As experienced by the dissimulator, the burden of effort may range from grin-and-bear-it at the easiest, through lip biting and muttering, to teeth-grinding determination at the most difficult.
A fierce attack on the hypocritical morality of the bourgeois society and the capitalist invasion into the country and destruction of the English peasantry.
(" I do object to being beaten by three canting natives, " harrumphed Cecil Rhodes at the time.) Its modern government was built on relatively pluralistic traditional institutions.
Every body declared that he was the wickedest young man in the world; and every body began to find out that they had always distrusted the appearance of his goodness.
The hypocrite may have, most likely has, (for he is a man of brains, ) a conscious rule of life, but it is never that of the person to whom his hypocrisy is directed.
Her sadness turned to fury. " And I promise you that if you are not gone before the sun comes up, we will learn how well a liar's tears can quench dragonfire. Leave me, Xaro. Quickly" .
Hypocrisy at such a moment is worse than useless, and I therefore do not condole with you, particularly as the event, though new to a banished man like me, occurred so long since.
But the overall impact highlights the novel's underlying themes: the hypocrisy of many but compassion of some; the way craven people get the callous rulers they deserve, yet now and then rise to a nobility that deserves better.