Lindsay Wagner

The acting served as an outlet for my emotions for some time because I was doing it under the guise of someone else. And that can only be therapeutic up to a point until you truly deal with it and can express it to someone directly. Acting was a helpful outlet for me as a child. In some ways, I can say it saved my life.

American Actress

Edgar Wright

What 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz' and 'World's End' do is smuggle a different movie under the guise of a zombie movie or a cop or alien invasion movie. Even though they all have action and carnage, they are really films about growing up and taking responsibility.

English Director

Henry Miller

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

American Author

Terry Pratchett

There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.

English Author

Jenna Wortham

For all the advances in tech that let us try on various guises to play around with who we are, it seems that we just want new ways to be ourselves.

American Journalist

Harry A. Blackmun

The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.

American Judge

George McGovern

Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.

American Politician

Howard Thurman

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

American Theologian

Bat for Lashes

We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.

English Musician

James Madison

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

American President

Guise often implies a deceptive intention to make something appear different from reality.

Deception Element

While 'guise' can suggest trickery, it can also simply refer to a role without negative connotations.

Not Always Negative

'Guise' might be used in situations involving cultural or social roles and masks we wear.

Cultural Nuance

In a literary context, 'guise' can describe characters adopting different personas artistically.

Literary Flair

Guise is used to express how someone might hide their true feelings or intent.

Emotional Disguise

 are all advocating against the idea of perfection under this guise that somehow not trying to be perfect will save your self-esteem and protect your ego. But, see, it's not working, because the self-help industry today has a higher recidivism rate because it's more focused on teaching you how to accept being a failure

We should aim for...

 the rate of planets, but crucially, intelligence. I think that's the wrong way to think about it. Intelligence appears all over the place, in all kinds of guises. Human intelligence is only one kind of a thing. But what's really important is the replicators you have

Susan Blackmore: Memes...

 also chemistry various scientific disciplines all can be presented in the guise of we're looking for et so to me this is this is interesting and important and in fact it's my policy even though I give a lot of talks to adults you give talks to adults in two

ET is (probably) out...

 How to ensure our digital identities reflect our real world identities? Do we want them to be the same? How do we mimic the way trust is built face-to-face online? How do we stop people who've behaved badly in one community doing so under a different guise?

Rachel Botsman: The...

 in which abusers pick up information about you that you don't otherwise want them to know. It is not uncommon for abusers to go to friends and family and ask for information about their victims under the guise of being concerned about their "mental health."

What you need to know...

 and since we invited him here, he felt that he has got a responsibility. He wanted to be a Moses here, he gave us democracy. He is not a political man, but in this guise he has given us the institution for democracy, from where we can rise.

Nathaniel Kahn: My...

 obviously biology, obviously astronomy, but also geology, also chemistry, various scientific disciplines all can be presented in the guise of, "We're looking for E.T." So to me this is interesting and important, and in fact,

Seth Shostak: ET is...

 to make that world come to life and reveal its many surprises narupa paints it in vivid painstaking detail what emerges is a rainforest where plants can take on many different guises they can be parasites they can be

The Secret Life of...

 but don't be fooled. Some words are capable of taking on different guises, masquerading as nouns, verbs and adjectives that alter their meanings entirely. This seeming superpower is called lexical ambiguity.

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 successfully lobbied states to preemptively ban plastic bag bans under the guise of protecting the consumer and the grocery stores and so the plastic bag remains as does our plastic