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...

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...

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...

Ottoman Empire, but acted as de facto independent rulers who maintained a polite fiction of Ottoman suzerainty. However, starting from around 1882, the rulers...

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...

sequences Non-apology apology Non-denial denial Plausible deniability Polite fiction Scotomization Self-deception Self-fulfilling prophecy Skepticism The...

the room The Emperor's New Groove Groupthink Mutual knowledge (logic) Polite fiction Pluralistic ignorance Spiral of silence Three men make a tiger Wishful...

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)...

work judged to be mediocre.[citation needed] Backhanded compliment Polite fiction Sarcasm Ichikawa, Sanki. (1964). The Kenkyusha Dictionary of Current...

membership of a subject in order to add clarity Linguistics portal Polite fiction Euphemism Epistemic modality Lakoff, George (1972). "Hedges: A study...

investors to avoid negative financial information Polite fiction – Known falsehood a group shares for politeness Seeing pink elephants Skeleton in the closet...

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...

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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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...

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...

Equity"- October 1998 "Digital bearer derivatives - mathematics of polite fiction" - November 1998 "One-Way Hash and Micromoney Mitochondria: Digital...

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...

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)...

the film "Strange Magic" (2014); Simon created the installation "A Polite Fiction" (2014). Kelly made a curtain, Spectrum VIII (2014), consisting of 12...

and Germany. It clarifies the "inopportunist" position as largely a polite fiction and notes how it was used by Infallibilists to trivialize the nature...

investors to avoid negative financial information Polite fiction – Known falsehood a group shares for politeness Regressive left – Pejorative term for overly...

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...

Chamberlain is reported to have contracted "diplomatic gout" in 1938. Polite fiction G. Berridge; L. Lloyd (25 January 2012). The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary...

Civil War. Characteristically the issues were not extensive and the "polite fiction" was always maintained that Treasury Notes did not serve as money when...

rudeness in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Beebe, L. M. (1995). "Polite fictions: Instrumental rudeness as pragmatic competence". In Alatis, J. E.;...

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...

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...

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...

the Lord Holders (Lord Meron of Nabol) rather than maintaining the polite fiction that her Weyrleader, T'bor, is her lover. She also finds much of the...