Sentence examples for fake somebody from inspiring English sources

Ripley says he'd rather be a fake somebody than a real nobody - but a fake nobody is all we're offered..

"Your Big Break" personifies Tom Ripley's motto, "Better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody," and on this show there are plenty of both.

And so the film came to hinge on a central premise - Ripley's credo that it is better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.

In the movie, Tom is less the casebook amoral psychopath of the novel and more a victim of class in his desire to be 'a fake somebody rather than a real nobody'.

And sometimes I say, 'God, it would be good to be a fake somebody rather than a real nobody.' " There is a suspicion that some of his beyond-the-pale conduct is designed to sell tickets, that at least some antics are merely con and guile.

Jordan, flapping his tongue, faking somebody out of the building.

"It's hard to construct a scenario that is at all plausible in which somebody fakes something like this.

It still feels too new, like I'm faking something or somebody.

The other morning stylists were primping models for a fashion shoot before a fake ancient colonnade, where somebody had parked a Renault.

To disclose the author's twist here would be worse than faking a sneeze during somebody's backswing.

"If you have 400,000 cards and not a single error, somebody has faked the results," said Robert Swartz, president of Cardamation, which has been making punch-card readers for 25 years.