Sentence examples for masquerade for from inspiring English sources

/ Is it a cocktail, this feeling of joy? / Or is what I feel the real McCoy?" — but Porter's talent for masquerade, for turning life's griefs and glories into an impudent game, didn't end there.

There's some fine old material here: fragments, kept under glass, of 12th-century weaving by pre-Dogon Tellem people who used caves, some near the cliff where I'd seen the masquerade, for burials.

Going to church for the first time and seeing a man come out to the altar wearing a dress and a necklace clinched it for me that the whole thing was one big masquerade for strange people!

Masquerade for the Arts THURSDAY -- The National Arts Club, which supports the arts and is located at 15 Gramercy Park South, will hold a Venetian masquerade ball to raise money for its facade restoration project.

/ Is it a cocktail, this feeling of joy? / Or is what I feel the real McCoy?"—but Porter's talent for masquerade, for turning life's griefs and glories into an impudent game, didn't end there.

Once we've pulled the wool over their eyes - which is what Sunny's position amounts to even if that's not his intention - and persuaded these tricky Muslim customers that the Britishness debate is not a masquerade for talking about getting them integrated, what does Sunny want us to do?

It effectively masquerades, for almost half its running time, as a rueful, fast-moving comedy of middle-aged resignation and rebellion.

City are going to provide him with the real Ronaldinho, or at least the one masquerading for the past three years as the former world player of the year.

C.T., Brooklyn In case you hadn't noticed, there's a wee difference between letting an awkward moment pass and masquerading for several months as someone you're not.

More recently, crafts in Britain, as in the United States, have been masquerading for art lovers under labels like functional sculpture, painterly vessels, studio art, contemporary decorative arts and others that museums and galleries use to avoid the C word.

CLOSER John Smoltz PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES Larry Bowa, third season -- 2002 80-811, third place After masquerading for years as a small-market team, the large-market Phillies splurged this winter in anticipation of increased revenue from the last year of their old stadium and the first year of the new one.