Sentence examples for great sham from inspiring English sources

She thought Walt Whitman "a second-rate poseur, tho' we forgive him much for 'My Captain' or 'Lilacs.' " Mark Twain was, in her view, "a vulgarian," and Thomas Mann "a great sham".

Of course, the amateurishness of the Olympics – or the Five Fat Zeroes, as I think of them – has long since been cooked-up with steroids and shot into biceps bulging with corporate sponsorship, so the participants in the great sham of Beijing will be quite as tedious as any pros.

You expect side-to-side stuff, players standing around picking spots and scratching backsides, not giving 10% never mind 110; the greatest sham on turf.

Ten years on, instead of declaring victory, as well they might, disenchanted NGOs like Christian Aid are coming to regard CSR as the greater sham, and are calling on governments to resume their duties.

The sham response is negatively associated with refractoriness and positively associated with rTMS add-on studies; whereas sham method utilized, age and gender are not associated with a greater sham response.

Still, at least the charade has alerted a few people to the great Olympic sham, in which very little is at it seems and even less is as it was promised.

Absolute (+48%) and relative (+38%) EDL Po was significantly greater in Sham-PG873637 compared Sham-vehicle animals.

To determine whether foot reflexology, a complementary therapy, has an effect greater than sham reflexology on induction of ovulation.

We conducted a parallel-design, double-masked, sham-controlled study to address whether 2 weeks of daily TMS over the left prefrontal cortex has antidepressant activity greater than sham.

The proportion of [Thr855]-phosphorylated MYPT in unstimulated vessels was greater in sham than in CLP mice (n = 6 to 7; p < 0.05), indicating that MLCP was more active in CLP mice favouring vasorelaxation (Figure 2). Figure 2 Sepsis was associated with increased activation state of MLCP.

The number of CNS infiltrating inflammatory cells was 4 5 times greater in sham treated EAE mice compared to EPO treated animals when animals were studied either at their peak clinical neurologic deficit or at later stages of EAE (day 45).