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Through her fierce exposure of her ugly travails, Ms. Williams’s Anna seems to grow in stature and radiance—becoming a truth-teller who isn’t afraid to risk love, or life, to expose men’s hypocrisies and double standards.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025

And grew up on Mad magazine, where young minds were taught to recognize the deceptions and hypocrisies of politics, business and media.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2025

You did have somebody like Mark Twain write really perceptively about the hypocrisies of that age.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2025

I think kids are flexible and resilient, and a lot of the kids I spoke to see their own hypocrisies.

From Slate • Jul. 19, 2023

“Thanks. We’ll go peep,” Sean said, never one to sugarcoat his displeasure at the hypocrisies of high school nonsense.

From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan