Sentences with phrase «elaborate charade»

Barbera played elaborate charades to maintain Metro's bigger - than - we - really - are facade.

The Nationalists have a kangaroo kingdom of their own devising, while the «real» government is a sort of elaborate charade without power or punch.

Said a Faso flack in a prepared release last week, «Before he even takes the oath of office (for a fourth term as executive), Hein is orchestrating an elaborate charade attempting to create an impression that he is being drafted as a candidate.

For the rest of us parents who can't maintain an elaborate charade like that, Talwar says the key is to create an environment that fosters truth - telling.

Cooper is masterful at playing clammy concealment; Brosnan marvelously channels James Mason as the cynical man of the world for whom life has become an elaborate charade.

When she's confronted about the «old» song, she defends herself so matter - of - factly that we're sucked right back into her elaborate charade.

The role is to cover up inaction and to engage in an elaborate charade designed to persuade Australians that, in the face of all of the evidence to the contrary, the Government is sincere in its expressions of concern about climate change.

He has challenged the science, stomped on cabinet members who nervously suggest that maybe we should try to reduce our emissions, and engaged in an elaborate charade of concern by putting up meaningless policies that have no effect.

Well, a carton of fags wouldn't have gone astray either, but he maintained an elaborate charade of having given up smoking, while furtively puffing down the side of the house.