Sentence examples for something of a feint from inspiring English sources
This was itself something of a feint.
The creation of "Parks and Recreation" itself was something of a feint.
The motorcade had also been something of a feint, and Main Street something of a false trail.
The technical term for this is "literary genius" – in Salinger's case, a lightning strike of such force as to blacken anyone standing in the immediate vicinity – even, in the end, his readers, although Salinger's famous retreat from the raucous din of publishing to pursue the zen-like purity of writing for it's own sake turned out to be something of a feint.
As with the opening of any good ghost story, the pilot is something of a feint.
By March 6, when the Germans began to attack on the west bank of the Meuse as well as on the east bank, the French had come to see that something more than a feint was intended.
There may be a finer gloss on the Romney tax plan, and a bit more of a feint toward progressivity than the others have put in.
The third column, which included three companies of Serbians and a division of Hussars, executed a feint on the left bank of the river.
400 Imperial Guards had landed and taken Pulau Ubin, an island in the north-east of Singapore, in a feint attack on 7 February, where they encountered minimal resistance.
Mrs Gamp's faints are a feint of feminine sensitivity, a cynical means of social manipulation.
