Sentence examples for false authorities from inspiring English sources

The painter Joshua Reynolds recalled that Goldsmith like to argue from "false authorities" and talk humorous nonsense.

It is necessary to repudiate superstition, zealous religion, and false authorities.

Muslims need to reassert themselves, end this cycle of ignorance, spark the conversation -- or it will not be long before our faith is redefined to us by those with false authorities.

"The City of Torrance must enact a consumer protection law to regulate the way products are promoted by the use of false authorities". A man who answered the phone at the institute's headquarters said the proposed ordinance is harassment.

But whereas other authors might shore themselves up with false authority, this writer makes his struggles transparent: he tells us who turned him down for an interview Pee-wee Hermann, for one) and spins comedy out of his failed attempts to get his subjects to be a bit more analytical.

Part of my problem is the false authority of it.

More vexing is a habit Bissell looks back on, by his mid-30s, with justified suspicion: "the assumption of false authority".

But like Greene (and like Robert Stone) he falls into easy formulas — the false authority of the quickly promoted phrase, the fake finish of the ready-made description, the obviously available dramatic solution.

Three months after Svetlana's arrival, she wrote to Kennan, "I feel sad, that again — as long ago in my native cruel Russia, I have to force myself to silence, force myself to false behavior, to hide my true thoughts, and to bend my head down before the fist of false authority.

When, this year, a group of fellow critics on Twitter spontaneously began to rate their favorite seasons of the best shows (i.e. "Buffy" 3, 2, 4, 5, 1, 6, 7), I signed off in a panic.* Part of my problem is the false authority of it.

We give celebrities false authority because of the way they look and because of how familiar they are to us".