How To Use Potemkin In A Sentence
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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
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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
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Now, there's a 21st century twist on the Potemkin village: Potemkin refugee camps!
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Potemkin was a monster to be remembered among the many who ill-served the tsardom through the centuries.
John Paul Jones
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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
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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
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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."
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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?
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Potemkin was looking for talented engineers, shipbuilders, entrepreneurs and Englishmen: Samuel was all of these things.
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That's all his Government is - a sham Potemkin wrapper around a core of incompetent cronyism.
09/07/2005
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Werner Schroeter stages a Wagner opera featuring the "rebirth of Tristan in the spirit of battleship Potemkin", philosopher Peter Sloterdijk talks about Ovid and the metamorphosis of added value, a man at the piano analyses the score of a strike song while workers and factory owners face off in an opera by Luigi Nono, the poet Dürs Grünbein interprets Bert Brecht's aesthetisation of the Communist manifesto in swinging oceanic hexameter, cultural scientist
Signandsight.com
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The installation moves from harrowing recordings of emergency calls at the time of the tragedy to lovely images of Beijing-born master calligrapher Gong Fagen at work; there are ghost stories, reconstructions of pre-war Shanghai movies, and flickering images of Pudong, the Shanghai district that has become China's hub of crony capitalism (one economist recently described Shanghai as "the world's most successful Potemkin metropolis" – meaning there is little behind the moneyed facade).
Isaac Julien's angel of Morecambe
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The younger brother of the Battleship Potemkin has found a small round in his aging revolutionary magazine and fired it off with great jollity.
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Eisenstein:Soviet filmmaker considered among the most influential directors in the history of motion pictures. His films include Potemkin (1925) and alexander Nevsky (1938), his first film with sound.
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Topping the bill are free screenings at some of SE15's most attractive locations: Harold Lloyd's Safety Last and Ealing comedy The Ladykillers in Nunhead Cemetery; Baraka in a local nature garden; and Battleship Potemkin on top a multi-storey car park with pop-up bar and a great view of the city.
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