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
On his arrival he found there assembled the senate and people of this perfidious nation, who, conformably to his orders, had repaired thither, seeking to deceive him by a false show of submission and devotion....
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
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 Harry Leon Wilson
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 Edmund Burke
How, and by what memorable feature, did last June differ from this October? and what followed, by its false show of subtlety, discredited the whole explanation.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various
