Sentence examples for mere hypocrisy from inspiring English sources
Pious words about encouraging diversity are mere hypocrisy.
If Congress doesn't act, yesterday's expressions of concern are mere hypocrisy.
history of the term "gentleman" …beginning to the end, the Victorian age numbered a galaxy of dissenters and critics who scorned the conformity, called the religion a sham, and viewed respectability as mere hypocrisy.
This kind of characterization is the essence of the classic nineteenth-century novel — sometimes as mere hypocrisy; sometimes as the subtleties of inner scruples — but its sense of pervasive ambivalence is very hard to dramatize, and part of the wisdom of popular drama is to simplify it.
Adds the Host: The issue is not mere "hypocrisy," which all sides indulge in.
This is simple hypocrisy.
He writes, "If the ideology of American evangelicals a libertarian ethos combined with a restrictive public moralism seems conflicted, that is because it is conflicted, a point not lost on critics of evangelical politics".2 Lynerd carefully shows how this tension within republican theology is not mere straightforward hypocrisy, but he does not claim it is un-problematically consistent.
Harvard, according to the article, was magnanimously "planning" to spend the grand sum of "$300,000 to $375,000 a year to recruit more low-income students and provide more financial aid to these students". This puny effort was mere PR hypocrisy, nothing that would significantly change things.
Your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings — with all your religious parade and solemnity— are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety and hypocrisy, a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.
