0 behaviour that is intended to prevent the truth about something unpleasant or not wanted from becoming known: --
1 a party or dance where people wear masks (= coverings over part or all of the face) or other disguises (= clothes that hide who you are or make you look like someone else): --
2 a party or dance in which people wear masks (= coverings for the face): --
3 to pretend or appear to be: --
In this business, there are a lot of unqualified people masquerading as experts.
Could it perhaps be an office brochure masquerading as a monograph?
One possibility is that empathy is not a single topic; it is simply an umbrella term masquerading as a discrete topic.
Humans masquerading as personified animals or birds figured prominently in this new circus work performing across species, along with some strikingly innovative technology.
Others see law's ability to construct authority out of thin air as a trait to be admired rather than a dangerous masquerade.
Social categories that masquerade as aesthetic facts simply reinscribe essentialist notions of music that precede analysis.
It might be alleged that these figures were modern whigs masquerading behind the name ' old whig ' but such a view seems unconvincing for three reasons.
It may well be that subtle differences in the social worlds of identical twins in comparison to fraternal twins are still masquerading as genetic influence.
However, when a piece of theoretical work is dismissed as 'highly personal', it seems that an essentially conceptual problem masquerades as a mere terminological dispute.