Smoke and mirrors

Usage examples of fakery.

I have an idea that the Greeks and Romans misunderstood the methods of the Egyptians, by suspecting fakery, and copying it, though it did not exist.

The canned laughter of TV comedy shows is one variety of faked data of this sort, but there is a great deal more, and much of the fakery is strikingly obvious.

Images were all fakery and manipulation cobbled together by the evil gnomes of Ogle Data Research, who had their secret headquarters just a short distance away, in the mysterious place called Pentagon Towers.

The stories, similarly, are mannered, stylized, adamantly nonrealistic, with a strong sense of game-playing, fakery and sleight-of-hand.

It is curious how that principle of affinity works - without any of the fakery of the old 'divining rods' back home.

But now an explosion had occurred which made all other explosions, even of the greatest fakeries, seem like a snap of the fingers.