Sentence examples for phoney discourse from inspiring English sources

They have presided over the emasculation of the politics of equality and fairness in favour of a phoney discourse on "equality of opportunity".

At a certain point, as if aware things are beginning to sound like a transcript of a graduate semiotics discussion circa 1990, McCarthy pushes the tone towards irony, even parody, inviting us to see U as a bit of a phoney, or at least as a study in the hollowness of a mode of discourse that has been all too thoroughly appropriated by the corporate world.

Call a phoney a phoney.

He is not phoney.

A phoney one.

It's so phoney.

This is phoney accountability.

'What a phoney!

This is the phoney crash.

The phoney war is over.

This row is phoney, obviously.