Stephen Colbert

Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness: a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say 'no.' But saying 'yes' begins things. Saying 'yes' is how things grow.

American Comedian

Anna Kendrick

I guess I feel I'm masquerading as an adult when I don't have the kind of friendships and routines that I thought you were supposed to have as an adult. It's the 'Friends' lied to me! syndrome.

American Actress

Geraldine McCaughrean

I still keep thinking someone will penetrate my guilty secret - that I have been masquerading as a writer all these years while all I was really doing was enjoying myself, pursuing my passion.

British Novelist

Harold Pinter

You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good.

English Dramatist

Cesare Pavese

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Italian Poet

Katherine Moennig

I would not want to play a girl who masquerades as a boy for the rest of my life.

R. D. Laing

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

Scottish Psychologist

Alexander Pope

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

English Poet

Nate Silver

A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.

American Writer

Marina and the Diamonds

I'm masquerading as an innocent pop star.

Welsh Musician

Masquerade balls are rooted in historic European society events, often important in literature.

Cultural Events

Used to describe a themed event where guests should wear disguises.

Event Planning

Masquerades offer an atmosphere of mystery and surprise due to the masks.

Mystery Element

Figuratively used to describe someone concealing their feelings or troubles.

Hiding Emotions

In social contexts, acting differently to fit in can be referred to as a masquerade.

Social Facade

A masquerade can be a defense mechanism to protect one's vulnerabilities.

Protective Shield

The verb form conveys deliberately misleading others as to one's identity or intentions.

Deception Tool

Often used to describe actions where someone takes on a false identity for a specific reason.

Undercover Actions

Implies sneaky behavior with negative connotations, like a trick or scheme.

Sneaky Behavior

 if he was a realist masquerading as an idealist or an idealist masquerading as a realist, as people always wondered about Bobby Kennedy and John Kennedy in that way. What he was was a decathlete of nation-building, of problem-solving, of troubleshooting in the world's worst places and in the world's most broken places.

Samantha Power: Shaking...

 We are expanding the spectrum of gender and sexuality, imagining ourselves into existence, imagining a world where gender is self-determined and not imposed, and where who we are is a kaleidoscope of possibility without the narrow-minded limitations masquerading as science or justice.

A queer vision of love...

 And the lower that your quality of sleep is, the higher your risk of death. People who have poor quality of sleep will typically try to sleep longer; they'll try to stay in bed longer to overcome that poor quality of sleep. It may be poor quality of sleep masquerading as long sleep

How much sleep do you...

 And they said, "Don't be stupid." See, they asked me what I wanted to be, then told me what not to be. And I wasn't the only one. We were being told that we somehow must become what we are not, sacrificing what we are to inherit the masquerade of what we will be.

"To This Day" ... for...

 Male tunnelers sport a spectacular array of horns to fight each other for control of these tunnels, which they then defend until the female’s laid her egg. Some male tunnelers avoid the fray by masquerading as hornless females

Why isn't the world...

 precisely the same signature scent as particular insect species. This matching scent allows them to attract male pollinators who fall over and over again for the flowers masquerading as females of their own species.

The sexual deception of...

 the city and currently host a masquerade ball and parade that falls on the next to the last weekend of carnival season the cruise captain does not publicly reveal his identity he says it isn't about secrecy i wear

Celebrating Mardi Gras...

 masquerading as nouns, verbs and adjectives that alter their meanings entirely. This seeming superpower is called lexical ambiguity. It can turn words and sentences into mazes that mess with our minds.

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 audience for nights to come and I started this talk tonight thinking about why the circus and the carnivalesque and magic and masquerade are forms which are

Emily Ainsworth: Inside...

 masquerade is a patch of the culture it is the voice of our ancestors we tell the truth beyond that as a morale chatter which they keep the secrecy and