Sentence examples for * pretense in from inspiring English sources

There was no pretense in that charge.

There is no pretense in "Deadwood".

He's just a simple country boy with no sham or pretense in him".

There is no pretense in the Bulls' brutal ballet of defense.

But keeping up the pretense, in the face of Biles's overwhelming talent, eventually became too difficult.

"One cannot but feel the empty sham of pretense in such a service," he scribbled in neat, even script.

Others have argued that familiar notions of belief, desire, and pretense can in fact explain what notions like alief are meant to elucidate (Egan 2011; Kwong 2012; Mandelbaum 2013).

(A very Stanwyckian destination; she went there, under false pretenses, in both "Christmas in Connecticut" and "The Lady Eve").

He deduced two options: "The opera should take possession of the supernatural or unnatural as its only proper sphere of representation and feeling, and should create a pretense world in such a way that life is reflected in either a magic or a comic mirror".

Now that it has all but disappeared, why does the pretense remain in place that there's anything going on except a display (amazing, brilliant, stupefying) of pure prowess?

When they testified together before the 9/11 Commission, W. and Cheney kept up a pretense that in a previous call, the president had authorized the vice president to give a shoot-down order if needed.