Sentence examples for on the charade from inspiring English sources

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Though D'Angelo wrote one great couplet, on "The Charade," that has already been quoted too often — "All we wanted was a chance to talk, 'stead we only got outlined in chalk" — it is the timing of the release that will stand as the most political aspect of this album.

The idea, which was aimed at the company's clientele, did so well that some "customers" carried on the charade and tweeted about their Black Friday "delivery".

She said that they had decided to come out as the owners only after a local reporter called them on the charade.

"He doesn't want them to have the same car as him because, well, he loves his new car and it's HIS car!" "So rather than engage them further and being forced to maintain his ruse with more and more ridiculous responses — 'You should get a dune buggy instead' — he decides to  pull the ripcord on the charade by simply leaving," Mr. Ian says, adding, "He probably made it up to his kid later".

We carried on the charade for about two hours before I gave up and tried to go to sleep.

His new musical landscape is filled with unflinching details — "All we wanted was a chance to talk/Instead we only got outlined in chalk," he sings on "The Charade" — offered with nuance, with vivid, immediately memorable riffs.

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The rest of the world is catching on to the charade.

According to Page Six, Cooper's Sundance doppelgänger snuck into a party for the film "White Girl" at Bar 53 at Rock and Reilly's on Saturday only to be shown the door after security caught on to the charade.

As a recording of their No 17 hit Chime belted out, the two brothers – Paul and Phil Hartnoll – flanked by an energetic Top of the Pops dancer, steadfastly refused to carry on with the charade of miming.

But this came from on high," Joyner said of the charade with the I.V. "I took it as they didn't want any of the prisoners thinking we were in there killing folks".

"We decided that we couldn't go on with the charade," John Fox, the director of the Open Society Institute's Washington office, said today in a telephone interview from Vilnius, Lithuania.

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