unmask

Given his habit of "exposing" the machinery of language and aesthetics, it may seem that Johnson has cast himself in the role of benevolent unmasker of truth, but the reality is more complicated.

Consequently, it is impossible for the subjectivist to use the unmasking strategy, because people's color-beliefs, what he proposes to explain, are unavailable; and if they are made available, the unmasker must grant what he seeks to deny, the objectivity of color.

Westley, too, is a powerful unmasker of all false images of God.

As a committed unmasker, Hallock is a diligent reporter, tracking down war resisters with the kind of zeal rarely exerted by conventional media.

Translated almost immediately into virtually every Western language, his books sold in the millions to readers who saw him as the unmasker of Soviet hypocrisy and the chronicler of its greatest crimes.

"One of the traditions that is haunting us today in the press is that the grand traditions that have lured people into this profession were the civil rights movement and coverage of the civil rights movement and the role the press played in that, in which the press was a liberal reform agent; [and] coverage of Vietnam and coverage of Watergate, in which the press was an unmasker of lies and deception and corruption.