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    1. Assumptions by modern revisionists seeking to belie historical traditions, avidly supported by special interests with political axes to grind, however discredited such assumptions oftentimes are, may further promote muddled-headed thinking by ultimately winning the battle of ideas, however questionable their premises, by perpetuating falsehoods that, on the surface, oftentimes appear plausible to variable, ―discerning‖ young minds armed with partial knowledge, but sufficient enough to receive distorted impressions at their face value, rendering many vulnerable to questionable or unlikely propositions that bear little or no resemblance to the truth; advanced by (political and social) deconstructionists alienated from their (hated) customs, offering in exchange, contemporary standards predicated on historical fallacies, deception, inflicted reasoning and ignominious viewpoints


    2. ―charitable‖ or ―kindly‖ actions in a manner that (otherwise) belie the ―underlying‖ authority that should otherwise serve as a catalyst for promoting ―good


    3. Our imperfect nature(s), given all its multiple complexities, provides unlimited possibilities for such transgressions whose absence would otherwise belie our human condition


    4. Belie Banks, a former editor of the Mecklenberg Gazette, published in Davidson, said, “I can’t see any change,” and Tom Williams, who sold the Gazette to Park in 1980 and remained general manager until 1982, said, “If their payroll check wasn’t from a different office, nobody here would know the difference


    5. 34 I will not belie you O law my instructor! or forsake you O beloved self control! 35 I will not put you to shame O philosopher Reason; or deny you O honoured priesthood and science of the law


    6. with an ease and simplicity which belie the complexity of the task


    7. Doesn’t her heavy manner belie the burden of her love even?’ The thought that she loved him pleased him even more for her presence


    8. "Then leave Me Alone with such as belie this Koran


    9. I belie ve more than 90% of the people aro und the wo rld a re


    10. confident and belie ve that you can rea lly spend time build ing a

    11. Who really is the Creator/ God? What really is the Creator/ God? But questions such as, “how did the Creator/ ‘God’ come to be” and “how could the Creator/ ‘God’ have always been” and “how could anything exist forever”, are concepts in consciousness that belie a clear and transparent answer


    12. "I think you belie her," said Heathcliff, twisting his chair to face them


    13. But with what fitness, let it be asked of the noble lord, his patron, has this alien, whom the concession of a gracious prince has admitted to civic rights, constituted himself the lord paramount of our internal polity? Where is now that gratitude which loyalty should have counselled? During the recent war whenever the enemy had a temporary advantage with his granados did this traitor to his kind not seize that moment to discharge his piece against the empire of which he is a tenant at will while he trembled for the security of his four per cents? Has he forgotten this as he forgets all benefits received? Or is it that from being a deluder of others he has become at last his own dupe as he is, if report belie him not, his own and his only enjoyer? Far be it from candour to violate the bedchamber of a respectable lady, the daughter of a gallant major, or to cast the most distant reflections upon her virtue but if he challenges attention there (as it was indeed highly his interest not to have done) then be it so


    14. 'I see that strange tales are woven about you,' said Denethor, 'and once again it is shown that looks may belie the man - or the halfling


    15. ‘I think you belie her,’ said Heathcliff, twisting his chair to face them


    16. It was with reluctance that he suffered her to go; but there was no look of despair in parting to belie his words, or give her hopes of his being less unreasonable than he professed himself


    17. However, a warm savory steam from the kitchen served to belie the apparently cheerless prospect before us


    18. For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly felicities ever have a certain unsignifying pettiness lurking in them, but, at bottom, all heartwoes, a mystic significance, and, in some men, an archangelic grandeur; so do their diligent tracings-out not belie the obvious deduction


    1. belied his basically friendly manner, looked as if he had seen service


    2. manifestation was belied by the unconcerned appearance of the


    3. His kind, worried face belied the


    4. This woman must be her aunt, but her youthful appearance belied the fact that she was almost twice Rosemary's age


    5. “I will try to come and see you later on but if I cannot then be sure that I will be praying for you tomorrow”, and then she hugged me to her with a strength that belied her frailness


    6. She looked him straight in the eye, trying to exude a confidence that belied the terror within her


    7. She had not had an easy time of it and to her credit had turned out to be an intelligent, strong and forthright young woman with an outward appearance that belied her soft and gentle heart


    8. "Oh it's nothing to worry yourself about really," I replied, but my smile belied my statement


    9. He hadn’t moved, but his casual posture was now belied by the tension in his frame


    10. It was the kind of smile that belied her words

    11. Her aging visage belied a keen, cold and calculating brain, yet she was just a little old lady of the admittedly ruthless Imperial species


    12. Hilderich was insisting that Amonas listened to what he had to say, tugging his cloak with a grip that belied his feebleness and injuries


    13. The Pilgrim resumed his walking pace, his feet kicking up the sand with an ease that belied the fact that it was a feat in itself


    14. His answer sounded somewhat harsh, an edge in his voice that belied his years:


    15. 12 They have belied the Lord, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come on us;


    16. He then turned toward the south and walked on with a spring in his step that belied his age


    17. Her back was straight, and her face was solemn and lined with a grief that belied her relative youth


    18. 17 To outward appearance they received us willingly; but belied that appearance by


    19. 17 To outward appearance they received us willingly; but belied that appearance by their deeds


    20. The hardwood bar was well built and included amenities that belied its primitive location

    21. Still tasting the Overlord’s words in his mind, Simon smiled; he couldn’t help noticing how the other man’s costume belied him


    22. The scarecrow wasn’t as nimble as his opponent, but seemed to have a strength and skill that belied his awkward lopsided appearance


    23. with a little chuckle that belied the anger tightening his brows


    24. Terry was huge for his age, his red hair and freckles belied the fact that he was a strong as an ox


    25. ‖ His monotone belied his emotional catharsis


    26. ‖ Lonnie‘s proclaimed bravado belied his doubts


    27. Know what I mean?‖ Skeets words had an edge but his attitude belied the sharpness of his intentions causing the surgeon to look around


    28. age belied the man; Don held a ninth degree Black Belt in Judo and had repre-


    29. Some experts belied that this pigeon species may be a


    30. A gloved hand seized Doctor Kimiko's arm with an iron strength that was belied by the size of it

    31. With a gentleness that belied the size of his hands, he plucked a piece of thread-like membrane from the leaf and placed it on the table before her


    32. “Really?” Alex’s tone belied his surprise at her confession, though


    33. he treated them with a caring and gentleness that belied his physical


    34. edge that belied his hence unruffled demeanor


    35. The woman in their group, whose beauty belied her nature as a hardened killer, suddenly tensed up and raised her pistol while shouting a warning


    36. Yet, for all the apprehension of the night, there was energy in the air, one that belied the uneasy expectation of the coming day


    37. With reflexes which belied his size, Trog brought the wolf carcass round in an arc, thrusting it


    38. " His easy smile belied the intense burning of his eyes as he stared into hers


    39. His calm demeanor belied the fact that he’d just killed a male


    40. Thomas’ dream to proselytize the polity and belied Mahmud’s hopes to see a Muslim India? The logical and rational answer would be that the Hindus are neither heathens as assumed by the Christians nor are they idolaters as presumed by the Musalmans

    41. Byron was called to the set, a room within the house of ill repute, though actually a large purposely constructed building that belied the magic it was supposed to contain


    42. He the Almighty says: {… so We saved him and those along with him in the ship, and We drowned those who belied Our revelations


    43. She stared at him in stunned silence, shaking her head in denial at his words, while at the same time her eyes belied this action, their hopeful expression unconsciously mirroring her innermost desires…a desire that more than matched his own


    44. The smile on Sher’s lips belied the contempt in her eyes


    45. The simple outside belied what lay within


    46. His pocked face and unkempt hair belied the heart of gold that beat beneath his grease-stained “John” insignia


    47. But his expression belied him


    48. The administrator of the Outward Bound School, a barrel-chested Englishman about fifty years old, had a calm and almost laconic manner that was not immediately reassuring and belied the total control he exerted over his staff and students


    49. her figure belied its trained strength


    50. But the length belied the interest to be shown both inside and outside the chamber































    1. ‘Now, now, this is consecrated ground, you know!’ But even if we’d not seen the smile on his face, his tone belies his words


    2. But once again, self-esteem, this time of the teaching vocation, belies the results


    3. WORD – SWORD belies the meaning that these two symbols relate


    4. the look that belies -


    5. “Well, sir, Miss Ashton belies her years in terms of experience and skill


    6. ” (this belies the “no effort on his part” interpretation from Appendix I – but nothing is perfect)


    7. different planets that it belies its universal appeal of overcoming natural disasters as perhaps one of the most common archetypes shared amongst all sentient beings


    8. Later, when he becomes king of Thebes and he meets Teireisias, he treats him with an attitude that belies his arrogant heart and he doesn’t listen to anyone


    9. politically active, not less, which also belies the critics’ claim that


    10. This obvious truth belies all of the selective exceptions to the rule

    11. However, that excuse belies the fact that Larson was not in love with Reagan


    12. "What have I done—what have I done! I have not told of anything that interferes with or belies my love for you


    13. It seems, in fact, as though there existed in certain men a veritable bestial instinct, though pure and upright, like all instincts, which creates antipathies and sympathies, which fatally separates one nature from another nature, which does not hesitate, which feels no disquiet, which does not hold its peace, and which never belies itself, clear in its obscurity, infallible, imperious, intractable, stubborn to all counsels of the intelligence and to all the dissolvents of reason, and which, in whatever manner destinies are arranged, secretly warns the man-dog of the presence of the man-cat, and the man-fox of the presence of the man-lion


    14. The simplicity of the great idea, however, belies a more complex challenge every investor faces: How to focus attention on potential ideas that are more likely to be misunderstood by the market, and therefore mispriced


    15. A lot of people tell a good story on shareholder value, but their behavior belies that


    1. ‘I thought it was you driving along … could have given me a lift!’ he complained, his grin belying his words


    2. ’ He said, the warmth in his eyes, belying his words


    3. ’ Kev said, his wary glance at the recording machine belying his words


    4. That the war in Afghanistan was dealt with swiftly and with minimal losses is not so much a blessing for those who privately hope for our defeat; thereby belying the underlying assumptions that have defined our great nation for so many years


    5. It was a very small settlement, belying the suffix -balikh


    6. He did need to rest quite a bit, but when awake he seemed vibrant and energetic belying his years


    7. I looked to his face, his misty eyes belying his words of strength


    8. ‖ As he spoke, Kirby blatantly tested the blade‘s razor edge with his thumb, the reptilian slit of his eye belying his mammalian birthright


    9. One of my favorite Homer Simpson lines is: ‘you can prove anything with facts,’ meaning facts can easily overwhelm us into believing anything belying their true nature


    10. Vulcan look, a frailness in appearance belying her great physical strength, hour glass figure, long, dark hair, and pointed ears that the hair parted to reveal, like a water fall around a flower

    11. The monotone voice, spoke dispassionately, belying the intensity of the moment


    12. Belying his aged appearance, Manfred was swift enough to turn his staff and deflect the energy away from him


    13. He was in his late fifties and lean and fit, his enormous toothy grin belying the fine lines on his face


    14. “Hey, it’s going to be okay,” Cami said to Jonquil, though her voice quavered, belying the way her heart raced and her hands sweated


    15. An icy stare from Barney signaled his displeasure, belying his slow, easy drawl as he welcomed her into the conference room


    16. “And the old fool is seventy-three years old though he tries to act younger and he’s as full of rheumatism as a hog is of fleas,” said Grandma, proud of her husband, the light in her eyes belying her sharp words


    17. “Let’s all calm down here for a second,” says Van Buren, a trill in his voice belying his words


    18. ‘I have the pleasure of being already acquainted, if the countess remembers me,’ said Prince Andrew with a low and courteous bow quite belying Peronskaya’s remarks about his rudeness, and approaching Natasha he held out his arm to grasp her waist before he had completed his invitation


    19. “I have the pleasure of being already acquainted, if the countess remembers me,” said Prince Andrew with a low and courteous bow quite belying Perónskaya’s remarks about his rudeness, and approaching Natásha he held out his arm to grasp her waist before he had completed his invitation


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    be in contradiction with


    represent falsely