Potemkin

How To Use Potemkin In A Sentence

• Her "Potemkin villages" had deceived the self-important pundit into endorsing absolutism, just as Jean-Paul Sartre would prove vain enough to applaud Stalin. Why They All Came to Versailles
• We, however, are stuck with Khrushchev, as we already were with Potemkin and Budenny, which ought to be Potyomkin and Budyonny. The Strange Case of Pushkin and Nabokov
• Now, there's a 21st century twist on the Potemkin village: Potemkin refugee camps!
• Potemkin was a monster to be remembered among the many who ill-served the tsardom through the centuries. John Paul Jones
• Some congressmen, however, including quite a few Democrats, went privately to Nicaragua, did their homework and independent digging, talked to the people, and discovered the truth: that what was being offered to the congressmen on the government’s guided tours was a trip past a Potemkin village—a false-fronted democracy, all illusion and no substance—and these congressmen would vote with us on Contra aid. An American Life
• A Potemkin village is "something that appears elaborate and impressive but in actual fact lacks substance. Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: Feed Them and Bleed Them
• The Cedar Revolution in Lebanon is revealed as a Potemkin village because the real power is Hezbollah - further "legitimized" by the democratic vote. "This defeat is actually an obvious victory for the Iranian nation."
• Other sceptics contrarily deride the megaprojects in Tianjin as Potemkin eco-showcases that mask a broader trend of waste and environmental destruction. Can the sea solve China's water crisis?
• Potemkin was looking for talented engineers, shipbuilders, entrepreneurs and Englishmen: Samuel was all of these things.
• That's all his Government is - a sham Potemkin wrapper around a core of incompetent cronyism. 09/07/2005