Wandering in afauxpastoral, the nomadic dervish has no town, no ethnicity, and no specific territory.
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Nevertheless, it is instructive to trace hisfauxpas.
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And the two possibilities are (a) the body (yielding real proprioception and kinesthesis), and (b) a body emulator (yieldingfauxproprioception and kinesthesis).
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The emerging lavatories were ornate and luxurious, includingfaux-marble crown molding and white enamel urinals.
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Next are the 'fauxsavants', all wearing gold spectacles; claiming science to be infallible, they chant contemporary scientific words with obvious anachronism.
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It is that the counterfeiter, if not the passer, can be thought of as an officerfaux.
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This formulation is preferred by politicians and professional athletes who have made some egregiousfauxpas or been caught in especially sordid straits.
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By contrast, motor imagery is a sequence offauxproprioception and kinesthesis.
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This finding suggests difficulty in truly empathizing with the characters in the stories or an indifference to the impact of thefauxpas on the speaker or the listener.
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They were then asked a series of questions that address detection and understanding of thefauxpas, the mental state of the listener and the mental state of the speaker.
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Indeed, his deft addition of "and so on" at the end of the transcription reiterates hisfaux-indifference to the devolution of language from superficial civility to rash irrationality.
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However, thisfauxpas was carried by a majority.
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In my view, item 4 has been included because of afauxpas by a number of colleagues.
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It really was an awfulfauxpas, was it not, seriously to suggest that the facts are not available?
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Instead of that, he made what we felt was a most unfortunatefauxpusrecently.
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