Sentence examples for a pretence to from inspiring English sources

Sometimes, there's a pretence to loftiness – these are arguments about truth and beauty, honest!

In the parallel passage (EU, 8.26/96 97), he again objects to any effort to refute a hypothesis "by a pretence to its dangerous consequences to religion and morality" (my emphasis).

This caveat notwithstanding, such limitations of statistical power should not be used as a pretence to ignore the potential implications of the newly reported measurements of PC.

But this seems to open More up to another charge, namely that he has abandoned any pretence to a natural philosophy, seeking to explain phenomena in terms of secondary causation, and simply defers all things to the direct action of God.

The following year, the bill was revived, but Anne withheld support, fearing its reintroduction was a deliberate pretence to cause a quarrel between the two main political groups: the Tories (who supported the bill) and the Whigs (who opposed it).

There has been a pretence of trying to return to business as usual and certainly Australia's practice sessions have been boisterous but the start of the Test on Monday night will be another matter.

What I can't take seriously is Pippin's pretence to be a comment on life.

Its pretence to be a computer company was going badly: sales of the Pixar Image Computer were slow.

But it was his pretence to be a millionaire art buyer that finally led to jail for the conman when he attempted to swindle the auctioneers Christie's out of more than £1m worth of French masterpieces.

Gulliver found the sight of "a Politician, a Whoremonger, a Traitor" just about bearable, because they made no pretence to be other than Yahoos.

"It is a highly constructed environment but the pretence to the viewer is that it isn't".