Sentence examples for sort of sham from inspiring English sources

Lawrence's life after the war was, to put it very simply, a persistent flight from himself and the persona he had created – this "Lawrence of Arabia" that he saw as the worst sort of sham, his personal Frankenstein's monster.

We were about to write it off as some sort of sham or fluke, when we ran the test a second time.

I sort of agree.

They do not deserve to be subjected to the same sort of secret sham trials which condemned their husbands or fathers to death back in Tripoli".

To medicate nearly every horse who races in America with bute and Lasix is not the practice of veterinary medicine, but rather some sort of medication sham.

Rob: So what you're saying is that for the last 30 years, whistleblower protection laws have been sort of a sham, and whistleblowers need the opportunity to appear before a jury.

Of course it's only because of the goddamn Renaissance and I think we're all more or less agreed now that that was just about the crassest sort of billboard sham, cant, and vulgarity conceivable.

Some sort of scam?

To investigate these further, cell populations were sorted from the lungs of sham- and CS-exposed (4 days) BALB/c mice including macrophages, neutrophils, NK/NKT cells and CD4+ T-cells.

And the plot of romantic agony involves a peculiarly sad affair, in which the fraudster's great love arises from a work relationship a sham of the sort of working romances that arise in films by Howard Hawks, Raoul Walsh, and, yes, Wes Anderson.

Swindling the elderly is exactly the sort of thing one would expect a sham fortuneteller to do, but the guy is only 32.