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Example sentences for: masquerade

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The editorial, titled "Janet Reno's Latest Trick," says the departure of the lead prosecutor after only seven months makes it "plain that his appointment was a public-relations masquerade."
In Italy pignattas were hung from the ceilings during masquerade balls.
When the couples returned to Central Point to visit, the town went along with the masquerade.
At the other extreme is the eager embrace of urban chaos, masquerade, and color.
Levinthal's title for this series reveals his interest in a tradition of blackface masquerade that, by the turn of the century, was largely a Jewish province (think of Al Jolson's The Jazz Singer ). While Jewish minstrelsy operated on the premise that black people were inherently funny, it also reflected a complex identification of Jews with blacks--an identification between outsider groups explored by such contemporary scholars as Michael Rogin, in Blackface, White Noise , and Eric Lott, in Love and Theft .