Word: spuriousness
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...Spurious luxury increased. The midinette insisted on her silk stockings and her cheap furs in which rabbit predominated. Perfumers made fortunes. ... At the same time it was forgotten that through the centuries the Church had ordered Sunday as a day of rest...
...coal miner who marries the boss's daughter and by hook & crook becomes a boss himself, John Wayne is a thoroughly stereotyped Hollywood heel. Marlene Dietrich, cast as a rough diamond, looks like a phony one. For denouement, Pearl Harbor arrives to engulf all the characters in a spurious blaze of patriotism. Pittsburgh looks more like slag than good wartime metal...
British and U.S. correspondents, trying to seize in words the feeling of the Red soldier and the Red Army, often sense a profound simplicity, a directness which is likely to seem spurious to western readers. But the feeling is there...
...intricate process of sifting before they can be "released for publication"; but whoever is supervising this sifting would do well to imitate the English experiment of omitting pep-lines and telling the public the worst. Confronted by the truth, the British people have remained steadfastly without panic, and without spurious optimism...
...wartime public sentiment can be stirred and public thinking informed only by something unfavorably known as "propaganda," the program was propaganda. Yet its theatrics, its sentimentality, its moments of bad taste were not products of war but of imperfect art. It did not descend to cheap and spurious jingoism. And it told a truth in telling, out of the mouths of the imagined People, why and when the Bill of Rights was written, what it says, and what it means as an American Charter promising no deprivation of life or property except by due process of law-a conception notably...