Sentence examples for successful hoax from inspiring English sources

Alas, what began as an elaborate and successful hoax resulted in terrible anguish.

Because there was such a hunger to learn the ways of the Venetian painters, West — and eventually his colleagues — provided an essential ingredient to any successful hoax: they wanted to believe in it.

Palmer's most successful hoax was the "Shaver Mystery", a series of stories in which the author, Richard Shaver, explained all the wrecks and accidents on Earth as the result of interference by ancient machinery hidden underground.

Piltdown man, whose fossils were sufficiently convincing to generate a scholarly controversy lasting more than 40 years, was one of the most successful hoaxes in the history of science.

From Dionysius the Renegade to Jeremy "Terminator" LeRoy, the successful hoaxer must concoct the right combination of elements to make the work believable.

Since then she says she's been working on many more surreal and absurd "illusions"—her word for successful media hoaxes.

In 1977 the Guardian staged perhaps the most successful April Fools' Day hoax in newspaper history.

Therefore, one "exceptional" Negro watches another "exceptional" Negro in order to find out if he knows how vastly successful and bitterly funny the hoax has been.

The system of checks has been successful in keeping the number of hoaxes relatively low.

Santa Fe is a kind of hoax, one that has been so successful, economically, architecturally and culturally, that the reality of its success has overwhelmed the pretense of its origins.

All, however, were hoaxes, the work of Tommaso De Benedetti, one of the world's most creative and successful fake tweeters.