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- noun The state of being
inauthentic
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Examples
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I also agree that you have to write from your heart, as inauthenticity is really easy to spot when reading (and what Nin suffered from in her novel writing, I think).
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But inauthenticity is not really such a bad state for a Foucauldian.
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He names his own variously as "inauthenticity" and
Romantic Loves: A Response to _Historicizing Romantic Sexuality_ 2006
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But it does seem to foster a culture of "inauthenticity": It disrupts identity itself by bypassing the conscious mind and targeting aspects of the self over which none of us has control.
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Assuming that "inauthenticity" is a meaningful character flaw as opposed to an it's-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder type of shortcoming, what did Bernstein offer as proof?
David Fiderer: Maureen Dowd, and The Women of Washington Who Project on to Hillary 2008
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I'm a bit puzzled that THIS of all things should be taken as an example of "inauthenticity"; some of the choreography has been updated to pass the 2008 audience's cringe-test, and the style is undoubtedly inflected with the Tamil cinema over the past decade, but there is nothing un-masala about that.
NAACHGAANA 2009
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"inauthenticity" of movies that cast straight actresses as lesbians.
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"inauthenticity" to her in an early episode of the Bravo show.
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You and the governor seem dedicated to pandering to those empty buckets, but trust that such inauthenticity can be glaringly transparent to the American people.
Andy Kutler: Three Men and a Country Andy Kutler 2011
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You and the governor seem dedicated to pandering to those empty buckets, but trust that such inauthenticity can be glaringly transparent to the American people.
Andy Kutler: Three Men and a Country Andy Kutler 2011
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