Sentence examples for phony it from inspiring English sources

Well, the closer you get to it, the less phony it is.

His "rock star showboating" feels phony; it grates on her nerves.

If wrestling was phony, it provided plenty of opportunity for unscripted mayhem — a real world beyond the theatrics that seemed as compelling as the drama in the ring.

If Collins is just acting, if he is an Irvin-like phony, it is one of the best con jobs in the history of con jobs.

"There are already so many layers of disguise in this piece that if you start acting really phony, it's like, 'What are we even watching?' " Mr. Morris said.

The sexual thing between him and Connie is funny, quite twisted and yet homely, not phony: it's made up of shaming things, like his memory of her using the chamber pot, or her pushing him in a pram.

He will even become more tolerant of phonies — it is part of the mechanics of living — as he has already had to endure the agony of saying "Glad to've met you" to people he isn't glad to have met.

It's not that these people are phonies, it's that you're not seeing the whole truth.

"It's all fake news, it's phony stuff, it didn't happen," Trump said, referencing recent reports from CNN and BuzzFeed about the allegations in the Russian dossier.

Mr. Foster, 29, who recently moved to New York City from Los Angeles to live near Mr. Moverman, said of the three men's chemistry, "It sounds phony, but it really was like a steamy, sexless, three-way love affair".

"It's like fake; it's phony," said Heffelfinger, 43, who later bought a $30 T-shirt from the Ismails.