How To Use Falseness In A Sentence
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Nietzsche grew to loathe so intensely in Wagner, — viz., his pronounced histrionic tendencies, his dissembling powers, his inordinate vanity, his equivocalness, his falseness.
Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
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With the mere instinct of femineity she saw the falseness of the assumption that the higher life for man or woman lies in separate and solitary paths through the wilderness of this world.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
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Consider the risk of not acting: the creeping falseness and constraint that comes of an important unacknowledged truth between you (I know whereof I speak).
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The dialogue between Zarathustra and the Magician reveals pretty fully what it was that Nietzsche grew to loathe so intensely in Wagner, -- viz., his pronounced histrionic tendencies, his dissembling powers, his inordinate vanity, his equivocalness, his falseness.
Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none
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And this loveliness was of a nature that was altogether pleasing, if once the beholder of it could get over the idea of falseness which certainly Lizzie’s eye was apt to convey to the beholder.
The Eustace Diamonds
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If Rick hated anything, it was lies, dissembling, falseness, pretension.
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Many of the characters within the play hide behind a mask of falseness.
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The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.
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I've always hated this kind of falseness, preferring instead to try to maintain a realistic view of the world, and I'm sure a lot of others here are the same.
Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums
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And this loveliness was of a nature that was altogether pleasing, if once the beholder of it could get over the idea of falseness which certainly Lizzie's eye was apt to convey to the beholder.
The Eustace Diamonds
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You will find in all my previous notices of the French, continual insistance upon their natural Franchise, and also, if you take the least pains in analysis of their literature down to this day, that the idea of falseness is to them indeed more hateful than to any other
The Pleasures of England Lectures given in Oxford
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When you were in the conversation, it was about one thing: your misunderstanding of the credential argument and your inability to separate your own experience of reading one writer from broad and ridiculous generalizations about the "falseness" of literary fiction.
Question of control...
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I find I can pardon _all_ things in a man except purblindness, falseness of vision, -- for, indeed, does not that presuppose every other kind of falseness?
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
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He achieves too much of a pulpit complacency -- therefore of condescendingness -- therefore of falseness to the deep intimacy of good literature -- when he begins to moralize about time and the universe.
The Art of Letters
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Publicity stunts, artificiality, falseness, popularity contests, and egos, leave me cold, in blogland as in life, and I feel that I don't want to be part of this at present.
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It also represents other states such as hatred, pride, falseness and coquetry, depending on the variety you choose to give.
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Thereafter thought, weighing the truth or falseness of the notion, determines what is true: and this explains the Greek word for thought, dianoia, which is derived from dianoein, meaning to think and discriminate.
NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
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And the word stays in the room, hovering around and changing the air with its own sick-scented falseness.
The Redleys
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The writing of narrative in Senior Chinese commonly exists in falseness, devoid of content and dullness.
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And this loveliness was of a nature that was altogether pleasing, if once the beholder of it could get over the idea of falseness which certainly
The Eustace Diamonds
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But the Evangelists should be clear of every kind of falseness, not only that of lying, but also that of forgetfulness.
Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew
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These units of meaning may not ultimately accumulate, but that's hardly the point; Amato forces his reader to acknowledge the fundamental falseness, absurdity, aimlessness, and finally emptiness of demotic linguistic conventions.
Seth Abramson: December 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews
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The utter falseness and deception that pervade the campaigns of the two parties have imbued the proceedings with an air of unreality.
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After some discussion, the group gives their opinion of the validity or falseness of the disclosure, and the person providing the comment can tell the real story.
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As much as truth may define itself against falseness, at the theater interiority can only be realized as theatricality, subjectivity as impersonation, and authenticity as style.
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Never would the gate of heaven be opened to the knock of any inearthed spirit, did not himself make honest the falseness and insincerity of our desires.
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a kind of falseness in her, she suffered though she had nothing to blush for; more than once an almost irresistible desire sprang up in her heart to tell everything without reserve, whatever might come of it afterwards.
On the Eve
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I have long thought that the motto 'in vino veritas' contains in it far more of 'veritas' than is dreamt of in most people's philosophy, and that the age of rampant total abstinence is the age of special falseness.
My Life as an Author
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That, alone, which has to be guarded against is the falsity, the instinctive duplicity which _would fain_ regard this antithesis as no antithesis at all: just as Wagner did, — and his mastery in this kind of falseness was of no mean order.
The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.
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According to what they are, does the trueness or falseness which the idea harbored come to light.
Meaning of Truth
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It was the falseness of it that Franny and I noticed: the mannequin's chipped face, the obvious wig, and the stiff, unfleshly bust of the dummy — the fake bosom, the still chest, the rigid waist.
The Hotel New Hampshire
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The falseness, the unreality of perpetually putting on a public face and concealing personal suffering have clearly taken their toll.
