"Élites come up with phony ideologies and phony ideas to rob you of your freedom".
"There's this kind of, I think, phony idea that things are objective — when you push the button, that's the objective reality, and I just don't think that's true," Duke told me, not long ago, on our early evening walk along the bluffs.
State regulators have monitored insurance companies for most of our history without any real trouble, and systemic risk oversight falls somewhere between a phony idea and something we've been doing for more than a century.
INDIANAPOLIS — After the most trying week of his presidential bid, Senator Barack Obama sought to reframe and reinvigorate his candidacy on Saturday by asking Democrats to disregard "phony ideas, calculated to win elections instead of actually solving problems" and to seize an opportunity to change Washington.
"And this is what passes for leadership in Washington -- phony ideas, calculated to win elections instead of actually solving problems". Clinton gave no quarter, even taking on a protester who criticized her proposal at a stop in Gastonia, N.C.
Never mind that I stand out as a phony among phonies, looking less like anyone's idea of a reporter than all the faux scribes from Central Casting surrounding me.
"He hates the idea of being phony," she says to Samuels, "and he's impetuous, and he has very strong views". Never mind that Caulfield is one of the most overused literary references for every brooding, self-involved young man.
Ms. Grills, who worked at the Drew home, said she hatched the idea of creating a phony MySpace account, under the name Josh Evans, to communicate with Megan.
"Our company does $70 million a year in business," Ms. Kolsun said, "so that gives you some idea of the problem". Just last weekend, 5,600 phony Kate Spade purses were confiscated in Chinatown, one of the city's points of distribution.
Here the very idea of the integrity of the particular -- even of inspired phonies like Congo the Jungle Creep -- has drained away.
