The phrase "charade about" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used when describing a situation or statement that is insincere or false. Example: Mary put on a charade about being happy in her relationship, but everyone could see that she was miserable.
But analysts are forecasting that companies in the S&P 500 will achieve a further 10.9% growth in earnings per share in 2014.There is an element of charade about this forecast.
"High Spirits" is a flaccid adaptation of Noel Coward's classic charade about Charles, a dapper novelist, and his two wives: Elvira, dead five years, now the "Blithe Spirit" of the play's title, and Ruth, still alive, for the moment.
But it is disheartening that a matter of such importance as confirming a Supreme Court Justice is a charade — about the nature of the job, about the character of the nominee, and about a process that tells us everything except what we need to know.
We carried on the charade for about two hours before I gave up and tried to go to sleep.
The idea, which was aimed at the company's clientele, did so well that some "customers" carried on the charade and tweeted about their Black Friday "delivery".
Everything about CHARADE (1963) is stylist: its stars (Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant), its setting (Paris), its music (by Henry Mancini) and its direction (by Stanley Donen, even though it's Hitchcockian in every way).
What: This impressive nineteenth-century building with its traditional wood-panelled reception area and old lift with wrought-iron gate was used to film the remake of Charade, The Truth About Charlie.
This whole campaign charade has been about him.
Tells about the charade and games played between Albany and Beame.
What's truly dumb about this charade is that Ms. McCarthy is not an ideologue.
Wiley struggles to keep up this charade, getting more excited about his other plans.
