Sentence examples for empty charade from inspiring English sources
WASHINGTON -- Ever since nominees to the Supreme Court started to subject themselves to comprehensive grilling in 1939, their confirmation hearings have been dismissed by the legal elite as an empty charade.
But you know and I know: mere winners are not true leaders — not just because gaming broken systems is nothing but an empty charade of living; but because life is not a game.
So the empty charade of Adams and McGuinness - chief of staff of the IRA - telling us that they have asked the IRA for a groundbreaking gesture is reported straight faced.
There is a principle at stake here which is a good deal larger than anything else that is at stake: and Ruth Padel (and to a lesser extent Arvind Mehrotra) are in a position to do something about it, by withdrawing and revealing the election to now be an empty charade.
If it doesn't, we'll all be able to see their rhetoric for what it is: an empty charade.
Our democracy, alas, seems bought and paid for, an empty charade, even as our media and political class lecture the rest of the world about the holy grail of democracy.
"To do otherwise will be dishonest, to pretend the party has a purpose - when in fact it is a charade, an empty vessel".
But the charade persists.
