Sentence examples for * pretence in from inspiring English sources
"There was never any pretence in her voice.
The Obama administration made little pretence in recent years that it believed Cuba was supporting terrorism.
They take joy in the simple, and see through pretence in a second.
He kept up the pretence in a series of emails and telephone calls with Vincent.
The idea was not to have any pretence in these pictures and be very straightforward".
And who better to hurl a few pages of pretence in the Nymphomaniac star's general direction than Professor James Franco.
However, if proposing that a believed-false proposition become common ground can mean engaging in and sustaining a "pretence," possibly in order to communicate truths, then it is not clear that this counts as making an assertion.
The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States.
They have abandoned any pretence of isolationism in foreign policy for a doctrine of pre-emptive war.
Of course, I'm aware that by this stage I've blown even the pretence of objectivity in this review.
At first the intention seems plain: as on their previous three albums, there is no pretence of fitting in.
