Sentence examples for a charade on from inspiring English sources
For as this book reveals, Nadal's gladiatorial on-court personality is a charade: on the inside, despite all his success, he remains the unconfident little boy convinced he will never be good enough.
The candidates might be playing simple politics – no one wants to be seen agreeing with Barack Obama or Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton, who called climate denial a "charade" on Sunday night – but they have also tried out several arguments to discredit the dangers and science of climate change.
"Stop rolling!" Rachel mutters, putting on a charade of her own, behaving as if she were so disgusted that she's about to quit.
Because Don and his longtime companion, Bebe Susan Sarandonn), have never married, he and Ellie feel obligated to put on a charade of happy matrimony to impress Madonna, who doesn't approve of divorce.
But by not immediately picking a successor, Mr. Putin injected an unexpected degree of political drama into an election season that his critics have increasingly derided as a charade of democracy that, on Tuesday, was threatening to drive two of the leading opponents in the presidential race to quit in frustration.
Our insistence on at least a charade of democracy is dangerous in another way — to ourselves.
The March social media initiative was a six-second game of charades on Vine, a video clip app, for St . Patricks Day; its message was, "You don's have to put on a charaDayto be green".
"It is a charade, of course.
It seemed that not just "Jennie" but half the plays in New York were closing that night, fleeing town just as my family and the rest of the tourists would be, as if Christmas on Broadway were a charade put on exclusively for our benefit.
"What a charade going on here … We now have a proposal that is ridiculous on its face, that is that we vote with no debate on the president's job proposal.
Amnesty International called the court decision "a charade based on null and void procedures" and demanded Morsi's release or retrial in a civilian court.
