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Example sentences for: charade

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From here, it looks an awful lot as if the whole purpose of this charade was to get a little faux buzz for an all-but-unknown production company.
… [It] offers diabolically smart surprises wherever you care to look" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). The wild measures Ripley takes to maintain the charade cause some critics to lose interest in the second half of the film: "When Tom's aberrant qualities become more dangerous, the movie loses its moorings and drifts into a sort of highly polished, implausible melodrama" (Desson Howe, the Washington Post ). (Visit the official site.)
Editorialists denounced the trial as a "charade" on several grounds: 1) He was tried by his own murderous faction instead of an international tribunal, evidently to gain credibility for the Khmer Rouge within and beyond Cambodia.
I can't believe that the sponsors and athletes are letting the IOC get away with this recent charade on, ah-hem, reform.
What a charade.