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  • The security going into Watson-Crick was very thorough, unlike the sloppy charade that took place at Martha Graham: the fear must have been that some fanatic would sneak in and blow up the best minds of the generation, thus dealing a crippling blow to something or other.†   (source)
  • We played charades and he was just awful.†   (source)
  • This whole charade of living like a slave had come to an end.†   (source)
  • He fears being discovered, having the whole charade somehow unravel, and in nightmares his files are exposed, his original name printed on the front page of the Yale Daily News.†   (source)
  • If they can control us, if they can do whatever they want with us, make us do anything, then why would they even bother with this whole charade of giving us a choice?†   (source)
  • Everybody joined in for a game of charades.†   (source)
  • "And this charade about the Stilson boy," Mother said.†   (source)
  • He moves his hand easily to his pocket, picking up seamlessly on our little charade, and whispers back, "I couldn't wait."†   (source)
  • Carry on the charade of normal family life?†   (source)
  • And end this charade.†   (source)
  • Why bother with the charade?†   (source)
  • They were like a parlor charade of horse and rider.†   (source)
  • As we stared at each other, I didn't expect Savannah to answer, and frankly, I didn't want her to I was still trying to get my mind around the fact that the hours she had spent with my dad were nothing but a charade.†   (source)
  • You can play charades.†   (source)
  • Rachel was delighted to play with the "new girl" or "new boy" in the neighborhood-children of other instructors, the grandchildren of friends, for a while with Niki's daughter-but the other children had to grow accustomed to Rachel greeting them anew each day, remembering nothing of their common past, and only a few had the sensitivity to continue such a charade for the sake of a playmate.†   (source)
  • But if they wanted to play college football—if they wanted a shot at "the league"—they had to go through the tedious charade of pretending to be ordinary college students.†   (source)
  • Why should I carry on this charade?†   (source)
  • That whole charade back there.†   (source)
  • Confident of my ignorance, he was willing to let the charade continue.†   (source)
  • Then we played a bunch of cheesy party games like charades and Monopoly.†   (source)
  • TARGET Alice dropped me off in the morning, in keeping with the slumber party charade.†   (source)
  • The receptionist was not innocent and neither was I. The whole charade we had played out in that crummy waiting room had directly to do with me, Black, and her, white.†   (source)
  • So the consult was really just a charade.†   (source)
  • "I'm glad you're being honest with me; I'll be honest with you; no more charades between us," the Count said, putting down a number of notebooks and quill pens and ink bottles.†   (source)
  • If it must be, then I have no reason to maintain this charade .†   (source)
  • Indeed, he had little choice, for if he attempted to imprison me in our new house, he could not keep up the charade of a happy marriage in front of our friends.†   (source)
  • There was virtually no evidence against him, and I assumed the only reason the state kept up the charade of prosecuting him in prison was to intimidate progressive lawyers.†   (source)
  • By question 11 —"I am terrible at pantomime, as in games like charades" — he was laughing out loud.†   (source)
  • It must have been half past five in the morning, well after several delirious games of cards and charades that had been brought on by too much candy and too little sleep.†   (source)
  • How might you determine whether the lack of discrimination against blacks and women represents a true absence or just a charade?†   (source)
  • Dish knew many card games and could even play charades, so he was a great hit with the girls.†   (source)
  • Macon went on with the charade, pretending he didn't know his sister was the one Porter and anybody else—adult, child, or beast—could buy wine from.†   (source)
  • I was angry at them for seeing this charade through.†   (source)
  • Yossarian was unmoved by the fustian charade of the burial ceremony, and by Milo's crushing bereavement.†   (source)
  • He started to laugh, genuinely delighted that she had an adult sense of humor about the dating charade.†   (source)
  • There were charades and games of bridge and backgammon and shuffleboard tournaments and badminton contests.†   (source)
  • Very slowly they began to set aside the charade and embrace something deeper.†   (source)
  • Maybe this whole charade is a prelude to the real trap he's setting for you.†   (source)
  • Surely she could not believe that the vibrations coming from that unholy game of charades in the church aisle would lead to something as permanent as marriage?†   (source)
  • Not quite charades.†   (source)
  • She's only drawing out this charade to punish me for my … my moral implosion!†   (source)
  • They were all masters of checkers and chess and bridge and cribbage and dominoes and anagrams and charades and Ping-Pong and billiards, as well.†   (source)
  • NICK: I'll play the charades like you've got 'em set up…… I'll play in your language…… I'll be what you say I am.†   (source)
  • And how long did you think you could keep up the charade?†   (source)
  • Outside the four barracks, I witnessed scenes of unbearable tenderness in the awkward charades of sons leaving their families for the first time.†   (source)
  • Cecily insisted on playing charades, as if we are all still in nursery, and then, when Martha guessed hers straightaway, Cecily pouted.†   (source)
  • Long after the Big Sister charade had petered out, Abby thought of Linnie fondly.†   (source)
  • One game appeared to be charades reinterpreted by existentialists; another involved listening to rocks.†   (source)
  • I said he was home and that there was no reason to keep up their charade any longer just for my benefit.†   (source)
  • So everyone cheered her, and the lieutenant proposed several toasts, then after the picnic they sang folk songs and played charades until midnight.†   (source)
  • Without being willing quite fully to admit it, I had begun to detest my charade of a job.†   (source)
  • She wassuperstitious; he loved to tease her with tricks, to stage elaborate charades with the connivance of one of his little boys, that preyed on her fear of ghosts.†   (source)
  • She had gone to parties, played charades, competed in poetry readings, joined a chorus and orchestra.†   (source)
  • 7TH JUROR: Anyone for charades?†   (source)
  • They took an already unacceptable bill and turned it into a charade.   (source)
  • Their participation in negotiations is a charade to buy time.
  • Continuing this charade only puts them in danger.†   (source)
  • The first time he threw one, I was convinced it was a charade, an act he was putting on.†   (source)
  • Behind him, the thing's temper broke through the shambling charade of normality.†   (source)
  • He moved just a little bit too fast, too upset to keep up his usually perfect charade.†   (source)
  • "If it/s Masteen," said Colonel Kassad, "why the charade on the windwagon?†   (source)
  • She's shooing me out so she can keep up her charade, so twisted it's like kudzu.†   (source)
  • I was so hungry for love that I had swallowed the whole charade.†   (source)
  • As the Prince, I knew I could end the charade of acting like a servant any time I wanted.†   (source)
  • But by Christmas Day, they had both become tired of their charade.†   (source)
  • Now that the charade with Mike was over, there was no point in delaying the inevitable.†   (source)
  • He didn't wait for me to call Jessica, so I didn't have to put on that charade.†   (source)
  • To know this whole thing was some sort of charade?†   (source)
  • And you've been in on this little charade all along.†   (source)
  • I just found out this whole thing was a charade, and now you want me to stop?†   (source)
  • Percy had never been good at charades, but Hedge nodded like he understood.†   (source)
  • I kept an eye on my watch, ready to hurry everyone on to part two of tonight's little charade.†   (source)
  • But now his mind was telling him it couldn't keep up the charade any longer.†   (source)
  • I don't understand the point of the charade, but I'm sure there is one.†   (source)
  • I also was certain that Ron, Stan, Russell, and Kevin had seen her charades many times before.†   (source)
  • The charade was over, and the winner minimized his victory with persuasive appreciation.†   (source)
  • It was Lady Denby who revealed Ann's charade at Christmas, largely to humiliate Mrs. Worthington.†   (source)
  • I asked innocently; the soreness rasping in my throat added nicely to the charade.†   (source)
  • Can't you see past this charade and know that I will always love you?†   (source)
  • It was no more than a prop in her charade.†   (source)
  • What would be the point of acting out a charade now, even if I were that talented a liar?†   (source)
  • It wasn't a charade, Mrs. Wiggin.†   (source)
  • This charade went on for months.†   (source)
  • Tyson didn't get charades.†   (source)
  • "In truth," he said, "the entire, evil charade made me think of nothing so much as a passage in a letter I wrote … he wrote… to his brother George some time before his illness.†   (source)
  • The room wasn't empty; all the Cullens had taken their places, ready to put on their usual perfect human charade.†   (source)
  • Edward had more than enough camping gear to choose from — props in the human charade; the Cullens were good customers at the Newton's store.†   (source)
  • From the tension in his neck, Hazel could tell that he was tempted to drop the charade and attack—one quick slash with his Imperial gold blade.†   (source)
  • You live in this silly condition of yours because of your own foolishness in following Justin's charade.†   (source)
  • Perhaps you would prefer that we continue with this foolish charade of fractured resistance until we have squandered all basis for meaningful negotiations?†   (source)
  • The charade had worked; he was in the enemy's camp, convinced beyond doubt that he had not been recognized.†   (source)
  • The Cullens weren't trying as hard as they usually did—the human charade had slipped ever so slightly, enough for Charlie to feel the difference.†   (source)
  • The charade doesn't bother me at all.†   (source)
  • The noncommittal eyes became more distant, then blinked; it was enough for David but the charade had to be played out.†   (source)
  • Maybe it'll turn out to have been nothing but a charade all along, but … people have to try, Roger.†   (source)
  • It's a charade, he thought.†   (source)
  • I wanted to believe it was because she was playing the charade and not because she was being compelled, but I remembered the way she'd been yanked I around as if by a rope earlier at Loki's command Sam stood to my right, her hands clasped anxiously.†   (source)
  • Usually, Alec cuts off all sense and feeling from their victims while they go through the charade of a counsel.†   (source)
  • I always win at charades!†   (source)
  • What charade?†   (source)
  • So why was he sent thousands of miles to do the work another could do just as well and without the elaborate charade of his auspicious arrival?†   (source)
  • While Mother's act may have worked for her years ago, it hardly seemed she could carry on with the charade any longer.†   (source)
  • Those sad remains were no more than he had expected; he already knew where the object of his search lay, but he maintained the charade of ignorance to avoid kindling Roran's suspicion.†   (source)
  • "There are a few humans in on your charade here, as well," Edward reminded him, and I thought of the pretty receptionist below.†   (source)
  • I was tired of this charade.†   (source)
  • Liang instantly smiled, as falsely as before, aware that he had undoubtedly lost the charade with his command.†   (source)
  • It's like a mystifying charade," murmured Bourne, again carefully arching his neck and staring at the ceiling.†   (source)
  • The entire charade would be over.†   (source)
  • He was either so crushed by his own words that he couldn't proceed with his charade, or he truly did not care for her and was now disinterested.†   (source)
  • … Charade!†   (source)
  • Leaving aside the reasons why they are what they are-which can range from a justifiable cause to the psychopathic megalomania of a Jackal-you keep the charades going because they're playing out their own.†   (source)
  • Again, throughout this entire charade I really can hardly believe the actuality of what is happening, simply cannot accept the fact that after her absolutely breath-taking overture, all those unequivocal invitations and blazing come-hithers, she is falling back on this outrageous flimflam.†   (source)
  • Like a strip of film run at antic jerky speed through the projector, she saw that morning's mad charade, saw Wilhelmine's mop of flaming hair draw back from her groin, the famished damp lips parted in a petrified perfect 0, eyes sparkling with terror; looking at the revulsion in Hoss's face, thinking of the housekeeper, she felt herself begin to suppress either a scream or a peal of laughter.†   (source)
  • At college and elsewhere I had played out this solemn little cultural charade too many times to be unaware that it was a prelude, a preliminary feeling-out of mutual sensibilities in which the substance of what one said was less important than the putative authority with which one's words were spoken.†   (source)
  • It is perhaps a reflection on the severe morality of that period that despite Yetta's relatively tolerant attitude toward sex, Sophie and Nathan felt constrained to live technically apart—separated by a mere few yards of linoleum-covered hallway—rather than moving in together into either one of their commodious rooms, where they would no longer have to enact their formal charade of devoted companions lacking any carnal interests.†   (source)
  • We started out-after all, could I let him go alone, a child dressed up to act the charades?†   (source)
  • What exactly it had to do with the word in the charade nobody knew, but it did not matter.†   (source)
  • Did I not say just now that he was as a child acting the charades?†   (source)
  • She told me they always have charades at Christmas.†   (source)
  • 'Beatrice says he loves playing charades,' I said.†   (source)
  • There was something pathetic about their grandeur, as if they were dressed up for a charade but not quite fitted.†   (source)
  • If they had charades, Rose made the dresses; made everything; liked best arranging tables, flowers, anything.†   (source)
  • When he had gone I put the note away in my pocket, and turned once more to my pencil drawing, but for no known reason it did not please me any more; the face was stiff and lifeless, and the lace collar and the beard were like props in a charade.†   (source)
  • In very breathing they draw meat and drink from some beautiful attenuation of unreality in which the shades and shapes of facts—of birth and bereavement, of suffering and bewilderment and despair—move with the substanceless decorum of lawn party charades, perfect in gesture and without significance or any ability to hurt Miss Rosa ordered that one.†   (source)
  • We had charades.†   (source)
  • Only all the family, including the father, joined in charades and games at evening.†   (source)
  • They acted charades, at which Pickerbaugh was tremendous.†   (source)
  • "Let's play charades!" said Raymie Wutherspoon.†   (source)
  • "Bridewell!" exclaimed Colonel Dent, and the charade was solved.†   (source)
  • Where would be the use of his bringing us a charade made by a friend upon a mermaid or a shark?†   (source)
  • The second part of the charade takes place.†   (source)
  • He has encouragement enough to proceed, without our sighing out our souls over this charade.†   (source)
  • Depend upon it, he would not like to have his charade slighted, much better than his passion.†   (source)
  • It is such a pretty charade, my dear, that I can easily guess what fairy brought it.†   (source)
  • An excellent charade indeed! and very much to the purpose.†   (source)
  • Approve my charade and my intentions in the same glance.'†   (source)
  • I do think it is, without exception, the best charade I ever read.†   (source)
  • But here is my father coming: you will not object to my reading the charade to him.†   (source)
  • Miss Woodhouse, what a pity that I must not write this beautiful charade into my book!†   (source)
  • My dear Harriet, you must not refine too much upon this charade.†   (source)
  • They had never, I think, wanted to do so many things for their poor protectress; I mean—though they got their lessons better and better, which was naturally what would please her most—in the way of diverting, entertaining, surprising her; reading her passages, telling her stories, acting her charades, pouncing out at her, in disguises, as animals and historical characters, and above all astonishing her by the "pieces" they had secretly got by heart and could interminably recite.†   (source)
  • Such disappointments only gave greater zest to the nights when we acted charades, or had a costume ball in the back parlour, with Sally always dressed like a boy.†   (source)
  • The rest of the time you were quite happy playing charades and having supper in fancy dress, and there was no need to mingle any strange element with the little 'clan.'†   (source)
  • The supper was to be at six o'clock, in the basement of the church, and afterward there would be a fair, with charades and an auction.†   (source)
  • From his memory of high-school pleasures back in Catawba he suggested the nicest games: Going to Boston, and charades with stew-pans for helmets, and word-games in which you were an Adjective or a Quality.†   (source)
  • After supper the young people played charades for the amusement of their elders, who sat gossiping between their guesses.†   (source)
  • Then Martin, Orchid, and Hibisca (aged twelve) had to present a charade, and there were complications.†   (source)
  • "When I lost my dear first and became the wife of my dear second," said Mrs. Badger, speaking of her former husbands as if they were parts of a charade, "I still enjoyed opportunities of observing youth.†   (source)
  • I have read worse charades.†   (source)
  • A portion of that splendid room, the picture gallery of Gaunt House, was arranged as the charade theatre.†   (source)
  • What charade Colonel Dent and his party played, what word they chose, how they acquitted themselves, I no longer remember; but I still see the consultation which followed each scene: I see Mr. Rochester turn to Miss Ingram, and Miss Ingram to him; I see her incline her head towards him, till the jetty curls almost touch his shoulder and wave against his cheek; I hear their mutual whisperings; I recall their interchanged glances; and something even of the feeling roused by the spectacle…†   (source)
  • The three syllables of this charade were to be depicted in pantomime, and the performance took place in the following wise: First syllable.†   (source)
  • I wondered what they were going to do the first evening a change of entertainment was proposed: they spoke of "playing charades," but in my ignorance I did not understand the term.†   (source)
  • Where was the beautiful black-eyed Houri whose appearance in the first charade had caused such delight?†   (source)
  • Servants brought in salvers covered with numerous cool dainties, and the performers disappeared to get ready for the second charade-tableau.†   (source)
  • Hassan from within bawls out, "First two syllables"—and Mrs. Rawdon Crawley, who is going to act in the charade, comes forward and compliments Mrs. Winkworth on the admirable taste and beauty of her costume.†   (source)
  • Lord Steyne's visits continuing, his own ceased, and his wife was for refusing all further intercourse with that nobleman and declining the invitation to the charade-night which the marchioness sent to her; but Sir Pitt thought it was necessary to accept it, as his Royal Highness would be there.†   (source)
  • He led off the first charade.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER LI In Which a Charade Is Acted Which May or May Not Puzzle the Reader After Becky's appearance at my Lord Steyne's private and select parties, the claims of that estimable woman as regards fashion were settled, and some of the very greatest and tallest doors in the metropolis were speedily opened to her—doors so great and tall that the beloved reader and writer hereof may hope in vain to enter at them.†   (source)
  • At this time the amiable amusement of acting charades had come among us from France, and was considerably in vogue in this country, enabling the many ladies amongst us who had beauty to display their charms, and the fewer number who had cleverness to exhibit their wit.†   (source)
  • Pitt Crawley declared her behaviour was monstrously indecorous, reprobated in strong terms the habit of play-acting and fancy dressing as highly unbecoming a British female, and after the charades were over, took his brother Rawdon severely to task for appearing himself and allowing his wife to join in such improper exhibitions.†   (source)
  • To be sure, the charade, with its "ready wit"—but then the "soft eyes"—in fact it suited neither; it was a jumble without taste or truth.†   (source)
  • …was bound to peruse, otherwise he would by no means permit the introduction of Sunday papers into his household), the theatrical criticisms, the fight for a hundred pounds a side between the Barking Butcher and the Tutbury Pet, the Gaunt House chronicle itself, which contained a most complimentary though guarded account of the famous charades of which Mrs. Becky had been the heroine—all these passed as in a haze before Rawdon, as he sat waiting the arrival of the chief of the family.†   (source)
  • But take it away, and all appropriation ceases, and a very pretty gallant charade remains, fit for any collection.†   (source)
  • A piece of paper was found on the table this morning—(dropt, we suppose, by a fairy)—containing a very pretty charade, and we have just copied it in.†   (source)
  • Later in the morning, and just as the girls were going to separate in preparation for the regular four o'clock dinner, the hero of this inimitable charade walked in again.†   (source)
  • With the view of passing off an awkward moment, Emma smilingly said, "You must make my apologies to your friend; but so good a charade must not be confined to one or two.†   (source)
  • He re-urged—she re-declined; and he seemed then about to make his bow, when taking the paper from the table, she returned it— "Oh! here is the charade you were so obliging as to leave with us; thank you for the sight of it.†   (source)
  • He called for a few moments, just to leave a piece of paper on the table containing, as he said, a charade, which a friend of his had addressed to a young lady, the object of his admiration, but which, from his manner, Emma was immediately convinced must be his own.†   (source)
  • To Miss— CHARADE.†   (source)
  • They owed to him their two or three politest puzzles; and the joy and exultation with which at last he recalled, and rather sentimentally recited, that well-known charade, My first doth affliction denote, Which my second is destin'd to feel And my whole is the best antidote That affliction to soften and heal.†   (source)
  • This charade!†   (source)
  • —and the charade!†   (source)
  • Compliments, charades, and horrible blunders; and it was not to be supposed that poor Harriet should not be recollecting too; but she behaved very well, and was only rather pale and silent.†   (source)
  • "It is one thing," said she, presently—her cheeks in a glow—"to have very good sense in a common way, like every body else, and if there is any thing to say, to sit down and write a letter, and say just what you must, in a short way; and another, to write verses and charades like this."†   (source)
  • He was invited to contribute any really good enigmas, charades, or conundrums that he might recollect; and she had the pleasure of seeing him most intently at work with his recollections; and at the same time, as she could perceive, most earnestly careful that nothing ungallant, nothing that did not breathe a compliment to the sex should pass his lips.†   (source)
  • At Dolphin's barn charades in Luke Doyle's house.†   (source)
  • The first night after the charades.†   (source)
  • Dolphin's Barn, the charades.†   (source)
  • Once, in 1887, after a protracted performance of charades in the house of Luke Doyle, Kimmage, he had awaited with patience the apparition of the diurnal phenomenon, seated on a wall, his gaze turned in the direction of Mizrach, the east.†   (source)
  • …his company manners making it so awkward after when we met asking me have I offended you with my eyelids down of course he saw I wasnt he had a few brains not like that other fool Henny Doyle he was always breaking or tearing something in the charades I hate an unlucky man and if I knew what it meant of course I had to say no for form sake dont understand you I said and wasnt it natural so it is of course it used to be written up with a picture of a womans on that wall in Gibraltar…†   (source)
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