Sentence examples for a pretence of from inspiring English sources

What one cannot do is simultaneously keep up a pretence of humanitarianism.

The number of African leaders who can eschew even a pretence of democracy is shrinking.

Van Marwijk's opposite number did not make a pretence of modesty.

With no need to even make a pretence of cleaning up after themselves.

It is a show, a token, a pretence of a strut on the world stage.

Both teams continually played poor shots into the net, without even a pretence of trying their hardest.

There was never going to be any pretence of a contest after that and United had a second goal in six minutes.

They have long since cast aside any pretence of a political struggle.

Perhaps it is wise to abandon all pretence of a fashion soul and just produce nice clothes.

Mourinho has not gone through any pretence of a make-believe injury, as so often happens, and it would be interesting to see how the past couple of weeks might influence a vote in the England dressing-room.

So they created their own world, an imperfect pretence of a perfect world.