His search was for character; and in these establishments character did not masquerade in the hypocritical garb of pride and dignity.
The public became so vehement in its praise of this hypocritical and austere art, that Fragonard, that delicious painter of boudoirs, was dismissed as indecent.
He wanted quiet and was ever ill at ease among the superficialities of a hypocritical civilisation.
Its adherents were entirely composed of the creatures and parasites of the Capitalists, with a few honest fools and enthusiasts who naturally did not think deeply enough to discern the aim and the trend of this hypocritical movement.
But the hypocritical ingenuity of British policy was perfectly competent to express this contempt in accents which harmonised with the loftiest sentiments then prevailing.
The case was perplexing; for the parson held Susceptibility in great honour, despite her hypocritical tricks, and did not like to give her a slap in the face, which might frighten her away forever.
Molière who was always a close and keen observer of everything that transpired around him, seized upon the name "Tartuffe" as suitable to the hypocriticalimposter in his comedy.
The hypocritical confessor is an admirable portrait.
Her quick brain makes her a delight to the master, her hypocritical sympathy an actual necessity to his wife.
To her father, Jacob Engstrand, a cunning, low, hypocritical rascal?
Pardon, Captain Hurricane," replies the young woman, dropping her eyes with a hypocritical air.
I mean that I was afraid that I would allow myself to be softened by the tears of his woman, as dangerously hypocritical as she is audaciously culpable.
Not the hypocritical and unprincipled alone, but even such as can hardly be supposed to be destitute of sincerity.
And now, methinks, I hear thee call me an affected hypocritical varlet, who, living under such a system of distrust and restraint as my father chooses to govern by, nevertheless pretends not to envy you your freedom and independence.
All villainous cant and cowardice,' exclaimed the fisherman, 'and assumed merely as a cloak to your hypocritical avarice.
If it were not for yon hypocritical scoundrel at Annan, who has the best end of the profit, and takes none of the risk, I should be well enough--as well as I want to be.
It must have been a good deal stronger at a time when Christianity still had to fight against pagan slackness in these matters, ere Islam had imposed its hypocritical austerity upon the general conduct.
Augustin knew men very well; he could detect low and hypocritical natures at a distance.
In him who gives in such a way there is no hypocritical feeling of charity bestowed.
He has none of the hypocritical elements in his nature strong enough to rule him.
Above all, I am one who hates all falsehood, all hypocritical show.
But I will not stay to be tyrannised over, or insulted by hypocritical pity.
It burns for ever, but, as time works his changes, some new imagined motive must be found for the old passion and the old deed; so over them both science now flings her ample, hypocritical cloak.
Thiers, in particular, are honored with his abuse; and the King himself is held up to execration as a hypocritical tyrant.
He was dressed entirely in black--a hypocritical livery, the somber hue of which suited his fine complexion and perfectly handsome features to admiration.
Read the London newspapers any day and you will find that once "moral" England is running a neck and neck race with other lesshypocritical nations in pursuit of social vice.
I became under the influence of her hypocritical caresses!
Though well aware, from former experience, of her father's hypocritical disguises, she was too full of generosity and candor to allow her heart to entertain suspicion.
The constable of the night, finding that the two hypocritical vagabonds were a nuisance to the whole place, had them handcuffed together, and both placed in the black hole to finish their argument.
It is its most cherished child, all hypocritical sanctimoniousness notwithstanding.
That is the usual avenue of escape for a hypocriticalworld that dares not face the truth.
Here again the sarcasm consists in the hypocritical adaptation of the old axiom that everything in this world can be got for money.
Furthermore, we have some right to regard the burlesque obscenity of academical literature as a partial reaction against the hypocritical refinements of the Petrarchistic mannerism.
This letter, one long tissue of sneers, taunts andhypocritical sarcasms, gives the complete measure of Aretino's arrogance.
From this it is clear that this kind of profanation is a hypocritical kind.
That which emanates therefrom and that appears before the world as good is not good, because it is defiled by evils from within, for it is Pharisaic and hypocritical good.
