and his attempt to limit that duplicity to the text itself.

After Harry Price's death in 1948, three members of the English Society for Psychical Research, two of whom had been Price's most loyal associates, investigated his claims about Borley and published their findings in a book, The Haunting of Borley Rectory, in 1956, which concluded that any evidence for a haunting was hopelessly confused by Harry Price's duplicity.

Even at this epoch of deception and duplicity, and when political insanity and revenge were rampant, Kilmaine, who had rendered such gallant services to that new and most faithless Republic, had by a judicious retreat ( executed against the advice of the meddling and presumptuous representatives of the people, and in consequence thereof perilled his life ), preserved to France her most important army.

Members of Parliament and the Grandees in the New Model Army, when faced with Charles's perceived duplicity, tried and executed him.

Themes developed in the novella's later scenes include the naïveté of Europeans ( particularly women ) regarding the various forms of darkness in the Congo ; the British traders and Belgian colonialists ' abuse of the natives and man's potential for duplicity.

Hammurabi and the king of Larsa made an alliance when they discovered this duplicity and were able to crush the Elamites, although Larsa did not contribute greatly to the military effort.

After Jackson accused Madison of duplicity with Erskine, Madison had Jackson barred from the State Department and sent packing to Boston.

" was conceited, not only about his own learning but also about the opinions held of him as commander both by the Galileans and by the Romans ; he was guilty of shocking duplicity at Jotapata, saving himself by sacrifice of his companions ; he was too naive to see how he stood condemned out of his own mouth for his conduct, and yet no words were too harsh when he was blackening his opponents ; and after landing, however involuntarily, in the Roman camp, he turned his captivity to his own advantage, and benefitted for the rest of his days from his change of side.

They portrayed him as a tragic figure caught in a web of Argentine and Brazilian duplicity who mobilized the nation to repulse its enemies, holding them off heroically for five bloody, horror-filled years until Paraguay was finally overrun and prostrate.

Smith subsequently attacked Wilson in his memoirs, accusing him of delaying tactics during negotiations and alleging duplicity ; Wilson responded in kind, questioning Smith's good faith and suggesting that Smith had moved the goal-posts whenever a settlement appeared in sight.

Though Napoleon did not fulfill his promise, strained Anglo-American relations prevented his being brought to task for his duplicity.

On 29 June 1159, the distribution of income from ecclesiastical goods, the third of its Reus parish of Santa Maria was awarded to the camerlengo, starting the duplicity of governing the town.

* In William Shakespeare's tragedy, Othello, the antagonist Iago has been noted by some literary critics as being archetypal in adhering to Machiavelli's ideals by advancing himself through machination and duplicity with the consequence of causing the demise of both Othello and Desdemona.

Both parties had had numerous extramarital affairs by that time and Lamb had long been known to eschew duplicity.

This in turn aroused the anger of Llywelyn the Great who had an understanding with Giles de Braose and the seeming duplicity caused the Welsh to attack de Braose lands in Brecon and Abergavenny and Gower.

When her cover was blown, she became a regular aboard Crow's ship ; he encouraged her visits because he remained in love with her, despite her duplicity.

When the rebellion broke out, Lovat acted with characteristic duplicity.

Alfred then issues the uncensored report exposing Duffy's duplicity and walks out.

Loki, the god notorious for his duplicity, conspires with the other Æsir to recover Mjölnir by disguising Thor as Freyja and presenting him as the " goddess " to Þrymr.

Although Hutchinson apparently had no hand in this assignment, his opponents were quick to accuse him of further duplicity.

Furious at her duplicity in secretly arranging for the colonization of O ’ Neill territory, he burned down all the major buildings in the area, making it difficult for the plantation to take hold.

Whether the story of Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos be true or not, Fravitta stands disgraced by this duplicity.

Efforts to determine his fate were initially met with resistance and duplicity by US embassy officials in Santiago.

If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.

If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.

Pope Leo 13, on the 13th day of December 1898, granted the following indulgences: `` An indulgence of three hundred days is granted to all the Faithful who read the Holy Gospels at least a quarter of an hour.

" The vow of brahmacarya is meant to help one completely abstain from sex indulgence in work, words, and mind – at all times, under all circumstances and in all places.

Saint Francis of Assisi, in Catholicism, is said to have received instruction directly from God and it is believed that he grants plenary indulgence to all who confess their sins and visit his chapel on the appropriate day.

Ethical egoists such as Rand who readily acknowledge the ( conditional ) value of others to an individual, and who readily endorse empathy for others, have argued the exact reverse from Rachels, that it is altruism which discriminates: " If the sensation of eating a cake is a value, then why is it an immoral indulgence in your stomach, but a moral goal for you to achieve in the stomach of others?

You declaim bitterly against the luxury of priests, the ambition of bishops, the tyranny of the Roman Pontiff, and the babbling of the sophists ; against our prayers, fasts, and Masses ; and you are not content to retrench the abuses that may be in these things, but must needs abolish them entirely ... Look around on this ‘ Evangelical ’ generation, and observe whether amongst them less indulgence is given to luxury, lust, or avarice, than amongst those whom you so detest.

Unlike other Indian schools of philosophy, the Cārvākas argued that there is nothing wrong with sensual indulgence.

To be classed as a manic episode, while the disturbed mood is present at least three ( or four if only irritability is present ) of the following must have been consistently prominent: grand or extravagant style, or expanded self-esteem ; reduced need of sleep ( e. g. three hours may be sufficient ); talks more often and feels the urge to talk longer ; ideas flit through the mind in quick succession, or thoughts race and preoccupy the person ; over indulgence in enjoyable behaviors with high risk of a negative outcome ( e. g., extravagant shopping, sexual adventures or improbable commercial schemes ).

The Pope is signing and selling indulgence s.

Some people believe it means celibacy, while others believe in walking the golden path of moderation, which is to say, not too far to the side of forceful control and total abandonment of all human pleasures, but also not too far to the side of total indulgence and the total abandonment of moderation.

Leo's comparatively humble background is obvious to all and he does not really fit in there ; however, his hosts do their best to make him feel welcome, treating him with kindness and indulgence.

But later the Shakyamuni rejected extreme asceticism because it is an impediment to ultimate freedom ( nirvana ) from suffering ( samsara ), choosing instead a path that met the needs of the body without crossing over into luxury and indulgence.

Shiva, the master of spirituality and restraint, is considered superior to the indulgence ( bhoga ) and materialism celebrated in the female form.

The term ' Mary Sue ' is thought to evoke the cliché of the adolescent author who uses writing as a vehicle for the indulgence of self-idealization rather than entertaining others.

" You can forgive Gervais a certain arrogance after the success of The Office, but ..." He remarks on the confused tone of the series, taking in the clash between the broad comedy of characters Barry ( Shaun Williamson ) and Darren ( Stephen Merchant ), and the apparent parody of this style with When The Whistle Blows, and " given their total indulgence of Gervais, the BBC is portrayed as interfering, its comedy department run by a rather crudely stereotyped gay couple ".

If I have perchance omitted anything more or less proper or necessary, I beg indulgence, since there is no one who is blameless and utterly provident in all things.