Sentence examples for a phony one. from inspiring English sources

The distinction between bond purchases from the government and from the banks that bought them from the government is a phony one that gives rise to myriad possibilities for circumvention.

I've always thought that the trade-off between protecting the environment and jobs was a phony one; people want both, but at certain times, their preference for one is greater than the other.

"A true democracy," she says, "not a phony one," like Iran.

Why did he feel he had to invent a phony one?

I am a proud Democrat who can tell a phony one clearly, especially when it's demonstrated by four years of remarkably consistent criminal (and profoundly conservative) decisions by him.

Not a phony one that pretends at populism while casting blame downwards at society's most marginalized, e.g the "Tea Party". The delusion that there is something akin to an organized movement on the left combined with the right's co-opting of terms like "grassroots" and "populist" has the collective polity's head spinning like a scene from The Exorcist.

What might have been a pleasant nature documentary -- though a somewhat phony one, since the pandas were transported to China from American zoos -- has instead become a gooey, overscored, underwritten, and mercifully short period costume drama.

Even the organization taking credit for the campaign -- the California Drivers Alliance -- is phony, one of more than a dozen fake grassroots groups WSPA has created to promote its agenda.

"I don't think there is a single character in 'The Graduate' that is not a phony, to one degree or another, except Benjamin and Elaine, and only in the scenes when they are alone together".

That the grownup life exemplified by Carson was in large part phony (one discovered upon reaching it), a construct of television entertainment itself, simply added to its desirability.

The lasting quality of a luxury Louis Vuitton Speedy 35 handbag is not even close in style and substance to the phony one purchased after onerous negotiations in a disreputable Canal Street basement infested with rats and roaches.