Sentence examples for charade like from inspiring English sources

It comes over like a charade, like watching paint dry".

Instead of dehumanizing Natives as some gas-huffing ethnic charade like most of the Canadian media, he shows the universality of their lives.

It seems somehow in keeping with the charade-like aura of the Belzoni enterprise that when the remains — which, Hume says, had "the look of a prop left over from a Boris Karloff movie" — were finally autopsied, many years after Sarah's death in 1870, they turned out to belong to a 50-year-old man.

TheatreSports has evolved in an elaborate set of charade-like improv games that Drew Carey popularized with his TV show, Whose Line Is It, Anyway?

Charades ("Sounds like hat? Ooh! Cat!").

We weren't going to perform elaborate charades like thumping on the roof or making tracks in the snow.

To trumpet absolutist aspirations for a "democratic" Afghanistan by implanting new institutions (such as nationwide elections) will result in charades like the flawed and corrupt election in August and the bankrupt run-off in November.

Dietrich presented her nature like a charade, Garbo like a secret among secrets.

In reality, the charade worked like this: we'd arrive, set up, and the engineer would busy himself with bogus preparations.

"This entire charade smells like a railroad job to me," he wrote, according to a message provided by a public relations firm, Citigate Sard Verbinnen, that began representing Ms. Stewart in recent weeks.

The whole charade reads like the script to a low budget German hardcore porn film set in a fictitious town in Alabama, and gets stranger and stranger as it goes on.