Sentence examples for false title from inspiring English sources

We try to avoid the unnatural journalistic mannerism of the "false title" — that is, using a description or job designation with someone's name as if it were a formal title.

It was green-lit under a false title, and fans didn't even know it was being made until the first trailer hit in January.

While filming in Chicago, the film was given the false title Rory's First Kiss to lower the visibility of production, but the local media eventually uncovered the ruse.

Two examples of "false titles".

From the stylebook: false titles.

false titles We insert "the" in the descriptions preceding the athletes' names.

To get permission from Catholic officials to film inside churches, members of the film crew resorted to some subterfuge, giving false titles for the movie.

Mr. Edmar was arrested in July and accused of heading a ring that schemed to get false titles to public land, sold plots and laundered the profits through foreign exchange dealers.

Moreover, he places Priscilla in the social context of the 1930s and 1940s: from the devil-may-care years before the second world war through the tense years of the German occupation.Rigid social conventions at the time spawned a convenient hypocrisy, from the false titles adopted by couples "living in sin" in England to the flourishing brothels and sex-clubs of Paris.

"To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace," wrote the Roman historian Tacitus.

And here's the classic false-title problem that we want to avoid — this time applied to a thing instead of a person.