Sentence examples for phony dream from inspiring English sources

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Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?," it's a searing moment — and Garfield, as Biff, makes the heartbreak sing.

Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?," it's a searing moment and Garfield, as Biff, makes the heartbreak sing.

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They know I'm not a phony, I'm not selling them a dream".

On the eve of his visit to London this week, he hit a characteristically phony note when he told an interviewer, "I never dreamt when I was living in Midland, Texas, that I would be staying in Buckingham Palace".

That clichéd dream is perfectly reflected in Carolyn See's Golden Days, which also follows a tradition of California phonies like Aimee Semple McPherson: it features a lunatic with followers and then nuclear apocalypse.

Mansfield sometimes lets these tags grow into lines of phony-poetic bombast, always placed at the end of a chapter, such as: "So we play at some dream and dance at the edge of the dark woods".

What a phony.

Phony people are bad.

She's phony.

Pony looks phony.

Was Paterno a phony?

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