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)
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)
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
Only that traitor which we call judgment had been keeping up a false show of resolute opinion, just to lure the beguiled heart farther and farther on in a mistaken security.
From Mercy Philbrick's Choice by Jackson, Helen Hunt
