| To be sure, force may no longer take the form of plunder and extortion, and fraud may no longer appear as deliberate imposture and chicanery. |
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| Before I could tell her about the inadvertent imposture that had occurred, she walked off the show in a huge huff with both signatures in hand. |
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| She should have been able to see through this outrageous imposture, but she needed this man to be her long-lost son. |
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| What the monologue thus conceives is an experience under negation, never fully bound in the present, another mode of imposture. |
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| A peace which took on the appearance of war would be no more than an imitation of war, a disguised form of it, a kind of imposture. |
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| A study of imposture cannot do its job if it ends merely when the curtains come down. |
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| We do not accuse the authors of the imposture of relativism. |
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| It was observed from the floor that some translators might not want this, feeling it to be an imposture. |
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| Even after the imposture was revealed, however, Taliban leaders remained positive that that their trick could still work. |
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| He is generous and tolerant of the young and aspiring, but a merciless adversary when he detects a dominating, powerful academic figure in pomposity or imposture. |
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| Unlike Pope Joan, he avoided placing himself in predicaments that would inevitably result in the exposure, and thereby the failure and discontinuance, of the imposture on which he had embarked. |
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| Inaccuracy apart, the accusation of indifference comes ill from those who will condone almost any imposture directed at almost any victim, provided another pair of hands gets stained the color of their own. |
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| However if you discover that within your heart there has germinated greed, bad will, materiality and lust, you can be certain that your light has turned into darkness and imposture. |
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| Similarly in Cambridge it was maintained in 1603 that judicial astrology was a mere imposture. |
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| Every yarn she tells is a ripping one, since either the imposture itself is a roller-coaster of adventures, or the impostor himself has wild inventions to promote. |
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| He performed throughout his long life one imposture after another, and once he had achieved a solid imposturous creation, he quit and left it alone. |
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| With the imposture exposed, it was discovered that the necklace that the cardinal had supposed to be in the queen's possession had been broken up and sold in London. |
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| A man tried and known for his strict honesty, incapable of any imposture. |
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| He's as aroused by underhandedly forcing Lady Chung to confront her own hidden carnal nature as he is by constructing the meticulous imposture to take advantage of her. |
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