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
The past life is 142 something to be cast aside as false show, just because the self that experienced it was not realized in it.
From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Jones, Henry, Sir
How can you be so foolish, and believe in such false show?
From The Home by Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham)
On his arrival he found there assembled the senate and people of this perfidious nation, who, conformably to his orders, had repaired thither, seeking to deceive him by a false show of submission and devotion.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1 by Guizot, M. (François)
Only that traitor which we call judgment had been keeping up a false show of resolute opinion, just to lure the beguiled heart farther and farther on in a mistaken security.
From Mercy Philbrick's Choice by Jackson, Helen Hunt
