Sentence examples for kind of phony from inspiring English sources

He thought of them as kind of phony people, very vain, who just wanted to look their best even when they were supposed to look their worst.

Vincent Scully wrote in Life, in 1965, that "Disney caters to the kind of phony reality that we all too readily accept in place of the true.

No one wants athletes to put on some kind of phony, trash-talking machismo — this kind of emotional honesty might actually be refreshing.

Yet the Gilmore execution demonstrates the way in which state execution can sometimes confer on a man a kind of phony glory.

But the feel of the album, "Born to Sing: No Plan B," is easy-breezy, replete with Mr. Morrison's own saxophone solos, and terse arrangements that reflect his self-conscious wariness of "some kind of phony, pseudo-jazz".

Around the Web: Mr. Santorum's insistence that Mr. Obama has some kind of "phony theology" echoes a theme of his campaign, which asserts that Democrats and Obama have a secular worldview that they intend to impose on Christians and nonbelievers alike, according to The Washington Post.

Whole Foods was, in Pollan's account, kind of a phony.

"I think that's kind of a phony argument, frankly," said McGovern.

He was the kind of a phony that have to give themselves room when they answer somebody's question.

I get to play generative games with that kind of fantastically phony fairy, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

He added of certain "Bachelor/Bachelorette" contestants, "I find a lot of people can just kind of be fake and phony because they're going to be on TV and they think that's what looks good on TV and that's what people want.