Sentence examples for deceptive prosperity from inspiring English sources
Yet the appearance was deceptive: prosperity was based on a high oil price, which in turn financed a political spoils-system of cronyism and corruption.
In this time of deceptive prosperity, Mr. Truman's voice sounded somewhat hollow as he went on asking for the things that the country was ready to accept in a depression.
This is the what is deceptive about the American prosperity gospel.
Instead, I see prosperity theology as truncated, deceptive and dangerous, as do many Christians and as does Zacharias.
"The prosperity of the Eisenhower Age is a deceptive sign of vigor and health," Norman Podhoretz wrote in Commentary as the 1960 campaign opened.
This film's ironies are built into the plot: a rich man who owes his success to his romantic tragedy; a struggling family torn apart by newfound prosperity; the blindness of the law, the deceptive charms of gaudy luxury, and — from a strictly cinematic perspective — the humble exhilarations of music and dance devoid of production numbers.
Americans for Prosperity, the Koch brothers-funded non-profit political shop, aired deceptive advertisements claiming that net neutrality is somehow a plot by bureaucrats "to takeover the Internet".
A monograph is deceptive.
Appearances can be deceptive.
