Sentence examples similar to a deceptive surface from inspiring English sources

Iowa has revived a nagging doubt that Mr Bush is more deceptive surface than substance.The third lesson from Iowa is that Mr Gore and Mr Bush want to fight the election on completely different grounds.

But in recent weeks, the residents have become all too aware of how deceptive surface appearances can be.

"The Mountain" is contemplative only on its deceptive surface, for the music builds in intensity and urgency, if not in volume and rhythmic drive.

The music, too, is full of deceptive surfaces and tricky allusions.

It it is versatile and deceptive, surfacing in campaigns against Monsanto as well as "my morning routine" videos, where YouTubers breakfast on chia seeds and self-satisfaction.

The movie's simultaneous evocation of both the depravity at work beneath society's deceptive surfaces and the inadequacy of the liberal technocratic order to defend against that depravity is the secret to its success.

With its deceptive surfaces and furniture that doesn't do what it's supposed to, postmodernism is not just the backdrop to but a metaphor for unbridled capitalism, where a plump balance sheet conceals all manner of sins and where marble-effect plastic laminate hides chipboard.

There is a deceptive element of surface simplicity to "Only Yesterday" that is not unlike other tales of immigrant education.

The book has a surface puerility, a deceptive accessibility: it reads like a girls' book.

The show, adapted for American television by Adi Hasak (Shades of Blue) with the first two episodes directed by Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight), offers a deceptive substance lying below the surface.

Sanctions: a word that rises to the surface and shimmers for a deceptive moment before it bursts.