How To Use Masquerade In A Sentence

Whatever you think of Strandlof and the months he masqueraded as a brain-injured veteran, the simple truth two months after his web of lies came apart is that public disgrace seems to have changed him little. Heroes or Villains?
Joseph had come to accept his own medical masquerade so thoroughly that he felt no compunction about taking this project on. THE LONGEST WAY HOME
The lightness of heart which had dressed them in masquerade habits, had decorated their tents, and assembled them in fantastic groups, appeared a sin against, and a provocative to, the awful destiny that had laid its palsying hand upon hope and life. II.6
The mainly young protesters, many in their teens, defied the security forces' assaults and chanted slogans against the upcoming presidential elections, calling it a masquerade.
It was like showing up at the masquerade ball wearing the same costume two years in a row.

_ Now it comes into my head, the duke of Mantua makes an entertainment to night in masquerade: If you love extravagancy so well, madam, I'll put you into the head of one; lay by your nunship for an hour or two, and come amongst us in disguise. The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 04
The I of her narrative is a masquerade, and her identity is never more than a metonym for an endless chain of signifiers.
He masqueraded as the gardener and cook, under the alias of David Motsamayi.
There was an explosion of colour, creativity and artistry on display among the masqueraders.
Mary hid her laughter; she knew of the amusing masquerade that the two were carrying on.
The Earl's Court house wasn't in his name masqueraded instead as what it was perfectly equipped to be, an elite rare book dealership and had hitherto been safe. 'The Last Werewolf'
Subsequently, the duke joins in on the masquerade, play-acting the threat of sexual violence against Zidler - a rehearsal for his actions later in the film.
He masqueraded as a doctor and fooled everyone.
- A German immigrant who masqueraded as a member of the famous Rockefeller family appeared Friday in a Southern California court to face charges that he murdered his landlord more than a quarter-century ago then fled the state. Rockefeller Impostor Appears In Murder Case
In the inkiness, in the masquerade, he was a creature of the night. One-ClickBuy:SeptemberHarlequinBlaze
Rather, it presented and discussed children's masquerade in Africa, a subject little explored but much witnessed by scholars studying African cultures.
Because economic rationality recognises exchange-value only, these diseconomies become visible only when the deficit is translated into a form which simultaneously masquerades as wealth: economic demand.
It sounds incredible but last year 56,000 families discovered that a fraudster had masqueraded as a loved one after their death in order to take out credit cards and loans.
The look became dottier and dottier, until it morphed into a kind of homeless masquerade, one that was accented by subtle luxuries like a cashmere muffler, a Balenciaga lariat bag and of course her signature carryout latte from Starbucks. "Ashcan chic ... a kind of homeless masquerade."
I in turn don't contain even the merest trace elements of sympathy for the ambitious, vain and greedy trendoids who masquerade as contestants on these shows.
Sometimes a medical illness or another psychiatric condition can masquerade as depression.
A consummate professional and master decorator, he has never presented work that does not meet his own exacting standards of design, even if it means outshining everybody else's masquerade.
I had to think of a way to end this masquerade, but a crowd had formed to watch and I didn't want to break up something that could be considered cool.
Crawford must have played the older boy who was supposed to take Terry to the school masquerade - until he got the mumps, that is. WHERE CREDIT IS DUE
Fancy dress store Masquerade collected the customer friendly award, while chocolate maker Thorntons was named Croydon's best food or drink retailer.
I am incandescent with rage about the overselling of that mediocre piece of less-than-fluff that masquerades as the ultimate romantic comedy.
The ambitious teenager masquerades as pilot, doctor and lawyer while mainlining in embezzlement.
Over her long and varied career, she has used masquerade, performance and role-playing to extend the frontiers of her own identity.
Extravagantly costumed masquerade troupes shimmied down the streets as trucks with speakers piled high blasted out calypso and soul.
Festival organizers aimed for a harmonious parade of different masquerades, the order of which was controlled by officials urging groups forward and holding them back.
How long must the majority of the Scottish people continue to elect such deceitful scoundrels and charlatans who masquerade as champions of the working class in our country?
The Corinthian is another, and The Masqueraders offers a bonus boy dressed as a girl. My Favorite Girls Dressed as Boys - Romance Edition
He upheld a New York State statute prohibiting the wearing of masks or facial disguises in public, other than for masquerade or similar entertainment purposes.
These drawings and models were juxtaposed with photographs of adult masquerade performances and examples of the masks themselves.
· It is possible to use own code; no characters are "masqueraded" (if you e.g. write a in the source, it will cause a new line and nothing else)! Softpedia - Windows - All
Truth that is allowed to lurk uncovered becomes a malign entity for in that hidden state it allows untruth to accumulate credence and masquerade as gospel.
The masquerade starts after dinner from 9: 10 pm and will last into the early hours.
The film explores this realm through a complex narrative use of masks and masquerade.
She didn't really love him, but she kept up the masquerade for the children's sake.
‘Sherburn's abridgment should no longer continue to masquerade as Clarissa in the canon of English literature,’ railed these critics in 1988, bolstered by the recent publication of the Penguin paperback.
His bank, Abbey National, wrote to The Sunday Times charging that "someone from the Sunday Times or acting on its behalf has masqueraded as Mr Brown for the purpose of obtaining information from Abbey National by deception," according to the BBC. Phone Hacking Scandal Widens: News International Targeted Gordon Brown, BSkyB Bid Delayed (LIVE UPDATES)
The masquerade goes on seemingly harmlessly until, whoa!
As you, my dear, always turn pale when the word masquerade is mentioned; so, I warrant, will ABBEVILLE be a word of terror to these wretches, as long as they live. The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7)
I can't believe that you managed to get him to escort you to this masquerade.
The cost is 1,000 yuan for dinner and masquerade, 500 yuan for masquerade only.
Masquerades, extraordinarily popular entertainments in the eighteenth century, were morally suspect events.
There is nothing morally wrong with a profit motive except where it masquerades as moral philanthropy.
Traditional African masquerade, dating back to the era before emancipation, used rags, paint, and spears to portray an image of a miserable, uncivilised past.
I am ashamed of being a young rake, when my seniors are covering their gray toupees with helmets and feathers, and accoutering their pot-bellies with cuirasses and martial masquerade habits. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
A creature of the Iron Heel, he had successfully masqueraded as a revolutionist and penetrated deep into the secrets of our organization. Chapter 19: Transformation
Hasn't anyone besides me noticed the flavor of masquerade and carnivalesque fantasy in Joan's behavior?
At the masquerade party, my head was covered with a black skullcap with cute little feline ears.
a beggar's masquerade of wealth
The words are not very satisfactory because the deathward tendency masquerades as the lifeward tendency, and the lifeward tendency, before fruition, looks like the deathward one. The New Theology
Carnival Messiah has 100 performers from the worlds of theatre, opera, dance and masquerade, some international, others local.
The photographs I have in the show are a way of being invisible, they are deliberately… they masquerade as abstract compositions, they have been in contexts before where they have been completely misrecognized as something else.
I felt in my soul that the rat -- yes, the _rat_, the RAT I had just seen, was that evil being in masquerade, and rambling through the house upon some infernal night lark. J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 1
Brooklyn is taken over by a sea of masqueraders in spectacular costumes, wining to pulsating soca, behind eye-catching floats.
The lesson is dishonest in that it masquerades as science while including misrepresentations and factual errors.
They kept up the masquerade of being happily married for over thirty years.
Low self-worth will often masquerade as fear, anger, resentment, bitterness and so on.
Dr Watson was seldom in danger of seeing through any of these masquerades.
Now, though, unable to be true to himself, his painting too became a masquerade.
Meanwhile, because we are accustomed to the roles each actor usually performs, we become acutely aware that we are witnessing a performance, or masquerade.
Well, for an answer, stare into the slitty, unblinking puddles of evil that masquerade as a cat's eyes. Times, Sunday Times
If only this was just a Shakespearean farce and we could snigger at the gross stupidity of the characters portrayed and their ridiculous masquerades, but shamefully it is real and we are obliged to see it through to the end.
To make visible that extreme degree of artificiality, and to clarify the fact that such fakery is the normal condition of poetry that masquerades as personal feeling, is an intellectual accomplishment of some magnitude. Life of Letitia Landon
I look forward to ZDnet's damaging breakdown of the whole Microsoft "astroturfer" campaign, in which untold hundreds of people are paid from Microsoft coffers to masquerade as genuine Microsoft users, while they stream a constant flow of lies and deliberate pro-Microsoft, anti-Microsoft-competitor distortions to magazines and tech News web sites like ZDnet. Daring Fireball
He decided to ride over to the MacDonald ranch that evening and have a look at the bad _hombre_ who masqueraded as a bug-hunter -- bug-hunter, it should be explained, being a Western term for any stranger engaged in scientific pursuits. 'Me--Smith'
It was long and gauzy; it felt like something that should be worn to a masquerade ball, or a prom.
The societies brought prosecutions against vice and protested against lewd plays and lascivious entertainments, such as masquerades.
Special fascinating are the nocturnal masquerade ball of Valentine's Dayses. This at several decade ago very popular. Attend the dancing party of into.
His office was smaller than her own, with only room for his throne, as he called it, and a flimsy whatnot that masqueraded as a desk. PROSPECT HILL
If I espy a weed trying to masquerade as one of my plants I just yank it out.
This belief makes each of the parties put up the masquerade up to the very end in the hope that once the prize is won, they would be able to jettison the other parties.
Most masquerades are activated and protected by supernaturally charged ‘medicines,’ substances made from sacred materials that are placed on the masks or the bodies of the maskers.
On Thursday, Burton appeared in a federal courtroom in Riverside and pleaded not guilty to charges that he masqueraded as a decorated military veteran. NEWS NOVEMBER 2009
We need to speak out against intolerance that masquerades as tolerance.
The masquerade is where fans play instruments and perform skits, dance numbers, and stand-up comedy in costume. Ed at Otakon — Saturday and Sunday » Manga Worth Reading
Approximately fifty masquerade types appeared in the 1993 festival.
This utterly engaging and thoroughly likeable book masquerades under the pretence of being a search for ‘the perfect meal’.
He tried to make us act plays, and to enter into masquerades, in which the characters were drawn from the heroes of Roncesvalles, of the Round Table of Chapter 2
Joseph had come to accept his own medical masquerade so thoroughly that he felt no compunction about taking this project on. THE LONGEST WAY HOME
By limiting the performances to three minutes in the central space, the organizers ensured that the maskers had to decide what brief performative elements best represented their masquerade.
One who wears a mask , especially a participant in a masquerade masque.
One who a mask, especially a participant a masquerade or masque.
The chameleon-like Isle of Man has masqueraded as many real places too.
The film tells the story of a Swiss secret agent who masquerades as a grocer in order to uncover a drugs ring.
She ended up working for a business that masquerades as a charity.
The true meaning of the word "faerie" is spiritual, but many stories masquerade under that title which have no claim to it. The Story Hour
When Masquerade was published, one prominent magazine claimed I was "aping" my male betters. Gayle Lynds: "Aping" Her Betters
The nudist magazines I am referring to also attempt a masquerade of non-homoerotic intent, they are steadfastly about nudism and naturalism, and the philosophies and lifestyles that are part of those subcultures.
Subsequently, the duke joins in on the masquerade, play-acting the threat of sexual violence - a rehearsal for his actions later in the film.
The best part was to be the New Year's eve masquerade.
The Seniors threw masquerade party on Thanksgiving Day.
And because it masquerades as news, we naturally let our guard down, invoking a built in trust of that which is media establishment.
56Mihopoulou (1995-96: 37), foregrounding the genesis of Skoupa, confirms the antipathy felt by many readers towards the preponderance of Resistance literature which, in her assessment, 'masqueraded' as feminist literature. Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
Ekeleke masqueraders dance gracefully on short stilts, wear George-cloth wrappers, and cover their faces with a piece of lace.
We gathered a hatful of mushrooms, those toothsome "plants in masquerade," which grow in great perfection in this valley. Janey Canuck in the West
When he masquerades as someone else, he is just a fake.
Some were dressed in costumes made from animal heads or fur - the origin of the contemporary Halloween masquerade.
He masquerades as a bounty hunter and joins a small group of actors traveling to the King's palace to entertain the King, meeting the leader of the group, a charismatic young man with a taste for danger and beautiful women.
Latvians hold masquerade 7 parties, and Rumanians sing a carol concerning Emperor Trajan and a bull.
But still, ever since I began this masquerade, I had tried to change everything.
He might try to masquerade as a policeman.
AKRON -- An Akron teacher who masqueraded as a combat veteran once threatened to bring a shotgun to school and shoot a special education student who was making too much noise, according to his teaching file. Heroes or Villains?
Lighthearted and serious at the same time, the story tells of a ruler who masquerades as a lowly sty-warden to observe what the community's various members do for the good of the whole.
There are some journalists and war reporters who, despite years of experience, are very opinionated and whose masquerade of objectivity is easy to see through.
The masquerade works a bit better for the strapping Janet McTeer, who plays Albert's fellow transvestite, a housepainter who goes by the name of Hubert Page and opens Albert's eyes to possibilities he'd never thought existed. 'Man on a Ledge' Does a Balancing Act
Masqueraders, acrobats, jugglers, paraders and various artists have been lined up to take part in the inner city's first New Year's Eve carnival.
He masqueraded as a doctor and fooled everyone.
One of e-mail's drawbacks is that it masquerades as communication when it is best used for informing, broadcasting, or scheduling.
Eventually the use of the body, ritualism, masquerade, and the shrine-like aura in non-Western religious and art practices found their way into conceptual art.
Someone call the Washington Times and alert them to this sly wolfish masquerade!
Ekeleke masqueraders dance gracefully on short stilts, wear George-cloth wrappers, and cover their faces with a piece of lace.
Everday life is almost solely composed of a series of ritualized masquerades.
This reverse process can make these viewers unknowingly complicit with their own duping through artfully crafted masquerade.
One who wears a mask , especially a participant in a masquerade or masque.
For a cross-dressing, fencing heroine try Georgette Heyer's The Masqueraders, but the heroine isn't a very good fencer, which is a shame. Need a hero, need a book, need some sleep
It is a site devoted to this musical masquerade.
Pierced and strung together by youths, shells also served as ankle rattles for use in masquerades.
Or, how can one study a masquerade without discussing the physical mask, the apparent centerpiece of any masquerade?
The stowaway masqueraded as a crew member.
But the shave was the best I have ever had, beating these triple bladed, turbocharged bits of plastic which masquerade as razors, and according to the adverts, guarantee you get laid by some really classy crumpet.
A woman masquerades as a doctor, but is stalking a male staff member as part of a delusion of erotomania.
There were nightclubs, there were hoedowns, there were folk dances and there were masquerades.
This utterly engaging and thoroughly likeable book masquerades under the pretence of being a search for ‘the perfect meal’.
The asserted benefits of transracial adoption further obscure the system's racial bias and masquerade as reasons to oppose policies that preserve black families.
The idle rich of the day flocked to this elaborate mansion to be entertained by lavish masquerade balls and concerts, organised by a mysterious female impresario called Teresa Cornelys.
His continuing masquerade is certainly evident in his most recent profanity-filled email to one of my SEAL Teammates … and includes the following colorful statement Peter Sumaruck
Whilst she takes him for a beau in masquerade and is wonderfully pleased. The Beau Defeated: or, The Lucky Younger Brother
They were alert, well-muscled; their faces were streaked with paleness and a black smutch like dancers made up for a masquerade. Tramping on Life
But, as the visual evidence of his increasingly elaborate frontispieces suggests, this was also a logical next step in Soyer's ongoing, authorial masquerade: to appear in the most exalted of guises, as Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
The prince masqueraded as a peasant.
The Seniors threw a masquerade party on Thanksgiving Day.
She thinks that his public intoxication was mostly feigned, part of a "masquerade" to hide his tuberculosis; that he used drugs and especially alcohol "medicinally," as a "necessary anesthetic" and antispasmodic "to soothe his coughing fits. The Bad Boy of Montparnasse
The outbreak of a mass emailing worm, which masquerades as a matchmaking program, has been brought under control.
The evidence of his shameful masquerade is clear and straightforward. Peter Sumaruck
Here is combined a long deep legacy of dress-up for masquerade, for carnival, for possession by the Gods combined with personal creativity and ingenuity.
This distance functions like a mask or masquerade, revealing more than it hides.
On the one hand, looking within from without causes her to adopt and discard various socially approved feminine masquerades whilst her ‘real’ self remains in hiding.
At the masquerade party, my head was covered with a black skullcap with cute little feline ears.
These masqueraders may well be members of a Congo cabildo who have agreed to be photographed in one of Havana's best-known photography studios.
As masquerades start to unravel and tanks roll into town Charlotte is forced to decide whose safety matters most.
For all the protestations, she appears to remain the Mistress of Masquerade.
The masquerade would fail , and besides , masquerade was foreign to his nature.
You can call this the most seasonally unsympathetic killjoy of a column if you like, but over the past week did television not furnish the most unappealing crock of keech to masquerade as mass entertainment?
He is as anonymous, and accessible, as a masquerade orgiast. Warren Ellis
Some drawings are barely colored at all, others more fully, but one invariably feels that the artist is engaged in a masquerade of his own, pretending to be a child grown impatient with rules.
Subsequently, the duke joins in on the masquerade, play-acting the threat of sexual violence against Zidler - a rehearsal for his actions later in the film.
‘Sherburn's abridgment should no longer continue to masquerade as Clarissa in the canon of English literature,’ railed these critics in 1988, bolstered by the recent publication of the Penguin paperback.
Later in the novel, Clara performs a masquerade in reverse, pretending to be a governess while she is still working as a servant.
Secondly, the king's lord chancellor was holding a masquerade about the traits of the perfect woman.
For me, the word masquerade takes me back to the famous masked ball scene in The Phantom of the Opera. Undefined
I am ashamed of being a young rake, when my seniors are covering their grey toupees with helmets and feathers, and accoutering their pot-bellies with cuirasses and martial masquerade habits. Letters of Horace Walpole 01
I never once believed I was in the presence of real grief (the kind that sears the soul and burns the heart), just a Hollywood-generated masquerade.
Now, though, unable to be true to himself, his painting too became a masquerade.
Of the 600 men who were to masquerade as Americans, only 10 could speak fluent English.
Years of benign neglect on the part of her parents are followed by an intense self-serving attention that masquerades as love.
After a recital of his misfortune had entertained the company, and after the muses had performed their parts to the satisfaction of the audience and their own, the conversation ceased to be supported in masquerade character; muses and harlequins, gipsies and Cleopatras, began to talk of their private affairs, and of the news and the scandal of the day. Belinda
It is unlikely we will soon return to a masquerade of can-can supported grandeur and today's parade music must bow to that reality-not the other way around.
The word ‘mask’ is related to a masque or masquerade, which was a courtly performance popular during the Renaissance and the seventeenth century.
Vampire: The Masquerade, " the vampire role-playing game is released by White Wolf.
Coincidentally, he'd been kvetching to me about the lack of masquerade balls, just before I found out that there was going to be one.
Vinyl is only tacky when it masquerades as leather.
Adrian mused a moment; and the result of his revery was a determination to delay for another sun his departure to Palestrina -- to take advantage of the nature of the revel, and to join the masquerade. Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes
But there are others, scoundrels, who masquerade under the cloak of the blockader for their own selfish gains, and I call down the just wrath and vengeance of an embattled people, fighting in the justest of Causes, on these human vultures who bring in satins and laces when our men are dying for want of quinine, who load their boats with tea and wines when our heroes are writhing for lack of morphia. Gone with the Wind
Dancers perform and various personages enact their masquerade roles before the major characters make their appearances.
It has become the Jewish Mardi Gras, a day of revelry, drinking, and masquerades.
The effectivity of masquerade lies precisely in its potential to manufacture a distance from the image, to generate a problematic within which the image is manipulable, producible, and readable by the woman.
Nevertheless, the preceding account simply specifies masquerade as a type of representation which carries a threat, disarticulating male systems of viewing.
Pope Joan's description of the impromptu birth of her child, while the female pope was still in mannish masquerade, is a guaranteed conversation stopper.
When he painted the ladies of quality at their routs and drums, masquerades, and hurly-burlies, he knew what he was talking about, for this was the life he himself led, when he was not at college. Gossip in a Library
Both land and water dwellers believe in river spirits, and aquatic masquerades reflect a shared ethos.
He told a news conference that the elections would be a masquerade.
They kept up the masquerade of being happily married for over thirty years.
A woman masquerades as a doctor, but is stalking a male staff member as part of a delusion of erotomania.
A modern reproduction that masquerades as brass it may be, but still it is beautiful.
Other references to the Igbo derivation of particular masquerades occur in their praise songs.

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