Going through the motions?

Usage examples of charade.

Looking hastily about the darkened room to see if any newsmen had witnessed the sexual charade, he was relieved to find that all of them were absent, attending a briefing at the Cape regarding the impending second Gemini shot in which the popular Edward White was going to walk in space.

Bulletins from Party Headquarters are spelled out in obscene charades by hebephrenics and Latahs and apes, Sollubis fart code, Negroes open and shut mouth to Hash messages on gold teeth, Arab rioters send smoke signals by throwing great buttery eunuchs -- they make the best smoke, hangs black and shit-solid in the air -- onto gasoline fires in a rubbish heap, mosaic of melodies, sad Panpipes of humpbacked beggar, cold wind sweeps down from post card of Chimborazzi, flutes of Ramadan, piano music down a windy street, mutilated police calls, advertising leaflet synchronize with street fight spell SOS.

A moment of clear and complete knowledge of what we think we are, but in fact are not, puts a stop, for the moment, to the Manichean charade.

Yet the manticora was bearing up with grace, and playing the game of charades and costumes.

It was getting time for the airships to join them when Sands called the charade off.

Hu Shih immediately protested but their arguments, embellished with violent gestures and charades, had run into the language barrier.

As Jerry opened the outer cover of the sterile packaging holding a transvenous pacemaker electrode, he wished he had never begun the charade.

Captain Gul and his military advisors saw did not impress them, but they kept up their charade, thinking it would be a simple exercise to establish their fortresses and clamp down on any resistance.

And sometimes, more overtly sexual charades involving the hiring of prostitutes and the testing of their personal tolerances.

He was in as much danger of getting shot for a spy as Mard if Sanchez caught on to their charade.

She'd been present a hundred times at confrontations like this, watching clever men who worked hard to be underestimated, even dressed for the part as Toomey was dressed, perform with supposed fumbling awkwardness until a suspect made the one, damning incriminating mistake: had even played her part in such a charade.

Kirk said in an iron voice, "we will not go along with these charades any longer!

Ade was right: Barencoin was very funny with a few drinks inside him and the charades degenerated into the kind of vulgar mime session that felt just like being back at the police social club, all raucous laughter and barracking.

But because he, too, could think as well as feel, he realized that if she was prey to the same jealousy that gripped him, he would have to be very careful during his charade with Roelstra's daughters or there would be bruised princesses.

Simon thought, "if he doesn't know more about at least some of this charade than I do, I will devote the rest of my life to curling the hair on eels.