Sentence examples for pseudo from inspiring English sources

Puskas, a pseudo army officer with the Honved (army) club, as were most of the team but Hidegkuti, scored a memorable third, drawing the ball back with the sole of his left foot so that England's captain Billy Wright, in the elegant words of the Times correspondent Geoffrey Green, "rushed past him like a fire engine going to the wrong fire".

Phrenology, best described as a pseudo or even voodoo science "of the mind", had created its own prolific market for the body parts – especially heads – of Australian and other indigenous people since the late 18th century.

Another change in the past six years has been the rise of the current account as a "pseudo savings account".

Stevens reckons the fact that hunters (or, if the law is being observed, pseudo-hunters) are now more likely to be professional people who have moved to the Cotswolds than farmers who were born there has changed the nature of hunting.

The pop-cultural success of the irradiated pseudo-dinosaur Godzilla, and the impending release of the film Jurassic World next summer are confirmation that dinosaurs aren't just kids' stuff.

Combined with the pseudo-green motives of the political right, this invites a devastating future.

But the true hunters, too, know that this pseudo-hunting is second best.

Many critics accused Téchiné of overlooking the strangeness of mythomania and creating instead a pseudo-political polemic, which sought to attack the government and society for its demonisation of the kids from the banlieues.

They need them to scrutinise new laws and get concessions – not to tip up in 2020, five years late, with a pseudo-plan.

8) Stop thinking and speaking in the terms given by the deadly triumvirate: pseudo-intellectuals, neo-liberals and technofuturists.

Everything is fucked," said Anton Krasovsky, a former state television presenter who was chief of staff to oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov when he ran against Putin as a Kremlin-sanctioned pseudo-opposition candidate in 2012.