Sentence examples for and phony in the from inspiring English sources

Jerome seeks refuge from all that is crass and phony in the suburbs at Strathmore Academy, an art school in a section of New York City so rough that the smoking laws are never enforced and a serial killer ranges freely, strangling his victims when the mood strikes or the film's rickety plot seems to require it.

That kind of racial bromance can be forced and phony in cop-flick movies that try to convey the same feeling - two buddies, one black, one white, on a mission.

A score was composed for the movie, but Beresford had it removed because he felt it was "too sweet" and sounded phony in the context of the film, although he acknowledged it as "very skillful".

State attorneys general launched a coordinated effort to settle broad foreclosure fraud allegations last year after banks were caught using forged signatures and phony documents in the foreclosure process, a practice dubbed "robo-signing".

Ron Rosenbaum of Slate, in a very negative review of Joel's work, criticized "Captain Jack," summarizing the song as, "Loser dresses up in poseur clothes and masturbates and shoots up heroin and is an all-around phony in the eyes of the songwriter who is so, so superior to him".

Among other nasty allegations, the lawsuits claim that Levine Leichtman staged a frantic late-night Mother's Day session last year concocting bogus orders and phony work-in-progress entries.

I may be that phony in the pew beside you.

"They may have been phony in the past, but they are very real now," Spicer said.

I have no reason to doubt that the phony egg is phony in the way he says it is.

In March 2017, then-press secretary Sean Spicer was asked whether the newly released jobs numbers were still "phony" in the eyes of the president.

"They may have been phony in the past, but it's very real now," then-White House press secretary Sean Spicer quoted the president as saying.