Sentence examples for trace of phony from inspiring English sources

But Catherine Cawood doesn't have a trace of phony empowerment: although she's not precisely an antihero, she is a "bloody mess," as she might put it, as damaged by her past as she is fuelled by it.

By now, they were not just second nature to him; they were first nature, cleansed of every trace of the phony, and the result — as his detractors repeatedly failed to grasp — was not an act.

"But there's lots of phony wine.

Washington is a grand opera of phony crises.

Most objectionable, perhaps, were the Deadheads, that travelling gang of phony vagabonds.

(This story was inspired by the recent discovery of phony Hitler diaries).

Beware of phony prices.

The bank, in effect, bought a lot of phony leases.

But like Proteus of Greek myth, the peddlers of phony stocks keep assuming new shapes.

Screenshot of phony sports picture.

The party of phony populism promotes plutocracy.