Sentence examples for false friendship from inspiring English sources

The false friendship under communism humiliated us rather than united us.

In Albany, Mr. Hussain, the same informant who later worked in Newburgh, spun out a fake money laundering plan that included a demonstration of a shoulder-fired missile, along with gifts and false friendship.

This was the situation Wright set out to dramatise in Island of Hallucination, representing in fictional form the web of false friendship, deception, corruption and betrayal that increasingly threatened to ensnare him, or so he believed.

For the good of the sport, it seems Jones and Evans now realise true champions have no time for false friendship.

On 15 January, Tobias Smollett published a disparaging twenty-eight-page pamphlet entitled A Faithful Narrative of the base and inhuman Arts that were lately practised upon the Brain of Habbakuk Hilding, Justice, Dealer and Chapman, who now lies at his own House in Covent-Garden, in a deplorable State of Lunacy; a dreadful Monument of false Friendship and Delusion.

And so false friendships, essential to the workings of any city, can flourish.

I also apologise unreservedly for forming false friendships with law abiding citizens and in particular forming a long-term relationship with [Belinda Harvey] who had every reason to think I was a committed animal rights activist and a genuine London Greenpeace campaigner.

"I also apologise unreservedly for forming false friendships with law abiding citizens and in particular forming a long-term relationship with [the woman] who had every reason to think I was a committed animal rights activist and a genuine London Greenpeace campaigner".

Constant communication can create a false sense of friendship and also undermine the development of coping skills: the ability to tell the difference between normal states of sadness or anxiety that pass and a true state of emergency.

The men's verbal boasting quickly descends into physical tussling, while the women watch each other's behaviour obsessively and comment upon each other's appearance in a false display of friendship.

Perry decided to speak out: he was sorry, but it was not for him — Heaven, Hell, saints, divine mercy — and if Willie-Jay's affection was founded on the prospect of Perry's someday joining him at the foot of the Cross, then he was deceived and their friendship false, a counterfeit, like the portrait.