• A polite fiction is a social scenario in which all participants are aware of a truth, but pretend to believe in some alternative version of events to avoid...
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    Politeness is the practical application of good manners or etiquette so as not to offend others and to put them at ease. It is a culturally defined phenomenon...
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  • and fiction; they are confined within the fictional space of the James Bond universe and yet wholly separate from it. Simon's website says of A Polite Fiction...
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  • Empire but acted as de facto independent rulers who maintained the polite fiction of Ottoman suzerainty. However, starting from around 1882, the rulers...
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    Etiquette (/ˈɛtikɛt, -kɪt/) is the set of norms of personal behaviour in polite society, usually occurring in the form of an ethical code of the expected...
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    sequences Non-apology apology Non-denial denial Plausible deniability Polite fiction Scotomization Self-deception Self-fulfilling prophecy Skepticism The...
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    the room The Emperor's New Groove Groupthink Mutual knowledge (logic) Polite fiction Pluralistic ignorance Spiral of silence Three men make a tiger Wishful...
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  • additional detail on ironic reception of the film. Backhanded compliment Polite fiction Sarcasm Ichikawa, Sanki. (1964). The Kenkyusha Dictionary of Current...
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    investors to avoid negative financial information Polite fiction – Known falsehood a group shares for politeness Seeing pink elephants Skeleton in the closet...
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    impossible in life. In this manner, Go-Yōzei himself could enjoy the polite fiction of being the son of an emperor. Daughter (1562–67, mother speculated)...
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  • entendre Double-talk Doublespeak Award Euphemism Obfuscation Obscurantism Polite fiction "Pentagon Is Given an Award, but It's No Prize". The New York Times...
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  • membership of a subject in order to add clarity Linguistics portal Polite fiction Euphemism Epistemic modality Lakoff, George (1972). "Hedges: A study...
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    decorative arts firm, cutting Rossetti out of the business, and the polite fiction that both men were in residence with Jane at Kelmscott could not be...
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    impossible in life. In this manner, Go-Yōzei himself could enjoy the polite fiction of being the son of an emperor. 21–25 August 1598 (Keichō 3, 20-24th...
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    Characteristically, the issues were not extensive and, as it has been observed, "the polite fiction was always maintained that Treasury Notes did not serve as money when...
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    Bowdler) Framing (social sciences) Minimisation Persuasive definition Polite fiction Political correctness Political euphemism Puns Sexual slang Spin (propaganda)...
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    entered the staff college. The comte de Morny, as he was called by a polite fiction, served in Algeria in 1834–1835 (during the French conquest of Algeria)...
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    whole country; the great majority are based in Southern England. This polite fiction is not tenable for the US and Canada, and much garden writing is regional...
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  • Equity"- October 1998 "Digital bearer derivatives - mathematics of polite fiction" - November 1998 "One-Way Hash and Micromoney Mitochondria: Digital...
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    the film "Strange Magic" (2014); Simon created the installation "A Polite Fiction" (2014). Kelly made a curtain, Spectrum VIII (2014), consisting of 12...
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    Britain "the doctrine of virtual representation was no more than a polite fiction. Indeed the assertion that there were no fundamental differences of...
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  • the title implied subordination to the Sultan but this was in fact a polite fiction: Ottoman power in Egypt was finished and Muhammad Ali, an ambitious...
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  • successfully absorbed into the Uí Néill ambit that their kings, by a polite fiction, were accepted into the dominant dynasty circle ... The fact that the...
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    and Germany. It clarifies the "inopportunist" position as largely a polite fiction and notes how it was used by Infallibilists to trivialize the nature...
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    investors to avoid negative financial information Polite fiction – Known falsehood a group shares for politeness Regressive left – Pejorative term for overly...
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  • Sexual themes are frequently used in science fiction or related genres. Such elements may include depictions of realistic sexual interactions in a science...
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  • on legitimate military targets is an example. Political correctness Polite fiction "Distancing language, what it is, and why you must crush it". Nonprofit...
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    magazines was an "open secret", with these alibis existing mostly as a polite fiction. An example of contemporary skepticism is a 1959 exposé in Sports Illustrated...
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    rudeness in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Beebe, L. M. (1995). "Polite fictions: Instrumental rudeness as pragmatic competence". In Alatis, J. E.;...
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  • the title implied subordination to the Sultan but this was in fact a polite fiction: Ottoman power in Egypt was finished and Muhammad Ali, an ambitious...
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