Sentence examples for charade from from inspiring English sources

It was a charade from the start".

It seemed like a charade, from start to finish.

He claims the whole thing has been a blatantly political charade from the outset.

"This charade from Baghdad really has gone on much too long," Mr. Holbrooke said.

Jurgen Schrempp, DaimlerChrysler's chairman and the architect of the merger, ill-advisedly boasted last fall that the "merger of equals" talk was a charade from the start.

From the opening charade – a cascade from sparkling piccolo down to the contrabassoon's murky depths – the balance of vibrant, concertante exchanges between instruments and more contemplative episodes is engaging.

Granted, we spoke mostly in charades, but from what I could gather, there would be much food and we'd almost definitely get to eat it.

Meanwhile, fraught teachers attempt to perform an impossible charade far removed from their day-to-day existence.

(Though he has steamed the Boston inflections from his altar boy speech cadences, his vowel enunciation when he speaks French gives him away.) Ms. Hamilton and the rest of the cast, notably Mr. Robbins in the Walter Matthau role from "Charade" and Ted Levine as one of the gang after Regina -- do very fine work.

"We are all worn out from this charade.

Most involved child pornography, but two stemmed from the charade he pulled off for two years.