Sentence examples for phony does from inspiring English sources

Swedish writer Fredrik Colting's 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye sees a 76-year-old "Mr C" flee a New York nursing home to wander the streets of New York, much as Holden Caulfield – who might have called his older incarnation a "goddam phony" – does in The Catcher in the Rye.

Because you have these stupid one-liners -- which I loathed -- and I always felt phony doing them".

Brosnan was not happy with some of the humour in the films, particularly the "stupid one-liners — which I loathed — and I always felt phony doing them".

As any journalist can attest, just because a place is shallow, corrupt and infested with phonies doesn't mean it's dull.

"Gaines evidently spent many nights hanging with the young, beautiful and clueless," Hiaasen said, but "just because a place is shallow, corrupt and infested with phonies doesn't mean it's dull".

Most phonies don't have any advertisements or Special features.

The pilot nails both the Darwinian grimness of Silicon Valley — where even a liquor-store clerk complains that his app hasn't been funded — and the way it gets packaged in phony do-gooder-ism.

Once again, he's got his own proposal that's fuzzy and phony and does not do anything".

Which brings us to Sheila MacRae, a brassy, stagy actress whose phony Alice does nearly as much damage to the show as its garish hues.

An entitled phony who does not care about the average hard-working American.

Rachel Maddow is a "phony who doesn't have the same passion for the truth off-camera that she seems to have on the air," and someone who Baldwin hears engineered his firing from the network.