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

There is no pretence so difficult to maintain as the false show of genial and benevolent feeling.

From A Manual of Moral Philosophy by Peabody, Andrew P. (Andrew Preston)

But if they are not able to fulfil their promises, and, moreover, lack many good things, is not the happiness men seek in them clearly discovered to be a false show?

From The Consolation of Philosophy by James, H. R. (Henry Rosher)

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

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