"All these concerns that you cite are just phony concerns," Ms. Long said.
Will Rush call up their grieving parents and tell them that they should stop crying, because they were just "phony soldiers?" Get the point here, Rush?
I have a whole new respect for actors and real celebrities -- you know, we're just phonies -- because it's not easy.
"We all know Fury is just a phony," he added in a ringside interview with Showtime.
His remarks about how President Obama's world view is just "some phony theology" have received a lot of attention but too little examination.
Talitha Stevenson in the New Statesman was sceptical about Adam Phillips's Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life – "Sometimes euphony is just plain phony".
Other arithmetic by which the budget is being "balanced" is just as phony.
And I was reminded that for certain roles, a touch of the phony is just what's needed to create an illusion of authenticity.
But the phony IRS is just part of the larger problem.
