How To Use Imposture In A Sentence
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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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He calls for the magicians, who more than once had been detected in imposture.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Oh,'tis imposture all: And as no chemic yet the elixir got,
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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A sketch of so many calamities does not seem but a massive record of impostures, and even from such a tender age the cruel lashings made me aware of my humble condition.
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No, instead the two of them went to Paris where they could try out the imposture on the De Chantals first.
DOUBLE DECEIT
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So when the air is heavy with imposture, and men live only to make money, and the service of God is become a thing of words and ceremonies, and the kingdom of heaven is bought and sold, and all that is high and pure in man is smothered by corruption -- fire of the same kind bursts out in higher natures with a fierceness which cannot be controlled; and, confident in truth and right, they call fearlessly on the seven thousand in Israel who have not bowed the knee to Baal to rise and stand by them.
Short Studies on Great Subjects
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But we do hate all impostures and lies; insomuch as we have severely forbidden it to all our fellows.
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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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But, come now, just admit the idea of imposture into that honest, unsuspicious mind of yours, and you'll find the whole thing wears a very doubtful appearance directly.
Put Yourself in His Place
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His imposture was an attempt to gain some self-esteem.
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But Soa knew well enough that this was but the beginning of the struggle, and that, though it might be comparatively easy for Juanna and Otter to enter the city, and impose themselves upon its superstition-haunted people as the incarnations of their fabled gods, the maintenance of the imposture was a very different matter.
The People of the Mist
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This new resource discovery algorithm can effectively restrain the imposture and pseudo service of P2P network, improve the reliability and security and decrease network load.
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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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I was going to say no, but then I remembered my foolish imposture and said yes and he gave me an envelope.
52449_CLARA
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He harks back to Adam Smith, who wrote that competition among faiths would make religion ‘free from every mixture of absurdity, imposture, or fanaticism.’
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No serious Catholic should lightly support a political party that promotes this sort of cynical imposture.
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This new resource discovery algorithm can effectively restrain the imposture and pseudo service of P2P network, improve the reliability and security and decrease network load.
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How can an otherwise sane individual become so enamored of a fantasy, an imposture, that even after it's exposed in the bright light of day he still clings to it - indeed, clings to it all the harder?
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I have always told you the consequence of attending to the minutiae, where art (or imposture, as the ill-mannered would call it) is designed -- your linen rumpled and soily, when you wait upon her -- easy terms these -- just come to town -- remember (as formerly) to loll, to throw out your legs, to stroke and grasp down your ruffles, as if of significance enough to be careless.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6
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That war is yet flagrant; nor can it cease but by the extincture of that imposture, which has been permitted by Providence to prolong the degeneracy of man.
Social Sense
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Who can say how many pseudostylic shamiana, how few or how many of the most venerated public impostures, how very many piously forged palimpsests slipped in the first place by this morbid process from his pelagiarist pen?
Finnegans Wake
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Yet even after he had sold his story to Life magazine, and exposed his strategies, he was unable to resist further impostures.
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It could not be at the fact that, for all your hollow proclamations of the auteur's commitment to the work alone, this imposture is actually an artifical bolstering of a self-esteem that's actually quite frail and flimsy.
How Not to be a Writer
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Sometimes the road to illusion is created by hoaxers, people who engage in deliberate acts of trickery with the aim of proving how gullible other people can be when a skillful imposture is presented.
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What I called an "imposture" for a critical edition was precisely the impression given of a single, clean, definitive text in large type.
'Romantic Originals': An Exchange
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This "imposture," in Rosen's opinion, has an intimate connection with bibliography, though he never explains how bibliography causes the editor to take down the 1850 Prelude from the shelf (an easy, objective choice, according to Rosen) instead of the 1805 model (an awkward, subjective motion).
'Romantic Originals': An Exchange
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With his own unconscious collusion, she had used him treacherously in an imposture which denied his separate identity and threatened to undo entirely the life work of individuation separation implied in identity formation.
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We do not accuse the authors of the imposture of relativism.
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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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Oh,'tis imposture all: And as no chemic yet the elixir got,
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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In 1871, Walter W Skeat published a complete and critical edition of Chatterton's poems, carefully dividing the poet's acknowledged work from his medieval impostures.
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Liege (or rather Tongres, for Liege was not then built) that she was spreading wide her tenets, unpersecuted and unrestrained, for she was too far removed from idolatry and imposture to be regarded.
Olla Podrida
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His life-sized but nonetheless obviously fake trees are colored to emphasize the imposture - jarring industrial green or gleaming silver and bronze, for instance.
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In my previous impostures in the English department, I had picked up some of the rudiments of Romanticism, but one idea that intrigued me was Edmund Burke's theory of the sublime.
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If the assumed "mediumship" of this woman was not an imposture, some of the many people who have visited her for the purpose of getting communications from their spirit-friends would have been gratified.
The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages
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I have always told you the consequence of attending to the minutiae, where art (or imposture, as the ill-mannered would call it) is designed — your linen rumpled and soily, when you wait upon her — easy terms these — just come to town — remember (as formerly) to loll, to throw out your legs, to stroke and grasp down your ruffles, as if of significance enough to be careless.
Clarissa Harlowe
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This article observes that imposture in Copyright Law is the infringement of the right of signature of authors.
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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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Have the Australian media ANY interest in this imposture…?
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If we read Polidori's figurative vampirism as something more than self-pity, his "imposture" is less postmodern playfulness than it is something far more sinister--the "glamour of imposture" as something poisonous to both the performer and the performed.
The Little Professor:
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I am sorry, sir," replied that gentleman, "that you should think it necessary to apply the word imposture to any 'proceeding of mine.
The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
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Thus the blurring of reality and fiction comes full circle: the impostor now gets to play himself in a film depicting his imposture and its consequences.
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When threatened with ‘a very painful experiment’ to uncover any secret, she confessed her imposture on December 7 and was charged as a ‘notorious and vile cheat’.