Exempel på imposture

• The literal meaning of the term prestidigitator is 'nimble-fingered', but its connotations extend to the idea of illusion, imposture, deception.

• Whereas authentication concerns the construction of a true or veridical identity, denaturalization foregrounds untruth, pretense, and imposture in identity positioning.

• On the opposite end of this continuum, denaturalization expresses language through which speakers signal imposture or falsity through ruptures of ongoing or assumed identities.

• At times, it is difficult to discriminate between bold claims, conceptual misinterpretations, and imposture.

• Psalmanazar's imposture, in other words, proved to be magnificent training for writing a universal history.

• Must we really lend ourselves to this imposture?

• Without the acceptance of this principle democracy is merely an imposture.

• I am informed that prosecuting authorities do not institute proceedings except where they are satisfied that there is evidence of fraud and imposture.

• The thing is an imposture upon our credulity.

• Better a naked and unashamed steel roof, than the imposture which has been decided on.

• I can only say that it will be a very average child that does not detect the imposture in it.

• The whole of this shop legislation from start to finish has been more or less an imposture.

• The objection to this practice is that it is an imposture.

• Any measure is an imposture in the eyes of people who deliberately misrepresent its intentions and its scope.

• It is a policy of calculated imposture and organisd hypocrisy.