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

The army will not long look to an Assembly acting through the organ of false show and palpable imposition.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

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

Would thou have me to believe, O wise and pious friend, that a false show can be better—can be more for God's glory, or man' welfare—than God's own truth?

From The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel