We'll probably never know the reasons behind the charade we've just witnessed. |
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When it's presented in this way, most women can see chivalry for the silly charade it really is. |
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Unfortunately, I cannot say the same for the final executive meeting which was a charade of democracy. |
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The charade was kept up for a long time, far too long, but all that has changed now. |
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The amazing thing is that our reporters, our public and our government buys into their charade. |
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Willing to humor him though, just to see what he was up to, I continued the charade. |
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Or would he have continued this charade and pretended he was going to medical school? |
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Will you drop this charade or am I going to have to shave you bald and put you out in the cold? |
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One result of this shilly-shallying is that much of the talk about liberty becomes a self-serving charade. |
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Nero Wolfe is going to put on a charade, and let us hope he doesn't break a leg. |
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I'm dying to scream the truth out to everyone from the roof tops, yet I know I'll play along with this ridiculous charade. |
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So they went farther and farther until they couldn't keep the charade going any more. |
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I was finding it increasingly difficult to keep up my charade with Peter, and every kiss was tainted with my dishonesty. |
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We discontinued our love charade, even with Rod present, and never gave more than a stiff and polite nod of greeting to one another. |
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This charade of an interview was nothing more than a commercial for appeasement. |
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But she was not taken in by his charade and finally tricked him and galloped off with his mount and money alike. |
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It was an elaborate charade which, through the performance of ritual, disguised the imposition of the royal will. |
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Yes, I think there comes a point where putting a brave face on things becomes a shameful charade. |
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Maybe it's time we dropped the charade and accepted that we're as brash and pushy as any New York cabbie ever was. |
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But all the pomp and ceremony could not hide the empty character of this charade. |
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But then the charade falls down, and I tell Bryan the whole story, my voice rising in pitch as I get more and more upset. |
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Cyril confesses to never taking to parliament as an institution and described it as a charade and a farce. |
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The peace-seeking pretense was dripping with charade in the months before the invasion. |
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This budget is a pure charade with more hidden taxes than the publicised ones. |
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In place of a serious investigation, the FBI has mounted an elaborate charade. |
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But fortunately, as part of my ongoing charade of being a writer, I have a pad and pen with me. |
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A glance at the list of candidates shows that the whole thing is a charade. |
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Finally, she reached a point where she could no longer continue the charade. |
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The irony is that Boileau's mock-heroic method, as he applied it in his Lutrin of 1674-83, had already been tested in a charade from 1664, the Petite Commande. |
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In fact, the whole offer for sale could be seen as a cynical, if necessary, charade. |
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The only question is whether we will end the charade on our own terms or continue to play the fool. |
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This whole exercise has been political football and now the is government trying to save face by continuing this charade. |
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After the charade and the pictures of him with his head stuck through a life preserver on the New York shore nothing happened. |
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Will the Prime Minister stop this sickening charade and fire that Minister of National Defence? |
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There comes a time when we have to stop routinely nodding things through like clockwork monkeys in a tired charade of parliamentary scrutiny. |
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We cannot continue this charade and we cannot have a policy of rhetoric about denuclearisation – there have to be real steps. |
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In reality it was more a carefully scripted charade than any serious conflict of ideology. |
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Parliament was prorogued and, according to many observers, it was just a charade. |
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If I were more cynical, I might wonder whether this whole charade was a public relations exercise to win an election. |
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I suppose the idea is that everything will go on until the sun grows cold or some cosmic disaster ends the charade. |
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Then the Prime Minister attempts to pass this charade off with a so-called free vote. |
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Mr President, it would seem that even the majority of your own MEPs are indifferent to this charade of a democratic debate. |
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This is a charade, and yet some stand and say they have not broken a promise. |
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I ask and plead with the NDP and the Bloc members as well as those senators to stop the charade. |
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The new songs were linked by a thread in the form of the four-part charade that gave the album its name. |
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It is just a charade, playing games and trying to hoist, which is what members opposite have done, a good initiative. |
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The annual charade whereby the Auditors decline to sign off most of the expenditure gives rise to very adverse publicity in the Member States. |
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To be quite honest, I think the government likes to play a charade on people. |
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This process is a complete charade and must be acknowledged as such by the international community. |
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However, beneath the ballyhoo of this expensive charade, a lot is changing. |
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If the Democrats maintain this charade, 2016 will not be the cakewalk they dream it to be. |
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Thus, their reality testing appears intact, and the rebellious behavior or attitude shows itself to be the charade of mock independence that it is. |
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He pulls back the curtain to reveal a magnificent charade in which everyone is wittingly or unwittingly complicit in the world's most extended re-enactment. |
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This obvious political charade does not engender strong passion. |
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What if we had abandoned the charade, and revealed ourselves to our unwary allies? |
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Some people remain surprised that in this modern age we should still be ruled over by any sort of royalty, as the whole bejewelled charade smacks of musty old deference. |
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The President too was pressed into the service of this noisome charade. |
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While the above has been one stream of outpouring in the country's press, the other has been to hammer away at what many columnists saw as a confession-and-pardon charade. |
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The first meeting of the county committee last Thursday was a charade. |
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This charade was the basis for the second Opium War, when, in 1856, a Chinese craft flying the British flag was seized for involvement in piracy and smuggling. |
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We have to rely on the experience of those negotiating to return Elian Gonzalez to his father in judging that there was greater risk in protracting the charade than in taking action. |
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Private, wholesome family time could no longer charade as being either private or wholly wholesome. |
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An overlapping charade that redivides into three or more words can have a constant overlap or a variable overlap. |
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But Judy rips up the letter and continues the charade, because she loves Scottie. |
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In hindsight this was only a legalistic charade which had little chance of holding up in a court of law. |
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It was an artificial charade, cynically created to suggest to the viewer unrehearsed extemporisation, just as these revolting talk-shows do. |
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I think it was the most bizare parliamentary charade I've seen in a long time that Parliament was recalled in 1986 for emergency reasons to bring in detention. |
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Without it, democracy is a word devoid of meaning, a cover-up, a charade. |
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It is time to quit the charade and quit wasting Canadian tax dollars. |
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I guess to that extent, this committee meeting is somewhat of a charade, because it seems to me the government members, and I think all of you, are pretty much looking beyond that. |
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Tens of thousands of dollars were spent on this little charade. |
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It is sometimes felt by opposition members and other members in the House that these debates are just an illusion and a charade and that the decision has already been made. |
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But to others, it looked like a top-down charade of participation, in which all power lay with the president. Behind the propaganda, the Bolivarian revolution was a corrupt, mismanaged affair. |
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We are not joining in this charade either. |
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What I mean is that both sides found time to put on a charade. |
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Democrats, do the American thing and have nothing to do with this charade. |
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If this is all a hoax, Detweiler is a master of the charade. |
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In those situations it is best to inculcate human rights practices in the conscience of people rather than to play the charade of the Commission and Court proceedings. |
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We cannot play along with this sort of charade, Mr. Chairman. |
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The charade was only useful in order to gain more time and resources for the project but not to create interchangeable parts. |
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There is also a charade song for people to get, a trivia question, Dingbat brainteaser and a joke. |
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When those funding the spectacle of Europe's glorious charade vote disbelievingly with their funds and in the ballot box, then it may actually be unravelling. |
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