Sentence examples for a good pretense from inspiring English sources

Mustering her formidable dignity, Ms. Deneuve puts on a good pretense of imagining herself in a stately period piece.

But her talent has been a good pretense for people who don't pay much attention to jazz to marvel at its bright new hope.

You'd think that members of Congress who make a fetish out of criticizing the agency for its failure to adequately assess the economic impact of its rules would be more concerned that the Commission didn't even put up a good pretense of assessing this particular rule's economic consequences.

Although the good pretense eludes them from being detected in time domain, the existent energy exposes them in frequency domain.

"Part of why I come is to meet other young Catholics under good pretenses," Ms. Sciuto, a customer service representative, said.

"That's why the cops in Ireland don't carry guns," offered Paul Houlihan, the bartender from County Longford who pours a good drink without pretense.

A good therapist has no pretense, no masks to wear.

Skinheads are known to make a good, honest living without pretense.

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

"How do we know that people who don't have good liens aren't getting public money essentially under the false pretense that they have a good lien?" Silvers asked Caldwell.

Which is why this could be a good time, as Gladwell smartly hinted, to question our pretense of control.