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

In order to put on a false show of erudition, you lug into your last article a familiar Latin sentence.

From Hoosier Mosaics by Thompson, Maurice

I could not choose but think that the Evil One had deceived me with a false show, yet, however hard I rubbed my eyes, rye it was and rye it remained.

From Mary Schweidler, the amber witch : the most interesting trial for witchcraft ever known, printed from an imperfect manuscript by her father, Abraham Schweidler, the pastor of Coserow in the island of Usedom / edited by W. Meinhold ; translated from the German by Lady Duff Gordon. by Duff Gordon, Lucie, Lady

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

It was the fashion of old, when an ox was led out for sacrifice to Jupiter, to chalk the dark spots and give the offering a false show of unblemished whiteness.

From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore