In Trilling's account, the focus on sincerity arose in the 16th century, with the Protestant Reformation and its emphasis on individual conscience rather than institutional ritual and doctrine.
Readers interested in the science behind sincerity might want to pair Mr. Magill's book with Dan Ariely's "The Honest Truth About Dishonesty, " just published by Harper.
Challenged by anti-agreement assemblymen to state his current position on decommissioning, Mr Trimble merely said he would test in various ways the sincerity of those newly committed to peace and democracy.
Lionel Trilling took on the task in "Sincerity and Authenticity, " a series of Harvard lectures published in 1972.
"But the ceasefire is contingent on several of our demands being met and we will judge Mr Bozize's sincerity in the coming days, " he told Reuters news agency.
In the realm of the literary arts, Mr. Magill has a field day, zeroing in on Rousseau as the source of our modern literary obsession with sincerity, which the author finds manifest in German and English Romanticism, American Transcendentalism, French Symbolism and other currents that come to look like a tidal wave in favor of finding and flaunting the unvarnished self.
Akins mouthed an apology but his determination to stay in the senatorial race undermines his sincerity.
Sincerity, in the past, would not have been enough to have impressed the Germans.
We think of a man advancing in years with the sweetness and sincerity of a scout saying the pledge.
You do it with your heart, mind and sincerity in serving the people.
Thein Sein, the former general who donned civvies to become president, met her in August, and persuaded her of the sincerity of his reformism.
"When they sat down to write Over The Rainbow, they were writing for somebody who had the vocal range and the sincerity and the capability of communication that those in the know in Hollywood already felt she had, " explained Ken Sefton of the Judy Garland Club.
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In addition to raising concerns about the sincerity with which some new plans are drafted and implemented, CII was troubled by the frequency with which some insiders have cancelled or amended plans to which they were subject.
But the U.S. and its allies are demanding that the North demonstrate its sincerity in ending its drive to acquire nuclear weapons.
It does raise questions about the sincerity of the SEC in working with Congress in the current process of coming up with meaningful regulations on the banking industry in the wake of the most recent financial collapse.
Over time, travel and trade made sincerity ever more important in judging the bona fides of strangers.
She says Broken Social Scene has earned so much international attention in part because of the group's musical sincerity.
His raucous fake persona stands in such sharp contrast to the actual Colbert, whose sincerity and modesty claw their way to the surface every now and again.
President Clinton, whose cynicism never loses its power to astonish, put on a long face and, with that tone of sincerity that betokens his tendentiousness, lamented that the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty had become tangled in politics.
The history of design, he says, can be seen as the search for a visual expression of sincerity, a claim he supports by taking the reader from the simplicity demanded by Protestantism (in rebellion against Baroque Catholicism) to the rise of abstraction in art.
The chaebols have responded by announcing shakeup plans, but there's still some scepticism in South Korea about their sincerity.
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