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.
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.
It effectively masquerades, for almost half its running time, as a rueful, fast-moving comedy of middle-aged resignation and rebellion.
Also it forces me to masquerade for my own protection, suffering public humiliation.
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.
Karzai and many of his cabinet members are Pashtuns, but the majority of Pashtuns in the south and east of the country see Karzai as a masquerade for the warlords of the Northern Alliance, who co-operated with the US-led forces in ousting the Taliban from power in 2001.
Because special resemblance of animals to natural objects is termed masquerade, we propose a hypothesis of "imperfect masquerade" for the above phenomena.
Having been outed by the Sunday Mirror for masquerading as Jim, the industrial washing machine salesman of the year, who was allegedly happy to hand over £150 to sex workers to buy cocaine, Vaz reluctantly stepped down from his role as chair of the home affairs select committee.
But since the local-food movement looks suspiciously like old-fashioned protectionism masquerading as concern for the environment, helping poor countries is presumably not the point.Appetite for changeThe aims of much of the ethical-food movement to protect the environment, to encourage development and to redress the distortions in global trade are admirable.
In the mind of the Afrikaner, with its Biblical justifications for oppression masquerading as separateness, the black majority was good only to be "hewers of wood and drawers of water" — if that.
