| 单词 | Potemkin village |
| 例句 | As Arnold grouses, with considerable justification, Feld’s environment is like a Potemkin village of wooden shutters and seafront cuteness, with inflated restaurant prices to match. Pick of the week: Couples therapy with Meryl and Tommy Lee 2012-08-10T00:00:00Z The town has been compared to a Potemkin village, to Brigadoon, to a “feudal Disneyland” and to the town in the movie “The Truman Show.” In the Footsteps of Charles III 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z If Pyongyang embodies the architect’s dream of a model city, its facades are also suggestive of a Potemkin village. Review | A rare glimpse of North Korea 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z For decades, beginning in 1965, these two Lilliputians — Ceausescu hovered in the vicinity of 5 foot 5 — ruled a country that they turned into a projection of their self-mythologizing, a Potemkin village for two. | 'The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu': ?Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu,? by Andrei Ujica - Review 2011-09-08T23:07:41Z Mr. McConnell suggested the program was a “profoundly tone-deaf” idea to create amid high inflation and compared the program to a Potemkin village designed to deceive American taxpayers. McConnell slams Biden Climate Corps as ‘taxpayer-funded pipeline’ to turn activists into bureaucrats 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z "All the lies and propaganda, the talk of 'special operations' and swift victories - all that was just a facade, like a Potemkin village." Germany's Scholz blasts Putin's 'scorched earth' tactics, warns on gas price cap 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z One team encountered a Potemkin village of Russian hardware, officials said, with dozens of parked tanks accompanied by a small security detail. Russia’s spies misread Ukraine and misled Kremlin as war loomed But behind the walls of the Democratic Party's Potemkin village stands the billionaire class. Jesus, endless war and the irresistible rise of American fascism 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z Without vast oil reserves, the Russian economy would hardly exist and Russia’s Potemkin village of a government is really a kleptocratic police state dominated by a single cruel tyrant with delusions of grandeur. Hitting Putin where it hurts 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Robinson, who said in an interview that he was fired earlier this year, concluded that the site was a “Potemkin village.” Goldman Sachs, Ozy Media and a $40 Million Conference Call Gone Wrong 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z Historians have cast doubt on the tale, but the term “Potemkin village” has lived on, coming to mean a false front intended to impress the gullible. Column: Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley are torching the Constitution to further their own presidential ambitions 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z Three diplomats from the European Union visited Xinjiang’s capital, Urumqi, this year in what one of the participants said turned out to be a “Potemkin village tour.” China Wants the World to Stay Silent on Muslim Camps. It’s Succeeding. 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z I quickly grew tired of hearing the same conversation played on a very short loop, which reinforced the feeling that was I was standing in a Potemkin village. Review | ‘Tom Clancy’s The Division 2’ is a fun place to visit but you won’t want to live there 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Tony Nash, managing partner at economic forecasting firm Complete Intelligence with deep experience in China, called the Beijing government’s official figures “a Potemkin village, simply presented for the impression.” Trump trade war slows China economy growth 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Where some see a miracle of rebirth, others see an oppressive surveillance state, a Potemkin village destined for eventual collapse. Rwanda’s Khashoggi: who killed the exiled spy chief? 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z He told me that foreigners were shown a Potemkin village when they visited. Is One of Africa’s Oldest Conflicts Finally Nearing Its End? 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z On a drive just beyond the city limits, Buenos Aires seems a Potemkin village. Perspective | An Italian car of a country, Argentina looks great but just doesn’t work 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z Visitors and cameras paraded through what had become a Potemkin village. Louisiana School Made Headlines for Sending Black Kids to Elite Colleges. Here’s the Reality. 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Instead of a global village, as Marshall McLuhan prophesied, we are presented with a digital Potemkin village, a constructed sham, where sharing and being social is secondary to numerical proof of social interactions. The ruthless pursuit of online “likes” gives you nothing 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Jamison Carter’s new sculptures are like stage sets for splendor, together forming a Potemkin village of triumphal bliss. Jamison Carter's sculptures: Like a carpenter's guide to the cosmos, or earthbound explosions of space 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z It is only a matter of time before the reality behind this statistical Potemkin village called CompStat will drive working taxpayers out of our City. Crime in New York City Plunges to a Level Not Seen Since the 1950s 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z If we are diplomats, we represent merely a Potemkin village. How dare you call us diplomats 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z In another country, which Trump rather admires, you’d call this a Potemkin village. Trump’s lies are delusional. But the dangers they pose are now very real | Richard Wolffe 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z But there is no confusion that money motivated the thieves who created this Potemkin village of online advertising. Daily Report: Using Fake Users and Sites to Steal Real Money 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Indeed, most of the residents in the Potemkin village of climate change denial receive or have received Koch funding. Deniers club: Meet the people clouding the climate change debate 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z These may all be part of a Potemkin village, but they nonetheless underscore the fact that in North Korea, poverty is no longer equally shared. North Korea’s one-percenters savor life in ‘Pyonghattan’ 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z Steven P. Perskie, former chairman of the Casino Control Commission and a former state Democratic lawmaker, called it a “Potemkin village.” Trump’s bad bet: How too much debt drove his biggest casino aground 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z Most Chinese see Taiwanese democracy as a joke; a Potemkin village the American put on to show "democracy". China Largely Shrugs at Shake-Up After Taiwan Elections 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z Even so, Russia’s aviation is “often painted in the West as some sort of Potemkin village, which is not the case.” Russian Military Uses Syria as Proving Ground, and West Takes Notice 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z The French have responded by cracking down on Uber and setting up a Potemkin village retraining system whereby the unemployed work for fake companies at fake jobs. Uber mows down Bill de Blasio 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z The convicts’ children were visiting their dads, uncles and brothers at a Potemkin village carnival set up just for them, pony rides and all. Inspiring prison doctor helps a giant health-care firm lobby for jail contract 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z And the capital is often described as a large Potemkin village, an elaborate stage set designed to fool outsiders into believing that North Korea is as rich and powerful as its propaganda claims. A North Korea Watcher Watches "The Interview" 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z They may be creating a Potemkin village to impress the developed countries with which they hope to expand trade ties, such as the United States. Strange Chinese Appetites Driving Wildlife Toward Extinction 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Pyongyang, always a showcase city, has become even more of a Potemkin village. North Korea’s capital, with its water parks and new buildings, coddles the elite Friedman, who’s suing the recruiter who hooked him up with the firm, alleges in the complaint that, “Palladyne was the asset management company equivalent of a Potemkin village, fronting for a kickback and money-laundering scheme.” How Libya Blew Billions and Its Best Chance at Democracy 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z More and more faith is being put into the idea that the Silicon Valley’s Potemkin village will be the new powerhouse of the US economy. Uber's $18 bn valuation is just another fantasy marketed by Silicon Valley 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z What he got was a supporting role in Russia’s gay Potemkin village. Inside Sochi's Only Gay Nightclub 2014-02-12T16:35:27Z Accordingly, NBC erected its own Potemkin village for the Olympic coverage. The TV Watch: Little Bit of ‘Fantasia’ as NBC Begins Olympic Show 2014-02-08T04:07:48Z What Mrs. Clinton witnessed on Thursday was not a Potemkin village by any stretch. Smiles Hide Fears as Clinton Visits Flood Victims 2011-11-17T15:11:28Z In essence, Dongtan is a would-be environmental Potemkin village that never was built. Can China House Its Booming Urban Class in an Environmentally Responsible Way? 2011-08-22T13:45:05.073Z He was polite about the modernization program put forward by President Dmitri A. Medvedev, but said Russia needed industrial revitalization, not “another Potemkin village.” Owner of N.J. Nets Raises Profile in Russian Politics 2011-08-11T17:08:13Z We should not be glad of the fact that we visited this prison and they showed us a Potemkin village, and everyone patted each other on the back and said how wonderful things are. Are Russian Human Rights on the Back-Burner for the U.S.? 2010-06-05T02:50:00Z Hong Kong is no Potemkin village, but it also isn't a city on a hill. Is Hong Kong Getting Any Closer to Real Democracy? 2010-03-11T10:20:00Z “United Russia behaves horrendously in Kaliningrad, raising taxes in the middle of a crisis, failing to lobby the interests of the region in Moscow, while building a Potemkin village here.” 2010-02-02T20:29:00Z |
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