Example sentences for: guise

How can you use “guise” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "Its form is the theatrical equivalent of comfort food, something for those who like their nostalgia repackaged in the guise of something new," says the New York Times ' Ben Brantley.

  • In the guise of protecting children.

  • Those dueling Greek painters return in a new guise, as Mario Merz, in the Zeuxis role, covers a glass table with an array of fresh vegetables and fruit, changed daily by a New York caterer ( Spiral Table , 1982), while Christo, playing Parrhasios, conceals the familiar Cézannesque shapes--wine bottle, vase, etc.--under a drapery of canvas ( Package on a Table , 1961).

  • Writing last Sunday in the New York Times Magazine , New York University politics professor Mark Lilla claims to have discovered why the Sixties still incite debate in America (under the guise of the culture wars) whereas such matters have long since been resolved in Europe: Americans naively make a religion out of democracy.

  • Wachtler had written her harassing letters in the guise of a fictional alter ego, and mailed a condom to her young daughter.


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