The phrase "charade without" can be used in written English
It typically means something that lacks authenticity or is missing a crucial element. Example: The politician's promises were just a charade without any concrete plans for implementation.
The following week, accompanied by the same young woman, I came across him again and he repeated the entire charade, without any apparent recollection of our previous encounter.
"This whole thing is a charade, and not even he can carry out the charade without messing it up now," Democracy 21 president Fred Wertheimer told The Huffington Post.
The other man completed the thought: "And if they really wanted to distribute any wealth, they can just distribute it without this whole charade".
The junta has no intention of holding a real election, notes columnist Jonathan Manthorpe, "so they have constructed a charade aimed at pleasing the gullible without putting their power at risk".
Instead, they perform a daily charade of checking licences that are purchased without a test, and vehicle conditions that are not formally regulated.
In presenting his 2012 budget proposal, Mr. Emanuel said he would delete more than 1,200 perennially unfilled officer positions from the books "to end the charade of carrying hundreds of police officer vacancies without actually hiring them".
But it is surely his own memory of "Charade," and of its period, that he is honoring, and without that act of observance the new movie makes no sense.
Just look at the gilded liberals who play off class antagonism without addressing it (Obama is brilliant at this charade).
Even if the Tories still win the election, without a massive increase in seats this whole charade will have been for nothing.
Such appointments would reinforce a widely held view among political analysts that the elections amount to a charade in which Myanmar's top generals simply exchange army fatigues for civilian clothes without altering the nation's power structure.
But the charade persists.
