A deceiver deals in generalities. (Roman) A fair face, a foul heart. (German) A fair skin often covers a crooked mind. (Danish) A few things gained by fraud destroy a fortune otherwise honestly won. (Roman) A great cry for so little wool. (Egyptian) A...

Conscious distortion of behavior or...

Deception is the act of convincing another to believe information that is not true, or not the whole truth as in certain types of half-truths. Deception involves concepts like propaganda, distraction and/or concealment. Fiction, while sometimes...

DECEPTION Our previous president was the proven liar Saturday, July 5, 2003 It was amusing to read the letter by Lester E. Schultz, lambasting the Bush administration for its lies and deceptions ("Tired of being misled by Bush administration," June 28)....

IN THE PAST two decades, among those otherwise humorless novelists and critics in the literary vanguard, there has emerged an odd preoccupation with the idea of play." A kind of prophet in this regard was the French literary critic Roland Barthes, who decried...

Journalism: President Bush has been criticized unmercifully by politicians of all stripes and media of all types for failing to rein in federal spending and letting deficits "soar." But is the criticism fair?The answer, in a word, is no. It's fashionable these days, for Democrats...

As Rudy Giuliuni's campaign continues to deflate—he just finished speaking to less than 50 supporters at an airport in Sanford, Florida (where Jon Voight was introduced by Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum as "Midnight Cowboy, National Treasure, Deliverance")--the battle between John McCain and Mitt Romney...

The many different forms of deception and lying and why people lie, according to the essay "To Do the Right Thing" by Harriet Lerner.