Sentence examples for Maintain a pretense from inspiring English sources

But unlike those movies "Adoration," Mr. Egoyan's finest film since "The Sweet Hereafter" (1997), doesn't strain to maintain a pretense of naturalism.

They said he helped the White House maintain a pretense of cooperation while actually withholding evidence from the special prosecutor, Leon Jaworski, and the House Judiciary Committee.

The strategy in Nixon's "Southern Strategy," of course, was to maintain a pretense of deniability while ascending to the White House on a current of racism.

The U.S. embassy in Phnom Penh in a 2007 cable titled Cambodia's Top Ten Tycoons--released by WikiLeaks--explained how the prime minister bridged political and private sectors, and maintained a pretense of civil society, by cultivating relationships with the country's most prominent tycoons.

And it took away any lingering pressure to maintain a financial facade: pretense is a good way to stay in debt.

(3) The academic basis of the faith Mill's belief in the marketplace of ideas, the no tion that real intellectual neu trality can be maintained — is shown to be a pretense when universities supply government with weapons research and pro fessors supply Presidents with formulas for aggression in Indo china.

Supposedly we were fighting for God but, of course, as you may guess, this was mostly a pretense for maintaining a status quo, hence the power of white men.

I think all teams will have pretty many good players, and they will be able to maintain the good level they have at present". They no longer maintain their team as a unit--Bykov and Khomutov play in Switzerland--and they no longer maintain the pretense of fielding a team of amateurs.

Some of these casual courses are actually pretty well maintained; others don't bother to make even a pretense of grooming.

Corker's theory, which he tweeted out, was that "someone obviously missed their shift this morning" — someone, that is, who was supposed to monitor Trump's behavior, and help the Republican Party maintain the pretense that he was a fit President.

"We can't maintain the pretense that Trump is a sane and balanced adult, however much we'd like to," says Andrew Sullivan.