Sentence examples for pure masquerade from inspiring English sources
Suspended eight years for what?" Platini, who worked at Fifa from 1998 to 2002 and has been Uefa president since 2007, said the decision was a "pure masquerade".
Platini, who also denied wrongdoing despite admitting there was only ever an oral contract over the payment, condemned the proceedings as a "pure masquerade... rigged to tarnish my name by bodies I know well".
Can Botox-shaming sometimes be pure bitchiness masquerading as the moral high ground?
Second, this is pure grandstanding masquerading as a response to outrage and will do little to affect the daily lives of children or adults.
Say what you will about the Galaxy Round (I still think it's pure gimmickry masquerading as a game-changer), but it's going to slide in and out of a pocket with ease.
John J. O'Connor, writing in The Times, criticized it as "pure fiction cleverly masquerading as reality".
And, for a dramatist who always masqueraded as a pure entertainer, Coward doesn't half peddle his opinions.
The contest – also referred to as the masquerade or parade – is where cosplay takes on its purest form as entrants perform small "skits", or at least answer questions posed by the long-suffering MC, in character.
BY DESIGN Philippe Starck's product design often entered the realm of pure silliness, perhaps epitomized by the goblet-shaped toddler sippy cup in plastic masquerading as crystal that Starck designed for Target back in 2002.
According to Ibn Taymiyya, the Muslim world of his own time was overrun with charlatan magicians, antinomian hashish addicts masquerading as Sufis, corrupt scholars, and ignorant masses, having strayed hopelessly from the pure and pristine Islam of still earlier generations.
