false show
Example Sentences
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But the false show of bravado helped propel Wallace into the governorship in 1962.
From Time Magazine Archive
Let no false show of fame, your reason blind.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Scott, Walter, Sir
How, and by what memorable feature, did last June differ from this October? and what followed, by its false show of subtlety, discredited the whole explanation.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various
Everything that the garish daylight shows, which can never show them the depths of the other's heart, is a false show, an ugly delusion.
From The Wagnerian Romances by Brownell, Gertrude Hall
The Vicar's body stretched tight the seams of his black coat and kept up, at fifty-seven, a false show of muscular energy.
From The Three Sisters by Sinclair, May
