Sentence examples for fraudulent idea of from inspiring English sources

Fincher described the narrator's immersion, "It was just the idea of living in this fraudulent idea of happiness".

For in the world of political advocacy and its marketplace of ideas, there is no such thing as a "fraudulent" idea: there may be useless proposals, totally unworkable schemes, as well as very sound proposals that will receive the imprimatur of the "marketplace of ideas" through our majoritarian system of election and representative government.

In stark contrast to Smith's theories, the Street's history is nothing but one of fraud for the simple reason that the entire enterprise is built on a deeply fraudulent idea: that the future can be predicted.

And yet nothing could be more fraudulent than the idea of a homogeneous oeuvre with a single name attached to it.

In fact, the idea of fraudulent cases overwhelming the legal system is fiction.

In fact it seems to me that your whole argument hinges more upon the idea of 'pretence' - that most fraudulent of crimes.

The later stories are occupied by the idea of "notions", with the sense that people are not made foolish by their desires so much as fraudulent.

Though they have resisted the idea of becoming Internet censors, Twitter and Facebook have adopted policies aimed at preventing disinformation from spreading widely and stepped up their efforts to stamp out fraudulent accounts.

You know, yesterday, as I read The New Republic's attempt to tell me that it was up to me and President Obama to save newspapers through a sustained campaign of refusing to call them out for their failings, thus propping up their reputations, I overlooked a very vital and ongoing story that could help to expose this fraudulent set of ideas.

— Jenna Wortham Mega-Man ARSTECHNICA.COM | The fast, fabulous, and fraudulent life of Kim Dotcom.

Apologies for the shamefully fraudulent nature of this approach.