Sentence examples for shamming from inspiring English sources

However campaigners from Our Grade, Our Choice say the rules "promote a culture of grade shamming" at the university and unfairly treat students with mental health issues.

Lobo Antunes pities their "heroic cramps," and fancies that they might be shamming immobility; his revenge is to move them around like figures on a chessboard, asserting the right of the present to rearrange the past.

Behind closed eyelids, shamming sleep on the train, Kent Jeffries thought about Liz, his dear sweet mother.

Sometimes he believed that she was shamming, making too much of it, and at other times he was full of real grief that he had made her suffer.

The cliché that "Training Day" subverted is restored, as both cops and robbers seem mostly to be shamming their badness while waiting for a little tenderness.

But this appearance fades, Ryle explains, when we realize that pretence is a notion partly constitutive of notions such as cheating, acting a part, make-believe, shamming being ill, and hypochondria.

The recent indictment of Wegelin, a Swiss private bank being sued for helping Americans to evade tax, is peppered with references to "sham" companies and foundations, set up in places like Panama and Liechtenstein to conceal the identities of the bank's clients.

Any elections, even sham ones, offer a figleaf of respectability that can be worn at international gatherings such as those of the African Union.

It's a sham.

The Ukrainian government and western powers have rejected the referendum as a sham.

But if Syriza is unable to succeed in rolling back some of the spending cuts imposed by the EU, it will not only make a sham of the recent democratic election held there... but it could also bring increased support for the Greek neo-Nazi party, Golden Dawn, which took third place in that election.