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Synonyms: forgery, counterfeit, copy, sham, fraud, hoax, imitation, mock-up, dummy, reproduction, lookalike, likeness, charlatan, quack, mountebank, humbug, impostor, pretender, masquerader, hoodwinker, hoaxer, cheat, cheater, deceiver, dissembler, trickster, confidence trickster, fraudster, forged, fraudulent, false, bogus, spurious, pseudo, artificial, synthetic, simulated, replica, ersatz, plastic, man-made, mock, so-called, feigned, faked, put-on, assumed, improvised, invented, affected, insincere, unconvincing, forge, falsify, feign, mock up, reproduce, replicate, pretend, simulate, put on, make-believe, affect

Antonyms: genuine, authentic, true, real, sincere, honest, actual, legitimate, veritable, natural, heartfelt, candid, bona fide, frank, truthful, unfeigned, straightforward, unaffected, valid, factual, original, open, literal, artless, pure, proper

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1. Whose Life Is It Anyway?

Drama

Sarah Walton Miller

... college - TEACHER: Mr. Horton, don’t you see that James is not college material? Now there are other schools, special schools - FATHER: [angrily] My son is going to a COLLEGE and then to LAW school! TEACHER: [pleading] What’s to become of his unique abilities, his inventive brain? Mr. Horton, don’t you know James is quite extraordinary in his OWN way? It has nothing to do with making grades in English or math or history. FATHER: I WILL NOT have my son a - a LABORER! In this town our family has always ...

2. Gifts of Lent VI: The Thief Who Gave Nothing

Luke 23:26-43

Drama

Donald Neidigk

... all. Within minutes, I was hoisted up, my cross beam fastened into position. There was no escape from the agony. Pushing against the foot rest brought some relief from the pain in my wrists, but doing so seemed only to prolong the ordeal. What monster had invented this instrument of suffering? All about me a tragic drama was being played out, a drama in which even I had become a willing participant. In one corner of the stage were soldiers throwing dice, gambling for the clothes of a dying king. In another ...

3. Mary: After The Angel

Drama

Arlys M. Winkler

... ) Deborah! MARY: No, no, that's all right. It's an honest question. I'll give you an honest answer. (She pauses and swallows, hard.) The Holy Spirit. (All three girls look incredulous.) DEBORAH: (Laughs) Mary, you're going to have to invent a better story than that. No one will believe you. JUDITH: The Holy Spirit ... Oh, sure. Right. (Sarcastically) Everyone will believe that. ESTHER: Girls, girls, give her a chance to explain. (They wait, expectantly.) MARY: It gets even more unbelievable. ESTHER: What ...

4. The Tinsel Time Machine

Drama

Edward Long

... know that. You've told us that story before. But I'm still disappointed. TOM: I know there've been rough times at Christmas through the years. But I wish I could be sure people really did find the Christmas meaning in spite of everything. TINA: Maybe someday Lenny will invent a time machine and she can take us back to see ... MRS. RANDALL: Listen, everybody: it's eleven o'clock, and if we're going to the Christmas sunrise service, we'd all best get on to bed. TOM: Mom, I don't know if I want to go ... to ...

5. The Bridge

John 1:1-18, Matthew 2:1-12, Luke 2:8-20, Luke 2:1-7, Luke 1:26-38, Genesis 3:1-24

Drama

H. J. Hizer

... One: Ahhhh -- Lord -- Raphael here said something about "keeping a promise." I hope you haven't made any promises. Five: Well, as a matter of fact, I have made a few promises. Four: I hope you haven't promised them TV dinners, Lord. TV dinners won't be invented for almost two thousand years. Five: No -- no TV dinners -- but I did promise my people a land of milk and honey. Two: Land -- what a relief -- I thought you'd promised them the moon! Five: Well -- I thought about it. Three: Land is O.K., Lord -- the ...

6. THE RECEPTIONIST

Drama

Jerome W. Nilssen

... a man will not work, let him eat cake." SETH What was that one? GRACE Didn’t I get it right? SETH I don’t think my brother put it that way. GRACE He sounds like a very precise person. SETH The last I heard he was an inventor. He invented an Automatic-Instant meat pulverizer. We read about it in the newspaper. He got his hand caught in it, and it chewed his arm off, right up to the elbow. GRACE At least it worked. SETH But that’s the point - everything my brother makes works, even his mistakes. The ...

7. Demon Drop

Mark 1:21-28

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... Prince. I am a leader of demons. I am the thirty-third rank, my prince. I have had all the training of the secret society of the holy scrolls and can quote any passage from any place in them and coordinate them with any common superstition or craft of human invention. DARK LORD: I see. Then why did you make such a ridiculous mistake as to call out the title of -- of -- that one? NIGITH: I have done my job well for the past twenty years with my human, my Prince. I admit I made a small mistake but I not ...

8. Luther of Wittenberg

Drama

Michael L. Sherer

... of it, the argument is sure to have a far more lasting impact. I have come to believe that the church concerns ordinary people more than religious experts. So maybe getting the theses out was the appropriate result. I can’t take credit for it. I didn’t invent the printing press. And I didn’t slip a copy of my manuscript to a printer. Thank my friends for that. Now that you have moved to Frankfurt and set up your law practice, I hope you won’t forget your former classmate. We have taken different ...

9. A Discussion Among Angels

Matthew 24:36-44

Drama

Matthew Powell

... he was riding his donkey to meet the king of Moab? And did not even the dumb beast profit more from your instruction than the man who rode him? Who was it who was called the wisest of all men, having searched out and understood the many inventions that are found under the sun? But was not Solomon unable by much learning to escape weariness and despair of the spirit? Knowledge also is vanity and vexation. This I know well because I have dwelt among humans and have held conversations with them since the day ...

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