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

How can you be so foolish, and believe in such false show?

From The Home by Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham)

Lady Norah and Violet Dufaure were somewhat at cross-purposes, each preferring to talk to Stillford and endeavoring, under a false show of amity, to foist Captain Irons on to the other.

From Helena's Path by Hope, Anthony

I walked to the farthest window and stood a long time gazing pensively out; I wished to be away from that false show.

From Ruggles of Red Gap by Wilson, Harry Leon

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