guise

Example Sentences

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Here, Melville is an American Kafka or Gogol, and in this guise, he skewers our pervasive national ethos that values ambition and striving above all.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mawuli was sitting cross-legged in the corner, playing with a box of nails under the guise of selecting them for Togbe.

From Literature

"The world's still full of those confused little boys creating chaos in the world in the guise of men and hopefully this is a little microcosm of that which helps us understand that," he adds.

From BBC

Slater told no one of his plan, and traveled in the guise of a farmer.

From Barron's

What emerges from “Tradecraft” is not just the portrait of a master storyteller, but of a man driven by a relentless search for narrative truth in all its guises.

From The Wall Street Journal