Sentence examples for elaborate charade from inspiring English sources
"Washington gridlock" is just an elaborate charade.
Elections, for instance, are an elaborate charade.
Elections became an elaborate charade, with voters stripped of real power.
On Oct. 14, Mr. Spitzer accused Marsh of conducting an elaborate charade of sham bidding.
Whether this should be viewed as advance planning, extreme optimism or an elaborate charade is up to the individual.
This has been described by Professor David Stoddart, a world authority on the Chagos, as "worthless" and "an elaborate charade".
We weren't going to perform elaborate charades like thumping on the roof or making tracks in the snow.
Our democracy is an elaborate public relations charade.
Since the Gulf region is a particularly hot subject these days, drama is automatically lent to their construction of diplomacy as theater, an elaborate and public charade.
In what Diefenbaker biographer Smith states "appears to have been an elaborate and prearranged charade", Diefenbaker attended the nominating convention as keynote speaker, but withdrew when his name was proposed, stating a local man should be selected.
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?
