Sentence examples for falseness from inspiring English sources

"It's absolute discretion, because obviously he protects his image," the female voice tells the reporter.Speaking on air to MVS News, Mr Gutiérrez described the report as "false as all falseness" and said there were no hostesses on the PRI payroll.

Nana (1880) follows the life of Gervaise's daughter as her economic circumstances and hereditary penchants lead her to a career as an actress, then a courtesan, professions underscored by a theatrical metaphor that extends throughout the novel, revealing the ceremonial falseness of the Second Empire.

The Slánský trial was marked by strongly anti-Semitic overtones (most of the condemned were Jews), and the falseness of the charges proved an embarrassment to the party leadership in later years.

A mixed metaphor is the linking of two or more disparate elements, which often results in an unintentionally comic effect produced by the writer's insensitivity to the literal meaning of words or by the falseness of the comparison.

And yet while we can readily acknowledge all this, we know within our heart of hearts that it is all a painted masquerade, and that it is precisely this utter falseness of his sad, trumped-up human presence that Goya is also recording.

Whereupon ʿUmar revealed the falseness of their position and said that an enemy of either angel was immediately an enemy of God.

But it's a falseness — and that's an authenticity problem — that everybody he knows is not as perfect as him because we're all for amnesty".

A first-person narrative by a writer named Jonathan Ames — a "periodic alcoholic" who has just stopped drinking again — the story is about Jonathan's attempt to scoop himself out of his lethargy and find a sense of purpose, even if it's one that's built on falseness.

Now, in a moment when many Americans are reëxamining their country's history, the falseness — the dissonance — of that heritage is becoming harder to ignore.

I think a harsh truth can be compassionate, in the sense that it speeds us along from falseness to truth.

He spends all his time fighting falseness of life, & is the angriest of all the old men.