Sentence examples for a charade that from inspiring English sources

The so-called invisible hand is a charade that allows those who have to gain more.

Her most generous gesture, however, turned into a charade that left her tired and disappointed.

The play, like the couple's affair, is a charade that requires faith.

The players are assigned to extend the run of a charade that began some 20 years earlier.

He added: "Instead of accountability, the State Department offered a charade that included false reports of firings and resignations and now ends in a game of musical chairs where no one misses a single day on the State Department payroll".

When James Bingham, an assistant treasurer at Xerox, first blew the whistle on the photocopier company's accounting tricks in 2000, he admitted that he had initially been an enthusiastic participant in a charade that led the group to overstate its profits by $1.4 billion between 1997 and 2001.

At the same time, Democrats are continuing to portray the select committee's work as a partisan charade that had little to do with enfranchising Florida's six million voters and everything to do with providing Gov. George W. Bush with an insurance policy should Mr. Gore begin to prevail in his legal challenges.

Stephen's routine is a ludicrous charade that serves to perfectly underline his philosophy: society's attitude towards the human body in public needs to be re-wired.

It was an unattractive charade that served only to fatten the fees of its bloated corps of advisers, and it might have lasted even longer had the Takeover Panel not been given the power to force stalkers of InBev's ilk to either put up or shut up.

Hadid is notable by her absence – her expert PR man no doubt knowing all too well how the film would pan out – while Foster is vindicated as the one architect with the sense to drop out of the race, before his practice wasted precious resources on an elaborate charade that would ultimately come to nothing.

Talks will fail if ordinary Syrians see them as little more than a cover for escalating violence on the ground or as a diplomatic charade that does little more than raise false hopes.